SC Home Rx Consultations and Polypharmacy

Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple drugs by a single patient for one or more conditions. Although opinions differ on the number of medications considered polypharmacy, many consider five or above a threshold. Some of the risks of polypharmacy in our senior populations include falls, adverse drug reactions, hospital readmissions, and mortality. Studies linking an increased risk of falls also find that those risk factors increase significantly with each additional medication prescribed above the threshold. Providers should consider deprescribing as a part of ongoing patient care. SC Home Rx is working with South Carolina, and Georgia House Calls to review and schedule pharmaceutical consults regularly. These consults access a patient's current medications and the appropriateness related to the condition. The assessment also looks for unnecessary or redundant medicines that might be eliminated. 

 In addition to providing pharmaceutical consults, SC Home Rx is continuously working to improve medication delivery and dispensing for its patients. State-of-the-art technology that virtually eliminates human error has been introduced into their new dispensing model that delivers patients' medications in several convenient formats, including multi medication blister packs. For patients who struggle with keeping up with their medications, the Livi pill dispensing technology for in-home automated dispensing ensures the proper medications in the right doses are taken at the right time. In addition to the technological advances, SC Home Rx offers synchronized cycle fill for all prescriptions along with convenient home delivery.