Medicines Automation Benefits Calculator
This is a benefits calculator to help your organisation model the potential benefits which could be achieved through the implementation of key technologies to support management of medicines. It allows you to input your local data and see the potential benefits.
On the Development
It is an evidenced-based calculator, and data contained is cited from studies identifying the benefits associated with implementation of initiatives and supporting technologies. All cited studies are referenced. The calculator was also developed in collaboration with a cohort of NHS England Secondary Care Trusts, who as a working group provided feedback on the development and confirmed the calculator’s relevancy.
Coverage & Benefits of the Medicines Automation Benefits Calculator
The tool covers the following areas:
- Medicines Reconciliation – the use of technology to improve the speed and accuracy of medicines reconciliation by importing medicines information directly from other sources (e.g. previous secondary care admissions, General Practice, community pharmacy) (benefiting coverage of medicines reconciliation, and improving the ability of medicines reconciliation to prevent Adverse Drug Events (ADEs))
- Discharge – providing a comprehensive discharge in FHIR and distributing within secondary care via Integrated Care Systems (improving the ability of high quality and machine-readable discharge information to prevent ADEs)
- EPMA to Pharmacy – providing a digital means to send dispensing requests to Pharmacy from EPMA systems (improving the ability of medicines reconciliation to prevent ADEs)
- EPMA Administration Closed Loop – providing the ability to scan and reconcile the patient, prescription and administered drug at the point of administration (improving the ability of medicines reconciliation to prevent ADEs)
- Ward Stock Control – providing the ability to audit stock at ward level, supporting governance over use, and providing inventory control (benefiting stock holding and re-supply)
- Pharmacy Stock Scanning – providing the ability to enable all stock movements to be completed by barcode scan (benefiting stock holding and re-supply
- EPS (Electronic Prescription Service) – providing the ability to send secondary care outpatient prescriptions to community pharmacy for dispensing (benefiting service quality, cost savings)
Use the Medicines Automation Benefits Calculator
*Please note these benefits are not guaranteed. They are a prediction based on various assumptions, internal testing and clinical insight, which is refined with our customers as we progress in partnership on their digital transformation journey with System C. The illustrated values are also based on thorough adoption of the software solution.