White Paper: The 3 Ps of Medication Management

Medication management is a strategy for engaging with patients and caregivers to create and maintain accurate medication records, and ensure medications are administered in a timely, safe, and precise manner. Medication management processes are driven by expert care teams (people), guided by the goals of the facility (places), and enabled by advanced equipment (products). In this white paper, we will explore the elements of medication management from the focal points of these three ‘p’s—people, places, and products. 

Successfully managing medication takes precision, but also must allow care teams to respond to patient symptoms, vitals, and other indications. This white paper will illustrate how medication management workflows can be supported using advanced equipment and software, such as automated dispensing cabinets, pre-staged medication delivery carts, and the medLogic™ software platform. We will also discuss benefits to care teams in specialized facilities like rehabs, hospice centers, and long-term care facilities, and how improved medication management workflows promote patient well-being.

Introduction

Medication management is one of the fundamental drivers of exceptional patient care. When medications are given as prescribed, they have the power to save, transform and sustain life. Healthcare facilities have taken a proactive and modern approach to improving their medication management lifecycle. Through the adoption of medication management technologies that are tailored to their needs, healthcare facilities have taken a step towards optimizing the time of their care teams. In turn this allows care teams to focus more on patient management.

Facilities—and the professionals who run them—have highly specialized processes based on the aims of the facility itself. Medication management products and technologies that need to integrate into these specialized processes must be robust enough to allow for use within a variety of workflows. These workflows are the confluence of the major factors that dictate the execution of medication management. When each factor—people, places, and products—are properly understood and supported, the medication management process thrives and the patients benefit. Read more >