Adherence to Medication in Institutions: Nursing Homes, Prisons, and other Settings

Medication adherence in institutional settings is generally maintained through the professional staff and caregivers. In healthcare settings, physicians' prescriptions become a central part of an individual patient's treatment program. In settings such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, hospitals and others, medication packaging not only helps to assure adherence to therapeutic regimens, but the type of packaging provided by MTS provides inventory control as well as safeguards against tampering and misappropriation.

The integrated software solutions available through MTS's automated systems can provide front to back inventory management and distribution controls, audit trails and inventory management.

Solutions such as MTS's MedTimes® and MedLocker® have been successfully deployed in many different institutional settings to provide these benefits and have had the secondary outcome of improving staff efficiency.

MTS's medication adherence packaging components can be integrated into an institution's existing pharmacy dispensing system or an automated system can be adapted and installed to provide complete pharmacy management.