Time savings

A typical care home will allocate over 350 hours per month of staff time to medicines management (e.g. chasing prescriptions, booking in medicines, dealing with returns and administering medications). Research carried out by Cardiff University has shown that care homes can free up an average of 65 hours per care home per month by using Atlas PCS.

Delegation of medicines administration from nurses to carers

In care homes providing nursing care, a full-time nurse is needed solely to administer medications. A study carried out by Cardiff University demonstrated that the administration of medicines can be passed safely from nurses (who have full oversight over processes using Atlas Central) to carers (using the hand-held Atlas PCS device). This frees up nurses' time and maintains the highest levels of safety and compliance.

Improved stock control

Balancing medicine stock levels is fundamental to good medicines management and plays a key part in the overall quality of service provided to residents in care homes. Atlas helps manage stock levels to avoid overstock whilst ensuring that medications don't run out. 

Optimisation of therapy

The reports available from Atlas Central help to ensure that residents' therapies are reviewed effectively. For example, the Clinical Medication Report provides a snapshot of the current status of a resident’s medicines management and can be used to prompt effective review.

Improved practice

Atlas helps enforce good practice throughout care homes. Adherence to PRN policies, stock ordering protocols, homely remedies, topical creams and controlled drugs procedures is enforced on the system, which improves compliance, and issues such as missing entries on MAR charts become a thing of the past. 

Dispensing processes tailored to your requirements

Pharmacies using Invatech products follow a strict process for dispensing medication. Each prescription is scanned into an image that can be viewed on Atlas Central. Each medication item is barcode-validated to ensure it is correctly dispensed, and every label is issued with a barcode so it can be scanned on Atlas PCS.

Choose your pharmacy

As the number of pharmacies using Invatech’s Titan system grows, you will be able to select from an increasing number of pharmacies to supply medications to your care home.

Atlas Scorecard

The Atlas Scorecard is an analytics tool designed specially for care homes, which provides a single rating for medicines management. Designed for groups that want to compare performance between services, the Atlas Scorecard takes data from Atlas PCS and allows care homes to easily drill down to identify areas of improvement.

Outstanding management information

The reports available from Atlas Central give care home managers the ability to identify staff training needs and areas of practice that need to be addressed. Senior Management can also be alerted to any of their care homes that are falling short of expected standards.

Improved outcomes

Atlas is the only system that prompts the recording of resident outcomes. Information about a resident's state of health at regular intervals is overlaid with data about medicines management to generate a true picture of a person's general health. This is a key factor in helping prevent deterioration and hospital admissions.