SASHA turns every medication dose into a tracked, auditable event — shortening rounds, reducing incidents, and giving your team proof of safe practice on demand. Not more admin. Less.
Medication rounds can consume up to 40% of nursing hours. Trolley-based workflows are slow, error-prone, and create bottlenecks across every shift.
The strengthened Aged Care Act demands systems-level medication governance. The Victorian DPCS Act restricts who can administer from July 2026. The bar is rising.
ENs and RNs are in short supply across Australia. Every minute your nurses spend on medication rounds is a minute lost to clinical care, supervision, and documentation.
When medication safety depends on individual vigilance, missed doses go undetected. La Trobe found 12.5% of administrations were missed at baseline — before SASHA.
250,000+ medication-related hospitalisations per year. Up to 15 medication incidents per home per month. This isn't abstract — it's what your facility is managing right now.
Every dose becomes a tracked event. Access is controlled by fingerprint authentication. The right medication is released at the right time, to the right person. Exceptions are surfaced early. Your team manages by exception — focusing attention where it's needed, not reviewing every routine event.
The La Trobe University evaluation confirmed it: SASHA operationalises the Seven Rights of medication administration at a system level, directly supporting NSQHS Standard 4. It supports clinical judgement — it doesn't replace it. Independent evidence, not marketing claims.
SASHA shifts medication safety from reliance on individual vigilance to system-level reliability, with the greatest gains in Right Dose, Right Time, and Right Documentation.La Trobe University Findings Report, March 2026
703 hours of medication-administration time released over 62 days — equivalent to approximately 4 staff hours returned to direct care per day, without adding headcount.
Median round duration decreased from 77 to 62 minutes. Rounds were more consistent and predictable, with fewer extremely long rounds observed.
Down from 4.1 minutes pre-SASHA — a 41% productivity improvement per administration, despite staff handling more medications per round.
Up from 86% baseline. A 5.4-point absolute improvement achieved during early implementation — the mature effect is likely stronger.
SASHA's fixed unit dose dispensing delivers near-complete reliability for dose accuracy, structurally assured through sachet-based design.
Enforced dose windows achieving high on-time performance — managed through system-level scheduling, not staff memory.
SASHA sits at the resident's bedside, loaded with pharmacy-packed sachet rolls. No trolley to push. No medication cabinet to access.
The authorised carer scans their fingerprint. SASHA verifies identity and confirms a dose is due. Only the right person can access the right medication at the right time.
The sealed sachet is released in sequence. The dose event is automatically timestamped and logged — no manual documentation required.
Depending on your pathway, the resident self-administers with assistance or the EN/RN administers directly. Either way, the workflow is the same.
No paperwork to complete between rooms. Your staff move through the unit at pace. 30–60% faster rounds — proven in live deployments.
Back at the nurses' station, the RN or EN reviews the round in BESTDOSE. Every dose confirmed. Every gap visible. Manage by exception, not by reviewing everything.
Only authorised access. Only the right dose. Only at the right time. Biometric authentication, sachet sequencing, and dose-window enforcement — structurally embedded, not reliant on staff vigilance.
Every dose becomes a timestamped event you can report, review, and audit. Not anecdotal — objective. Your governance evidence is created automatically, as care happens.
Less time pushing trolleys. Less end-of-shift documentation. 88 full facility shifts reclaimed in 62 days at one 130-bed site. Hours returned to direct care, supervision, and person-centred attention.
Real-time visibility of what's due, what's missed, and what needs attention. Remote oversight for care coordinators. SMS alerts for escalation.
Device fleet management, user access controls, and reporting across all your sites. One dashboard for consistent governance — whether you run one facility or twenty.
Exception-based, not surveillance-based. Missed doses, late doses, unusual patterns — surfaced to the right person at the right time through configurable escalation.
Dose round performance KPIs. Trends week to week. Staffing patterns, round durations, bottleneck identification. Export for audits — evidence already there.
Built-in interactive training. Visual, fast, designed for staff who learn by doing. New hires onboard the same way, every time. Completion tracked for audit evidence.
Pharmacy-agnostic. Works with existing sachet packing from any pharmacy. Integrates with BESTMED/BESTDOSE and other medication management systems. Staged rollout, not big-bang.
Enables residents to participate in their own medication routine while maintaining safety. Supports choice, control, and dignity.
Provides visibility, transparency, and an automated audit trail for medication governance. Systems-level evidence, not anecdotal.
Simplifies rounds, identifies patterns, and supports safe, efficient, tailored care delivery across all shifts.
Logs every dose event, integrates with clinical systems, and can flag patterns that prompt medication reviews.
La Trobe confirmed: SASHA operationalises the Seven Rights at system level — Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Time, Right Documentation.
From 1 July 2026, all S4/S8/S9 medications must be administered by ENs, RNs, or authorised practitioners. PCWs will no longer be permitted to administer.
SASHA supports both regulatory pathways:
Path 1: Self-administration exemption — SASHA becomes the enabling technology that makes PCW-assisted self-administration possible.
Path 2: EN/RN-only rounds — SASHA eliminates the trolley and delivers 30–60% faster rounds when nurse time is scarce.
Either way, SASHA is the infrastructure.
SASHA is more accurate, with less chance of giving the wrong medication.
Care staff member — La Trobe post-implementation surveyNo trolley, so there is less physical strain.
Care staff member — La Trobe post-implementation surveyIt works well once you know how to fix problems.
Care staff member — La Trobe post-implementation surveyBy checking the data to see if it showed improvements or hindered staff, we were able to understand workflows better and alter where needed.
General Manager — TLC HealthcareStart with a defined trial. 60–120 days. Clear success metrics. Your data, your facility, your staff. Then decide.
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