HealthTech is key focus for Ashtons Hospital Pharmacy Services rebrand

Ashtons have today launched their new brand identity, including an all-new corporate logo marque and visual communication system. A bold statement of intent that reflects the evolutionary trajectory that now places HealthTech at the centre of Ashtons’ business ecosystem.

To tie in with today’s launch is a new website with quick links to online ordering, e-learning and Live View portals, as well as an extensive intelligence section for industry news, resources, and Ashtons unique insights, check it out at www.ashtons.com.

Ashtons is a business renowned for providing best in class pharmacy services to hospitals and healthcare providers. Now they add a clear focus on digitally empowering those core services to make Ashtons the UK’s leading medicines management provider.

The Brighton based HealthTech powerhouse offer complete national coverage for all their products and services. This includes ACADEMY for in person and e-learning education, in house and remote pharmacists for CLINICAL support, and an online portal for the SUPPLY of products and medicines.

Connecting this ecosystem of services are HEALTHTECH software solutions that enable Ashtons to partner with client organisations through a fully integrated mix of human and digital tools and services, delivering outstanding quality and the best in patient care and safety.

HealthTech at the centre of Ashtons service ecosystem:

e-Works(epma)

The award winning Ashtons e-Works is a unique electronic prescription and medicines administration (EPMA) system. It is a direct response to the UK government’s current targets for all healthcare facilities to become paperless by 2024.  Ashtons e-Works replaces paper medication records, such as prescription charts, and is transformational in improving the safe prescribing and administration of medication.

Leading edge HealthTech software empowers Ashtons’ clinical staff to deliver better patient care, since its launch Ashtons e-Works ePMA system has been proven to reduce prescribing errors by up to 88% and medicines administration errors by up to 94%.

Ashtons e-Works is a unique electronic prescription and medicines administration (EPMA) system that has been designed as an affordable and easy-to-use alternative to its competition, perfectly suited to the requirements of independent hospitals and hospices. It allows users to manage both patients’ prescriptions and the administration of their medication, 24/7, from anywhere with internet access. It has inbuilt decision support software which advises clinicians about medicine doses, potential adverse drug interactions, and contra-interactions such as potential drug allergic reactions. The system has a medicine administration scheduler with all information displayed clearly and, in a user-friendly format, helping ensure patients receive the right medication at the right time.

Key benefits of Ashtons e-Works

• Accelerate Paperless – Ashtons e-Works replaces paper medication records, such as prescription charts
• Transform administration – improves the safe prescribing and administration of medication
• Faster access – ensures faster access to medication
• One time entry – reduce duplications of patient records
• Time efficiency – helps to free up staff time.
• Affordable and easy to use – perfectly suited to the requirements of independent hospitals and hospices
• 24/7 management – accessible records from anywhere with internet access
• Meet government targets – healthcare facilities to become paperless by 2024
• Single point access – patient records, pharmacy reports, prescription charts and ordering all in one place

Live View

Ashtons have Expert clinical pharmacists geographically located to support client outlets, working in partnership to give authoritative advice on treatments, best practices and regulatory requirements.

In-person visits to site are augmented by Ashtons’ cutting edge Live View communication software. This allows for complete control in managing prescription charts, dosage and interaction confirmations, legalities, location checks and audits, always ensuring client hospitals deliver the best outcomes possible for their patients, meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements and best practices

Live View software product is a unique online tool that has transformed pharmacy reporting. Inspired by customer feedback and developed in-house as a better way to manage medication information and delivering improved patient care. The system allows information from visiting specialist clinical pharmacists to be made immediately available online to other relevant hospital staff. It allows senior clinicians and managers to monitor medicines management in their hospital 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world and take appropriate action

Live View facilitates the analysis of trends over time. It helps identify early warning of issues, reporting on common problems, training issues and the most frequent errors. With the ability to display a full history of the pharmacist’s visits, and their findings, plus a summary of staff actions and responses, Live View drives improvements in efficiency, and provides better evidence of regulatory compliance.

Live View is more than a pharmacy reporting system. It has become a multi-functional online resource for medicines management, unique in the UK, providing easy access to a vast range of clinical information and guideline libraries.

In the first two years of use, monitoring among Ashtons clients has shown Live View to have brought about a 56% fall in the number of medication errors, 59% reduction in prescribing errors, 63% reduction in administration errors, and 52% reduction in patient details errors.

Key benefits of Ashtons Live View:

• Access online clinical information: Formulary, MaPPs, Choice and Medication, various Clinical guidelines
• Record and communicate – transformative online medicines management and reporting
• Reduce errors – communications and reports from pharmacists
• One time entry – reduce duplications of patient records
• Time efficient – helps to free up staff time.
• Affordable and easy to use – perfectly suited to the requirements of independent hospitals and hospices
• 24/7 management – accessible records from anywhere with internet access
• Meet government targets – healthcare facilities to become paperless by 2024
• Single point – patient records, pharmacy reports, prescription charts and ordering all in one place

Astons believe they are the only provider to offer fully integrated, people oriented, HealthTech enabled medicines supply, management and training services, putting them at the forefront of helping patients get the very best treatments available.

 Ashtons HealthTech. Empowering better patient outcomes.