SinglePointe Patient Medication Management 

When hospitals implement automated medication dispensing systems, typically about 20% of medications are not easily accommodated in the automated cabinets. Examples include:

• Infrequently used medications on a nursing unit
• Patient-specific multi-use items (e.g. eye drops, creams, inhalers)
• A patient’s own medications brought from home
• Patient-specific controlled substances (e.g. morphine drip)
• Patient-specific IV admixtures
• Multi-component medication orders
• Non-formulary medications

In traditional automated systems, these items must still be handled manually, leading to time-consuming workarounds, duplicate work, missed doses for patients, and ultimately, compromised patient care.

SinglePointe breaks the 80%/20% problem by ensuring that virtually every medication needed for every patient is stored in one convenient location on the patient care unit: the automated dispensing cabinet.

SinglePointe significantly decreases missed doses and applies clinical and profile checks to all patient medications, reducing the potential for medication errors. The result? More time for patient care, better compliance with the prescribed medication therapy, and increased nursing satisfaction.

Clinical Impact of SinglePointe ¹

• Restock time decreased 50%
• Missing doses decreased 30%
• Returns/credits decreased 80%
• Potential medication errors decreased 76%

¹Based on Omnicell customer data

Customer Highlight

“Two of the advantages of SinglePointe that we’ve experienced are fewer missing doses and fewer calls to pharmacy due to the nurses’ inability to find medications that the pharmacy has already dispensed. It’s good for the nurse, it’s great for the pharmacist, and it’s great for the patient.”
 
     - Alan Knudsen, Director of Pharmacy, Shands HealthCare

• Single point of access for all patient medications, including the patient’s own medications from home.
• Profile-based access to all patient medications.
• Full safety checks on all patient medications.
• Versatile platform complements and supports current cartfill, cartless, or hybrid models of medication distribution.
• Closed-loop inventory management: a single medication management process that tracks all patient-specific medications and provides a complete audit trail to help identify and quickly resolve issues.
• Automatically assigns each patient’s medications to the automated dispensing cabinet, eliminating the manual assignment of medications to a given location.
• Option for integrated Medication Label Printer on Omnicell G4 automated dispensing cabinet enables patient-specific medications to be labeled as soon as they are removed from the cabinet, saving time and preventing errors.
• Intelligent, just-in-time restock process: Restock levels are calculated automatically based on patient medication order frequency and actual usage.
• Efficient medication transfers: The SinglePointe system knows which patients are moving to new patient areas and establishes an efficient process to remove those patients’ medications and assign them to the new cabinet during the restock process.
• Discontinued orders: The removal of discontinued medications is automated, further enhancing patient safety.
• Discharged patients: SinglePointe creates a streamlined workflow for removing and tracking medications remaining in the dispensing cabinet for patients who have been discharged. This enhances patient safety and helps to resolve potential billing discrepancies.

• Enhances patient safety and care:
• Ensures that virtually all of a patient’s medications are readily available at all times, significantly decreasing instances of missing medications.
• Medications are removed against a patient’s profiled order.
• Reduces the chances of discontinued medications being administered.
• Promotes nursing satisfaction and efficiency:
• Allows clinicians to focus on patient care instead of tracking down missing medications.
• Nurses obtain medications from one location instead of searching various areas.
• Increases pharmacy productivity and efficiency by automating time-consuming manual processes.
• Speeds availability of transfer medications.