WellSky’s medicine management solutions are helping hospitals and clinics across the world to prescribe and manage their medication use, says CEO Rob Blay
Medicines often represent the most expensive part of a patient’s care, and must be managed, prescribed and administered safely to maximise the effectiveness of the resource. WellSky is dedicated to providing medicines management solutions to hospitals across the world to optimise patient healthcare outcomes. Their solutions are present in more than 250 hospitals, with locations in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The platform itself draws upon decades of domain expertise and puts patient safety first, while also ensuring operational efficiency and financial sustainability, which all directly contribute to how well a hospital can care for patients and staff alike.
Encompassing an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA), a pharmacy solution and a chemotherapy management solution, together WellSky’s system ensures an integrated workflow with easy links to related hospital applications such as patient record and management systems.
Proven success in South Africa
In South Africa alone, WellSky has worked to deliver an Enterprise-based pharmacy solution, which has been deployed across more than 100 facilities including hospitals and community clinics on a single, user-friendly platform to manage the procurement and supply of medicines.
“WellSky’s cancer solutions are developed in close collaboration with oncology prescribers, pharmacists, and nurses” – Rob Blay, CEO, WellSky
The primary goal of the solution at present is to develop a shared patient record which can be accessed and updated wherever the patient attends for treatment – no matter if it is their local clinic or the major hospital.
The system itself uses a concept called a ‘Locality’ to group individual facilities together within the Western Cape. Within each Locality, the system allows local configuration while sharing concepts such as drug files, procurement contracts and patient records which are common to all.
Improving chemotherapy treatment
As the premier European supplier of patient-centric, anti-cancer therapy management solutions to hospitals and to networks of hospitals, WellSky’s cancer solutions are developed in close collaboration with oncology prescribers, pharmacists, and nurses who work in university hospitals and leading specialist cancer treatment institutions across Europe.
In Norway, WellSky is the strategic partner to the south-eastern and western regional areas – serving a population of more than 2.6m. As such, WellSky have provided a full end to end chemotherapy solution allowing for the prescribing, preparation and administration of chemotherapy to patients throughout the whole process.
This single, regional chemotherapy system interfaces into to a regional EPR, Laboratory and Pharmacy Stock system, and serves more than 22 hospitals in total, and is linked to more than five chemotherapy drug production units. All these sites use a common drug reference file, national prescribing protocols and a standard paper-light workflow for chemotherapy preparation to GAMP-5 standards.
Digital solutions for prescription and medicines
In the UK, the WellSky Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration is the most widely used EPMA solution. WellSky’s EPMA forms a critical element in regional healthcare economies’ drive to improve the safety and quality of patient care.
By investing in WellSky, EPMA healthcare organisations can reduce the prescribing and administration errors that left unchecked may result in medication errors and adverse drug events; errors that cause avoidable harm and waste vital healthcare resources. Integrated seamlessly with WellSky Pharmacy and shortly chemotherapy solutions, WellSky offers a medicines management platform that allows clinicians to access patient medication details and prescribe across multiple systems with single sign on functionality.
On mobile platforms, WellSky MAPP offers a versatile suite of apps to support a wide range of hospital processes and closed loop patient management. The apps combine to deliver improved safety and operational efficiencies.
In support of the UK’s Covid-19 pandemic response, WellSky created a reporting function within its customer systems to enable daily reporting on the location and quantity of vaccine stocks, amount of vaccine administered daily and identification of vaccine wastage to the NHS.
Flexibility and standards
WellSky’s flexible and dynamic approach to healthcare challenges is facilitated by a commitment to industry standards including FHIR and HL7. WellSky offers the most complete set of solutions and services in medicines management. Today, care providers of all types and disciplines are confronting dramatic change and looking for a partner who can help them solve challenges and thrive.
WellSky is that partner.
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