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Are your Monitoring and Recording Protocols a Compliance RISK?

Then join Tutela at ASHP’s Midyear Clinical Meeting.  It is the largest gathering of pharmacists in the world. With its focus on improving patient care and medication safety, the meeting is attended by more than 20,000 pharmacy professionals from about 100 countries.

VISIT US on Booth 426, at ASHP December 8th-12th 2013 in Orlando to find out more about how the Tutela system protects your valuable pharmacy inventory.

Web-based and future-proof, Tutela’s wireless temperature monitoring systems deliver unparalleled accuracy, total regulatory compliance and rock-solid audit trails with no hidden software upgrade or validation costs. And using web-based technology in the cloud, electronic records are securely accessible 24/7 anywhere in the world on any device able to support a web-browser.

The Orlando show promises four fabulous days of education, professional growth, and networking. Whether you are new to the field or an experienced hospital pharmacy professional, the ASHP Mid Year EXPO offers programs for everyone.

Gain important information and insights that will increase your value to your hospital pharmacy facility.  Visit the website here.

Hosted by the Global Genome Biodiversity Network, Tutela will be attending the First International Conference on Biodiversity Biobanking: Building a Trusted Community of Accessible Genomic Collections, June 30 – July 2 2014, in London.  Lectures will be held at at held at the Flett Lecture Theatre, NHM London from 30 June-1 July and the Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on July 2.

The conference promises 3 days of  learning and networking with over 150 international delegates including world class biodiversity biobankers, cryofacility and museum collection managers, data managers, high throughput pipeline, robotics, next generation  sequencing, molecular biology experts and other scientific staff from around the world.

For more information about the GGBN conference please visit their website.

For more information about Tutela Monitoring Systems click here.

 

In this film, made specifically for the ITN Health Channel, the benefits of pharmacy automation are discussed along with the benefits of using a Pharmacy Consultant to effect smooth change from manual processes such as pharmacy temperature monitoring and training.

The Pharmacy featured in the film is based in the Northampton General Hospital, where they have been using a wireless temperature monitoring system from Tutela to maintain MHRA Compliance and to protect their valuable products.

 

Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day 2013 is the premier Life Sciences event in the East Midlands.  The Innovation Day attracts around 250 delegates who come to network with the who’s who of the Life Sciences sector in the East Midlands, catch up with business colleagues and make new connections.

If your company works with medtech, biotech or pharma and you want to see the latest research and technologies, then visiting the popular exhibition area is essential.

The day consists of an afternoon conference with top speakers on hot topics relating to the sector and there will be plenty of opportunities to network and exhibit throughout the day.

There will be a drinks reception and dinner with an awards ceremony to celebrate the achievements of the companies in our region after the more formal presentations have taken place in the afternoon. Find out more information about the Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day here.

Wireless, and future-proof (being web-based), Tutela’s wireless laboratory temperature monitoring systems deliver unparalleled  accuracy, regulatory compliance and rock-solid audit trails with no hidden software upgrade or validation costs. And being wireless, installation is simple, less intrusive and rapidly creates ROI.

VISIT Tutela at the Medilink Innovation Event, Radisson Blu , Pegasus Business Park, Herald Way , East Midlands Airport , Derby , DE74 2TZ  on Thu 13 Jun, 11:00 AM – Thu 13 Jun, 10:00 PM to find out how we protect your refrigerated laboratory products and to see our system in action.

What role can technology play in controlling access, compliance and viability in Pharmacy, supporting enhanced medicine management for pharmacists in their response to an increasingly centric role in patient care?

Mike Hobby, Sales Director at Tutela explores the changing role of the pharmacist and the increasing demands for the safe management of medicine.

With ever tighter controls expected by regulators, how will technology support the pharmacist and elegantly mitigate the challenges and pitfalls ahead in the auditing safe handling of drugs?

Expected Future Challenges in Pharmacy Medicine Management

Pharmacy is being asked to work with an ever-expanding team of healthcare professionals in the NHS’s requirement to provide the best healthcare.  Yet, there is increasing pressure on the NHS budget, a growing population, massive swings in age demographics, overlaid with the need to treat long term conditions such as diabetes in the community.

We know from recent surveys that GPs are becoming part-timers; indeed, only last year a study by the King’s Fund found that one in ten trainee GPs actually plan to work full-time.  Whatever the underlying reasons and motivations, the effect of this on the gap between GP resource and patient needs will only get wider.  This will impact on the service a patient receives and affects patient trust if access to the same ‘face’ is denied at the surgery.

We can safely predict that it may well be the case that the pharmacist could be the only ‘face’ a patient recognises in future.

Can we be absolutely sure, that medicines are being securely stored correctly?

Whether it is in the GP’s surgery, on a ward in a hospital, a room in a care home, a community-based clinic, or at home, patients need access to safe medicines when they are at the most vulnerable.  If Pharmacists are being asked to take a wider role in community medicine, will current temperature and control processes be sufficient in future?

With the current the rise in online prescription drugs sold illegally or of dubious provenance, retail high street pharmacists are ideally placed to stand out as examples of safe practice and trusted advisor.  The retail pharmacist can set an increasing high standard of care, reinforcing the existing high levels of trust in their services, but it will need technology to do a lot of the heavy lifting to meet the challenge

Do we need independent monitoring?

The simple answer is yes, but not just monitoring, but active alarming and callout notifications of failing fridge or unauthorised access. The storage of vaccines, bloods, insulin and a range of medicines don’t just become inactive, they can become outright dangerous if used, putting lives at risk.

How can technology support medicine management better?

Reassuringly the pharmacy monitoring technology exists right now to enable the high levels of compliance that will be required by the GPHC, who in future we expect to be acting in the consumer’s eyes as the “TripAdvisor” of healthcare.

Visit stand number PH38 at Pharmacy 2018 to see the monitoring system from Tutela and discuss how it can support your future needs, or email  [email protected] to book a meeting at the show.

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