{"id":768,"date":"2023-11-06T07:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/?p=768"},"modified":"2025-04-21T04:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:31:13","slug":"the-benefits-of-automated-care-home-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/blog\/the-benefits-of-automated-care-home-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Automated Care Home Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/info.nicmapvision.com\/nic-map-quarterly-market-fundamentals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIC MAP Market Fundamentals Data report<\/a>, occupancy rates across assisted living and nursing care facilities have been on an upward trend for the eleventh consecutive quarter.<\/p>\n<p>With persistent demand continuously outpacing the industry\u2019s ability to meet them, assisted living directors are looking for groundbreaking ways to cut expenses, optimize operations, and bolster their growth.<\/p>\n<p>And the answer could be right within their reach: healthcare automation. <\/p>\n<h2>What Is Healthcare Automation?<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb-4 mb-sm-3\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-2d7c54ca-1920w-640w.webp\" alt=\"blog-img\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare automation uses technology and processes to make healthcare delivery, administration, and management more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective with minimal human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Software technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jotform.com\/blog\/healthcare-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jotform<\/a> explains that while automation in healthcare can take many forms, most tools focus on streamlining the repetitive, time-consuming, but vital tasks healthcare staff must complete daily. In the care home industry, such tasks include documentation, scheduling, medication management, inventory, and resident monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few popular healthcare automation tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software<\/li>\n<li>Pharmacy Automation Software<\/li>\n<li>Medication Adherence Applications<\/li>\n<li>Medication Dispensing Robots<\/li>\n<li>Patient Engagement Platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>5 Ways Automated Health Systems Can Elevate Your Assisted Living Facility<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb-4 mb-sm-3\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-08828ce2-640w.webp\" alt=\"blog-img\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><\/p>\n<p>Integrating automation and technology into your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/assisted-living\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">assisted living facility<\/a> can transform your quality of service, enhance resident experience, and ultimately drive your organization toward sustainable growth. Here are some of the ways it can do that:<\/p>\n<h3>Optimize Medication Pass<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/what-we-offer\/doseminder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automated medication dispensing systems<\/a> that are integrated with their pharmacy\u2019s software help ensure precise and timely delivery of medications. Designed to organize and package the correct dosage at the scheduled time, it significantly reduces the risk of medication errors. <\/p>\n<p>Automatically dispensed and pre-packed in multi-dose compliance packaging, the medication comes in clear dose cups with detailed labels, high-visibility font, color-coded schedule indicators, and tear-away med sheets\u2014all of which help optimize med pass and increase medication adherence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/dosekart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligent medication carts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/dosepacker-storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">storage devices<\/a> can also contribute to care home automation by integrating the premium compliance packaging with medication verification systems, making med pass more organized, convenient, accurate, and time-efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Medication management applications, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/mydoses-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MyDoses app<\/a>, also automate reminders and alerts to help ensure patients and their caregivers adhere to medication schedules. The app works hand-in-glove with smart medication storage devices like DoseBank and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/doseminder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DoseMinder<\/a>, significantly improving resident medication adherence. <\/p>\n<p>By streamlining the medication pass process, automation not only enhances the accuracy of care but also saves a large chunk of your staff\u2019s time, allowing them to focus on other essential aspects of resident care and ultimately improving the overall quality of care in the facility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/blog\/how-mydoses-increases-your-med-pass-efficiency\">How MyDoses Increases Your Med Pass Efficiency<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Streamline Resident Management<\/h3>\n<p>Investing in a robust care home management software\u2014one of the most impactful automation tools for residential care facilities\u2014can help you achieve efficient and accurate control over all the resident management activities that occur within care homes.<\/p>\n<p>An assisted living management software like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/what-we-offer\/carecommunityos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CareCommunityOS<\/a> allows you to add residents\u2019 demographics and patient data into the HIPAA-compliant system, which helps you organize all your resident information in one place. It features fully customizable forms that help you automate the process of taking in new residents\u2014from application forms and general questionnaires to consent forms and medical assessments.<\/p>\n<p>CareCommunityOS also provides real-time bidirectional integration with certain pharmacy software. This helps you get rid of all the manual work involved in gathering and updating information on your residents\u2019 medications, routines, and med pass times. Your software can automate all that for you.<\/p>\n<h3>Enhance Communication<\/h3>\n<p>While not all care home management software offers communication features, premium brands like DosePacker\u2019s CareCommunityOS specialize in fostering clear communication and collaborative care among care home teams, pharmacies, and healthcare providers. It allows you to generate automated resident, medication, and inventory updates for the appropriate teams.<\/p>\n<p>Medication management applications like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/mydoses-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MyDoses<\/a> also automate in-app notifications, which help ensure care home staff administer doses to the residents at the correct time. Application users can set up reminders and notifications to alert the provider, caretaker, resident, or even the resident\u2019s family when it&#8217;s time for med pass.<\/p>\n<h3>Secure Data and Stay Compliant<\/h3>\n<p>HIPAA-compliant care home technology helps you speed up time-consuming processes, manage patient records, and automate complex workflows while keeping your facility\u2019s protected health information secure. Using cloud-hosted servers for your technology, for example, allows you to automatically (and regularly) back up your data and store it in secure data centers so you won\u2019t have to worry about losing it.<\/p>\n<p>To help ensure maximum compliance, automation tools also typically come with a comprehensive reporting module that can generate custom reports you need for regulatory audits and inspections.<\/p>\n<h3>Reduce Medication Waste<\/h3>\n<p>Investing in automated medication packaging not only enhances the patient experience and improves the quality of care, but it also drives your organization toward environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>An automated drug inventory allows you to keep precise track of the medications you purchase, dates of purchase, and, if it\u2019s integrated with a pharmacy robot, the number of drugs dispensed. By ensuring your stock matches supply and demand, you can drastically reduce the number of leftover medications your care home has to dispose of.<\/p>\n<p>Automated dispensing and packaging also protect capsules and tablets from light, moisture, and air that degrade their quality, extending their shelf life and reducing the amount of expired medication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/blog\/how-to-reduce-hazardous-pharmaceutical-waste-with-compliance-packaging\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to Reduce Hazardous Pharmaceutical Waste With Compliance Packaging<\/a> <\/p>\n<h2>Harness the Power of Automated Health Systems with DosePacker<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb-4 mb-sm-3\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-0022275d-640w.webp\" alt=\"blog-img\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><\/p>\n<p>While many people fear automation and technology will one day completely replace them, that couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma says, &#8220;Automation enables people to focus on tasks that require the human touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Automation modernizes the quality of care and services in the care home industry. And it\u2019s not by taking jobs away from healthcare workers and caregivers but by allowing them to channel their time, effort, and focus toward giving patients and residents genuine care.<\/p>\n<p>Leverage the power of automation for your care home\u2019s growth and success. If you\u2019re not sure how to do that or where to start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DosePacker<\/a> can help you out with its extensive suite of automation solutions specially designed for care homes and assisted living communities.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/what-we-offer\/carecommunityos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robust care home management software<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/mydoses-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">innovative medication management apps<\/a> to technology-enabled compliance packaging and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosepacker.com\/doseminder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intelligent prescription storage devices<\/a>, DosePacker is ready to equip your facility with the technology it needs to grow and succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover what healthcare automation is and know benefits of automated technology in care homes, including improved patient care and streamlined operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.website4md.com\/dosepacker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}