How Pharmacies Use Technology to Enhance Pharmaceutical Care
Angus Lake Healthcare leverages modern technology to enhance pharmaceutical care in long-term care facilities. From automated compliance packaging and integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to secure digital prescribing and digital medication reviews, ALH’s tech-driven approach improves accuracy, safety, and communication across the care continuum. Facilities benefit from fewer medication errors, streamlined workflows, and improved regulatory compliance—all contributing to better resident outcomes.
Pharmacies today are doing far more than dispensing medication. With the rise of healthcare technology, pharmacy services are becoming faster, safer, and more tailored to individual patient needs—especially in long-term care settings like:
- Nursing homes
- Correctional facilities
- Youth residential homes
- Assisted living communities
At Angus Lake Healthcare (ALH), technology plays a central role in delivering compliant, efficient, and highly coordinated pharmaceutical care. From packaging and delivery to prescribing and oversight, here’s how ALH leverages technology to improve outcomes.
Streamlining Medication Management With Compliance Packaging
Medication errors in long-term care facilities can lead to serious health risks. Compliance packaging is one of the most effective ways to reduce those risks.
What is compliance packaging?
It’s a system that organizes medications by dose, date, and time—packaged into blister cards or pill packs. Each blister or pouch contains all the oral-route medications that a patient should receive during a given dosing period (morning, midday, dinnertime, bedtime, etc.).
Compliance packaging provides a number of benefits for both patients and your facility’s staff:
- Fewer medication errors
- Easier tracking of missed doses
- Streamlined medication passes
- Better adherence for residents
Angus Lake Healthcare uses advanced packaging equipment that automates the sorting and labeling process. This technology reduces manual labor, increases accuracy, and allows for fully customized medication regimens.
Connecting Systems Through EHR Integration
Long-term care residents often have complex health profiles and multiple prescribers. Without system integration, changes in medication can be delayed or miscommunicated, leading to adverse outcomes. Fortunately, technology offers several solutions to reduce the chances of an error causing a severe outcome for a patient.
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the digital backbone of modern healthcare—and when integrated with pharmacy systems, they offer powerful benefits.
EHR integrations allow for real-time medication updates and automatic syncing of patient data. By performing tasks like these automatically, a pharmaceutical integration for your facility’s EHR platform reduces the risk of transcription and communication errors and allows for faster and easier coordination between your care team and the pharmacy.
Angus Lake Healthcare integrates directly with EHR systems used by care facilities, allowing:
- Seamless data sharing
- Automated medication order processing
- Real-time alerts and status tracking
This integration ensures that your facility’s staff and our pharmacists always work from the most current information.
Improving Prescribing Accuracy with E-Prescriptions and eSCRIBE
Handwritten or faxed prescriptions are still used in some facilities—but they come with a host of problems, including illegibility, delays, and miscommunication. Digital prescribing eliminates many of these risks. When a prescription is transmitted electronically, there’s never a question of “Does that say hydroxyzine or hydrazaline?”
But the advantages of e-prescriptions don’t end there. Digital prescriptions also allow for faster transmission, automatic interaction checking, and—unlike an easily misplaced paper prescription—secure and trackable communication between physician, facility, and pharmacy.
eSCRIBE offers additional tools tailored to institutional settings:
- Medication history review
- Refill management
- Built-in documentation support
- Streamlined approval workflows
ALH works closely with providers to implement e-prescribing solutions that improve efficiency and safety, helping reduce medication errors and turnaround time.
Enhancing Oversight Through Digital Medication Reviews and Cart Inspections
Routine reviews and inspections are essential for regulatory compliance and patient safety. Without a digital platform to help manage the process, it’s easy to miss things like expired meds or incomplete documentation. That delays corrective action and opens up the chances of a medication error.
With technology, these reviews become more effective. Our tools allow us to perform comprehensive medication cart inspections and pharmacy audits, letting us provide your team with medication carts that are organized and controlled in a common-sense manner that works for your facility.
Let Angus Lake Put Technology to Work for Your Facility
Pharmaceutical care in long-term care settings is complex—but technology is making it smarter, faster, and safer. Angus Lake Healthcare leads the way by integrating advanced tools into every part of the pharmacy workflow:
- Automated compliance packaging
- Seamless EHR integration
- Secure digital prescribing
- Real-time medication oversight
With these systems in place, ALH helps facilities reduce errors, streamline care, and stay compliant—all while improving resident outcomes.
Ready to modernize your pharmacy services?
Contact Angus Lake Healthcare at 478-233-1828 to learn how a tech-forward partnership can support your facility’s goals.
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