Better information to support medication safety
How Triscribe analytics and AI can support your medication safety teams
Safer use of medicines is one of the most important purposes of Triscribe analytics and AI. Our first user in a hospital is often the Medication Safety Officer. We know that safer use of medicines depends on the skill and dedication of a whole range of frontline staff. So we build tools that allow your teams to see the data they need every day. Look at key safety data by ward or patient demographic. Focus on specific groups of medicines. Analyse by day, week, month or longer.
The AI elements of Triscribe work the same way. We identify priorities based on scores derived from the real world experience of clinical staff who deal with patients every day. Our predictive analytics take account of historic usage as well as using prescriptions to estimate future activity.
Triscribe provides support for medication safety work today and we are building more for the future. Three key things:
We have extensive analysis around omitted doses of medication. Including analysis by reason based on both NHS guidelines and local hospital practice. Users can analyse the level of missed doses by drug, by ward or by administrator. Hospitals often use this data as a learning tool to identify needs for staff training and education.
Triscribe has charts that focus in key areas where safety is not just a simple given/ not given question. So we track timing of administration for Parkinson's Meds and analyse in 15 minutes intervals. And we analyse Anticholinergic Burden scores across your hospital. We aim to extend this kind of scoring and timing to other groups of medicines in the near future. For example, timing to give antimicrobials.
Earlier this year we secured funding to extend and deepen our medication safety offering. Working with two NHS hospitals, we are now engaged in a project to develop specific analytics and AI around a list of 128 key safety indicators. Like the rest of our software, we are building this from the ground up based on the needs and priorities of the frontline.
None of this delivers safer use of medicine on its own. That only happens when clinicians take our software and use it to support what they do best - give great treatment and care to patients. Find out a bit more about how Triscribe fits into real medication safety work by listening to Andy Fox at the Clinical Pharmacy Conference on 24 September.
If you think better information could help you improve medication safety, Triscribe would love to hear from you. We are also open to adding further NHS partners to our medication safety project if that is of interest.