Virtual Pharmacy Trade Show:
Medication Verification Systems

Introducing ValiMed™ Medication Validation System and Narcotics Return Control from CDEX

We are proud to introduce the ValiMed™ System that uses Enhanced Photoemission Spectroscopy to provide an efficient, real time and cost-effective means to validate high risk medications before leaving the pharmacy and to provide assurance of what comes back.

The portable, stand alone, countertop Medication and Narcotic validation device gives proven, accurate and immediate results when validating the accuracy of the drug, dosage and diluent of a .15 ml sample of the selected medication. (The University of Michigan study published in the January 1, 2008 Issue of the American Journal of Health System Pharmacists documents ValiMed’s ability to detect and prevent medication errors with 100% accuracy.)

ValiMed’s noninvasive technology can be easily implemented in to your work flow process to address multiple issues:

Patient Safety

Patient safety is at the forefront of everyone’s agenda. Bar coding and double checks can help catch errors but, until now, there has been no cost effective, time-sensitive means to QUALITATIVELY check the liquid medication prior to leaving the pharmacy.

The ValiMed Patient Safety Solution provides validation of IV admixtures (including high alert medications) at the time of compounding in the pharmacy. This reduces undetected errors in medication selection, the manufacturing of admixtures, inadvertent substitution, purposeful counterfeiting or the mislabeling of the medication, container or package.

ValiMed uses a technology referred to as Enhanced Photoemission Spectroscopy to validate medications, equally innovative software to define and automate the patient safety process, and a library of almost 200 medication signatures for a range of relevant medications. Heparin, Insulin and Morphine, (known to be in the top 28% high alert medications), are well represented in the current ValiMed medication signature library. As your needs expand, so too can this library!

The ValiMed system provides real time medication validation to prevent sometimes lethal errors as well as documentation of your compounding process. Daily activity reports can be easily defined and generated by drug, by user and by source.

Narcotics Return Solutions

ASHP’s Guidelines on Surgery and Anesthesiology Pharmaceutical Services, recommends “Qualitative testing of returned controlled substances.” Most institutions rely on QUANTITATIVE accounting in order to identify diversion/dilution problems, but how do you know what’s really in the returned syringe?

ValiMed provides rapid, QUALITATIVE analysis of returned narcotics, (including Fentanyl), prior to disposal.

The ValiMed Narcotics Return Solution provides fast, easy, accurate and discreet validation of controlled substances in any pharmacy location. The solution is designed to validate returned controlled substance waste from both the OR satellite and the patient care areas.

You can easily generate and print reports to focus on any number of user, drug and source defined fields allowing you to document and track your disposal procedures.

ValiMed can help identify problem areas before they become crises while meeting regulatory guidelines for the accounting of controlled substances.

Training Solutions

ValiMed can assist you in training, monitoring and optimizing your pharmacy staff and their performance to insure that the RIGHT drug, in the RIGHT dose is administered to your patients.

We look forward to assisting you with your patient safety and narcotic return validation needs! Contact us today!