Integrated Medication Management for Long-Term Care Homes
Improve care, operations, and medication safety for Long-Term Care home residents with integrated medication management and electronic prescribing.
🇨🇦 Available in Canada
PointClickCare’s Integrated Medication Management (IMM) provides a complete medication management solution that can connect any pharmacy dispensing system with senior care systems.
How does IMM help LTC Teams?
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Improves workflow for facility or pharmacy-initiated orders by automating ordering processes
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Ensures validated, accurate orders reducing medication errors
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Eliminates paper, fax, and reduces follow-up communications
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Reduces medication ordering and dispensing delays
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Supports barcode scanning to verify medication packs
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Provides real-time resident admissions, clinical and location status updates
Optimize Staff Resources and Ensure Quality and Safety
Increasing acuity and medication needs, with an average of 12 or more medications per resident, makes it difficult to manage daily regimens, including refills and changing medications.
Outdated manual processes force nursing staff to spend added time on follow up calls to the prescriber or pharmacy to ensure prescription orders, refills, or changes are in progress, with manual hand-offs increasing medication errors and delays.
Automating medication ordering and management and integrating with preferred pharmacy partners helps alleviate staff burden, ensure accuracy, and improve safety. This collaborative connection with the pharmacy not only makes the process smoother, but it saves time by eliminating paper, manual workflow, and resulting errors.
Integrated Medication Management users in LTC homes can expect to:
Optimize Medication Management Workflow
PointClickCare supports transmission of electronically signed prescriptions to the preferred pharmacy. Eliminate the steps required to obtain a physician’s written order, transcribe using DigiPen, enter it into the electronic health record (EHR), verify receipt of a faxed order, or call the pharmacy to check on a missing order, allowing caregivers to spend more time on resident care.
Respond Quickly to Residents’ Changing Needs
In the LTC setting, residents’ health can change rapidly. IMM ensures up-to-date information on each resident by automatically synchronizing records as clinical information evolves, allowing caregivers to better coordinate care.
Ensure Quality, Safety, and Compliance
Automation means that orders can be filled correctly the first time. Validated electronic ordering ensures that pharmacies gain the proper authority and approvals to dispense, eliminating paper, fax, and errors that stem from multiple touch points.
PointClickCare also offers supporting functionality to enable providers for multi-factor authentication processes. This ensures that only authorized prescribers can securely enter prescriptions for both controlled and non-controlled medications by electronically signing them.
*2021 Internal Data on Medication Use in PointClickCare Senior Care Facilities.
To Learn More About Integrated Medication Management:
Contact your PointClickCare Account Representative today.
