PATI ENT SAFE T Y
The Autonomous Pharmacy Advsiory Board has defined the stages necessary in achieving a fully autonomous pharmacy. This board was convened in partnership with Omnicell.
The Autonomous Pharmacy vision: delivering the future of digital medication management The Autonomous Pharmacy will combat the challenges faced by pharmacists and healthcare practitioners every day while trying to deliver quality patient care. In
Automation
Solutions designed to digitise and streamline workflows
Intelligence
Actionable insights to better understand medication usage and improve pharmacy supply chain management
recent years, more and more administrative tasks have been added to the workload of healthcare providers, while the number of pharmacists and support staff has stagnated. This takes significant time away from face-to-face interaction with patients and puts pressure on the already stretched NHS. This coupled with the UK’s ageing population requiring increasingly more complex medication routines provides the perfect storm for mistakes in medication administration. With the Autonomous Pharmacy, pharmacists will be freed from time- consuming administrative responsibilities, allowing for more time spent with patients. In hospitals, care homes and at the patients’ own homes, medications will be sorted, picked, labelled and reconciled at every point of use by the technology, much reducing any risk of error. It will all be powered by a connected pharmacy cloud infrastructure which will transform the
healthcare environment by providing real- time data insights and predictive analytics. We need a co-ordinated approach from industry leaders in order for such advancements in technology to be rolled out, enabling improved clinical decisions and more face to face patient care. The evolved Autonomous Pharmacy system will be able to predict and eliminate medication errors and waste before they happen, saving lives and money. Furthermore, this technology would
allow every dose of medication to include contextual data about the destination patient, inventory, utilisation, the prescribing healthcare provider and more – all of which would be saved to the pharmacy cloud network. Healthcare providers can use the automated network to ensure that the right dose of medication is given to the right patient at the right time. This equals better health outcomes for patients and a more efficient system for staff.
Work
Expert services that serve as an extension of pharmacy operations to support improved efficiency, regulatory compliance and patient outcomes
Comprehensive medication management porfolio.
OCTOBER 2020
Industry leaders must listen and respond to the consensus from pharmacists that there should be a move towards automation; it is clear that a fully Autonomous Pharmacy would reduce medication management errors and therefore increase patient and healthcare provider safety, as well as saving valuable time and money.
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