MedsCheck Services
August 27, 2012
Medicine Use Review (MUR) or
MedsCheck/Diabetes MedsCheck
services are now available in
Australian pharmacies.
UK, Canada and NZ have
reported great success, with 80%
of the patients who took part in
the first audit of MURs in UK
stating their knowledge on
medicines and how to use them
had improved because of an MUR.
These services became available
as of July 2012.
MedsCheck services are an
in-pharmacy review of patients
who are taking multiple
medications and/or have newly
diagnosed or poorly controlled
type 2 diabetes.
These services are aimed at
improving the quality use of
medicines and reducing the
number of adverse drug events
experienced by patients.
GuildCare launched its
MedsCheck module in July 2012
with an outstanding number of
pharmacy registrations and
program adoption to date.
GuildCare’s module has seamless
integration with dispensing
software, patient data is prepopulated
from dispense, with
software prompting pharmacist for
patients who may be eligible.
Ability to print Patient and Health
Professional’s reports
incorporating the Patient
Medication Profile including
image and medicine information.
GuildCare is in the process of
piloting iPad and Android
applications which will provide
pharmacies with flexibility needed
to provide effective service in
pharmacy.
For more information on
GuildCare’s MedsCheck module,
visit our website
www.guildcare.com.au or contact
our support team at
support@guildcare.com.au.
This
week’s contributor
is Roma Cecere,
GM for Patient
Care division of GuildLink.
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