How Triscribe helps your hospital manage drug shortages
How Triscribe helps your hospital manage drug shortages
Introducing some two new charts from Triscribe. A brief summary of the benefits and a description of what's in the box.
Since the start of the year, Triscribe has been working on some new features to enable our customers to save time and money in new areas. We have just released the first of these. Two new charts focused on managing drug shortages.
You can watch a short video about How Triscribe helps your hospital manage drug shortages here.
Why is this useful?
Measurable:
Make sure you have the right medication for your patients when they need it. Reduce the level of missed doses caused by “Medication not available.”
Avoid emergency orders and other costly ways of buying drugs. Reduce the number of emergency orders daily/ monthly.
Manage supply chain more effectively. Reduce the number and time of overdue orders.
Beyond metrics:
Reduce drug costs. Fewer emergency orders reduces costs of both drugs and delivery. Better management of stock reduces wastage. These things will contribute to reducing the overall drugs budget but the specific value is impossible to measure.
Saving time. Data about stock usage and shortages is much easier to find with Triscribe. That saves time for your staff. Your team spends that time doing other things. That leads to better patient care.
Early visibility of shortages. Triscribe gives you a complete picture of your drug stocks and compares this against actual and expected usage. That gives you early visibility of potential shortages. It helps your team take action to mitigate the impact. Placing orders on time, finding alternative suppliers or prescribing different meds. Again, impossible to put a number on the value of this.
What’s in the box?
Stock Shortages is the main chart. The chart provides a data driven view of medicines that are at risk of shortage. It does three things:
Analyses data from both Pharmacy Stock and EPMA systems.
Summarises basic information in a table that is easy to understand.
Highlights shortage risk by comparing what you have in stock with forecast usage.
Users can drill down to see more detail in two ways:
Click through items on the chart to see full details. For example, click “Issued Last Week” to see which wards the stock was sent to.
Use the filters to narrow the table down to specifics. There are two filters:
Drugs allows you to choose specific drug or drugs. You can search for drugs using Triscribe’s unique capability to search in three ways: by Generic name (based on dm+d), by Brand name, or by Stock name which is the name used in your hospital’s stock systems.
Wards allows you to select a ward or group of wards.
Stock Lookup allows you to simply pick a drug and find out the current stock and usage history for that drug. It includes a note of whether the selected drug is regularly “Stocked” or “in Use”.
The main use case is checking the impact of shortage risks. If a procurement pharmacist receives a notification of a potential shortage, they can quickly find out whether that risk has an impact for their hospital.
Find out more by watching the video here.
What’s next?
This is a new area for Triscribe. One of the most exciting things about it is getting feedback from new groups of users - procurement teams and procurement pharmacists.
They tell us Shortages is already valuable for their work. They have also given us a great list of new features to develop. Expect to see changes and improvements in the next few weeks.
In the medium term, our plan is to integrate closed loop prescribing data so we have a picture of stock on wards as well as in central stores. This will increase all the benefits listed above.
If you would like Triscribe shortages for your hospital, please get in touch. I would love to show you how Triscribe can make a difference now.
Thanks for reading.