QUMulus® – Quality Use of Medicines in the Cloud
QUMulus®† is a cloud-based program developed by pharmacists to support pharmacists in Australia providing Residential Medication Management Reviews (RMMRs) and Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) services to Residential Care Facilities (RCFs).
†pronounced the same as cumulus clouds
It can also be utilised to record medication use by community-living patients allowing for medication trend analysis within this community.
Who benefits from QUMulus®?
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Consultant pharmacists
Great support for fulfilling Quality Use Of Medicines contracts – QUMulus® reports are very well received by MACs (Medication Advisory Committees)
Analyse data usage trends over time, helps to demonstrate efficacy of education programs e.g. monitoring appropriate use of psychotropic medications
Benchmark data usage patterns across your residential care facilities as well as across corporate groups, states and nationally
Can track individual residents’ medication histories, great to monitor actions resulting from RMMRs
QUMulus® Medication Guides are popular with personnel who administer medications (e.g. whether oral medications can be crushed) and can also be provided to residents or their next-of-kin as educational material
Residential care facilities
QUMulus® reports are very well received by MACs (Medication Advisory Committees), data useful for fulfilling accreditation requirements
QUMulus® data assists with medication-related Quality Indicators reporting requirements
Nurses and other medication administration personnel in residential care facilities
Lots of easy-to-read drug information in QUMulus® Medication Guides including medication names, indications, adverse effects, administration hints, storage requirements, crushing information, occupational hazards
Patients
QUMulus® Medication Guides can be supplied to patients/residents or their next-of-kin as educational material
Features
- Patient-centred Medication Guides
- Patient-centred benchmarking summary
- Individual patient medication history
- Medication use analysis per facility, including usage trends over time
- Facility-wide and corporate group comparative analysis with national benchmarking
- Lists of residents in a facility prescribed various categories of medications
- Optimised for rapid data entry
Regulatory Compliance
- Supports collecting data for the Aged Care and Quality Safety Commission Psychotropic Medications Self-Assessment Tool
- Supports collecting data for the medication management component of The Department of Health’s National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program
Meet our Team
Developed by Pharmacists for Pharmacists
Robyn Saunders
B Pharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, AACPA
Principal Pharmacist
Victorian Pharmacist of the Year 2019; Australian Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2022.
Robyn has extensive pharmacy experience in hospital, community and consultancy. Leader in her field in aged care pharmacy services.
Alan Saunders
B Pharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm
Lead Developer and pharmacist
Alan Saunders is an experienced pharmacist with a hospital background in the provision of evidence-based medication information, for many years as director of the Victorian Drug Information Service.
Alan is also a database software developer, known for ANDIN for drug information services, and for many years as a database manager for MedicalDirector® (medical software).
Testimonials
Manya — B Pharm, PhD, AACPA
Consultant Pharmacist (SA)
“QUMulus is an outstanding product. The reports are greatly appreciated by clinical nurses and management alike. Furthermore, they always impress the accreditors as QUMulus functions relate directly to the aged care standards.
“Most importantly, the ‘Medication Guide’ that can be produced for each patient can be inserted at the front of the resident’s medication chart. It provides a list of medicines with key information points for consideration and discussion.
“QUMulus is easy to use and great value. QUMulus enables me to deliver a ‘top drawer’ QUM service.”
Kay — B Pharm, AACPA
Consultant Pharmacist (Vic)
“QUMulus has been a great addition to my QUM service.
“The comprehensive reports, in particular analysing data on psychotropic and polypharmacy, are well received by medication advisory committees (MACs).They are easy to interpret and can then be used to focus on areas of quality improvement.
“The patient-centred medication guides provide practical information for nursing and medical staff – they are excellent!”
Jenny — PhC, Grad Dip Comm Pharm, PhD, FACPP, FPS, AACPA
Consultant Pharmacist (Vic)
“QUMulus takes the stress out of audits. It expedites data input either from RMMRs or directly from medication charts.
“Reports are clear and uncluttered and include graphs to compare usage, trends and benchmarking against similar ACFs, corporate groups, state and national data. The reports assist the facility to fulfil the requirements of the Aged Care and Quality Safety Commission.
“One of the features I haven’t seen in any other software is QUMulus’s individual resident medication guides. These are loved by the staff for ongoing education and contribute to safe use of medicines. Information on crushing, precautions, adverse effects, device instruction, anticholinergic burden and more are all provided with a click.”