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| Improving the Life of Your Family Member is Our First Priority |
Our dedicated team of experts has taken great care to develop a revolutionary communication system that allows nurses to safely order, dispense and administer medications to patients within minutes of receiving a doctor’s order. PharmCom IIsm, our virtual pharmacist, is provided to each nursing station to help improve the quality and safety of patient care, increase the accuracy of communications, add efficiency for nurses, physicians and pharmacists, and provide new tools to help reduce pharmacy costs.
How PharmCom IIsm Works:
Imagine what would happen if your loved one needed an emergency medication. A nursing home equipped with PharmCom IIsm would be able to respond immediately. A nurse would use a web portal to transmit the prescription order to our pharmacy in Nashville. Pharmacists would verify the order and quickly transmit their approval. Within minutes, a nurse would use an “in-house pharmacy” unit to dispense the needed medication.
An Improved Process = Lower Number of Medication Errors = Improved Patient Safety
It’s almost impossible for a nurse to make a medication error using our fail-safe, pharmacist-supervised system.
How NuScriptRX Reduces Waste:
Studies show that the quick turnaround in the filling of prescriptions lowers costs by substantially reducing waste.
Most institutional pharmacies ship a 30-day supply of medications. During that time, there are frequent order changes and/or the discharges or deaths of patients. The waste and returns are staggering, contributing to higher costs for patients, families, facilities, insurance companies, and taxpayers.
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists reports that an estimated 5 to 15 percent of prescribed drugs are never consumed. These wasted, diverted, re-stocked or destroyed medications represent a loss of $5 billion in skilled nursing facilities alone.
New Packaging Process = Reduced Waste = Reduced Costs
NuScriptRX pharmacists prepare regular prescriptions for same-day or overnight delivery. They use a packaging process that labels wrapped medication packets with the patient’s name, the med pass time, the drug’s name and description, and a corresponding bar code. The packets, which are very easy to open, are delivered to your loved one in lighter, newly designed smart carts. Medications are packaged in the order they will be given to patients, greatly speeding up the process. They replace the disposable cups that nursing homes have used for the past 20 years.
Patients and Family Education:
But PharmComsm doesn’t stop there. The system is loaded with invaluable information that can be provided to patients and families at a moment’s notice.
Informed Customers = Improved Confidence = Happier Patient
Here are just a few of the helpful facts nurses have downloaded for their customers:
- Did you know that MEDMARX, a national medication error reporting program, discovered 80,168 incidences of geriatric-related medication errors from Jan. 1, 2002 through Dec. 31, 2003. Some 2,673 or 3.3 percent of those caused some level of patient harm.
- Did you know that the most common reported products involving patient harm were heparin, insulin, morphine sulfate, potassium chloride, and warfarin?
- Did you know that most of the errors were caused by poor performance or limited knowledge; failure to follow procedures or protocols; or difficulties with communication, transcription, other documentation, or computer entry?
- Did you know that most medical errors can be prevented by establishing a systems-oriented approach to patient safety (like PharmCom IIsm), and by creating a safer environment that supports an open dialogue about errors, their causes, and strategies for prevention?
Patients and families also can obtain information about a patient’s diagnosis, potential treatments, specific medications, and health care options. The information is available 24 hours a day.
“The response from nurses, patients and their families has been phenomenal,” said Dick Wager, Founder & President of NuScriptRX “NuScriptRX service model was created to solve the shortfalls of today’s institutional pharmacies and to achieve a breakthrough in service. Out goal is to save lives and make patients and families have complete confidence in the professionals who serve them.”
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