RXinsider: Automated Infusion Compunding Systems

Health Robotics

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Automation, Pharmacy Robotics IV Medication Preparation Automation • Automated IV Compounding Systems

CytoCare is a new technology for sterile compounding. It combines a robotic arm, laser-driven syringe filler, sophisticated workflow software and a sterile cabinet. It can handle chemotherapy, pain therapy, and antibiotics admixtures.

Most pharmacists are intrigued with these benefits from CytoCare:

Sterile robotic environment minimizes human intervention and the risks of contamination.
Robotic preparations enhance dosing accuracy and consistency - protecting against both under-dosing and excess-dosing in manual preparations.
Automated documentation strengthens the reliability of the electronic medical record, a valuable component in your USP 797 compliance plan.
Efficient workflow software allows you to migrate at your own pace from manual to robotic compounding.
CytoCare can use your choice of final containers and sizes, including IV bags, bottles, and syringes.
Generate significant, immediate savings from the efficient use of partial drug vials with automated time/date stamps and drug aging alerts based on your custom protocols

In the life-critical field of intra-venous medication preparation, especially chemotherapy, health care providers are experiencing growing pressures to improve patient safety, decrease life- threatening medication errors and contamination risks, and to work more efficiently, increase throughput, and contain costs.

To learn more about Health Robotics please use the links below to contact us or visit our website.

	Email / Contact Us:	Click Here
	Visit Our Website:	Click Here

ScriptPro

Pharmacy Category:
Telepharmacy Pharmacy • Remote Order Entry Providers
Remote Pharmacy Support Centers • Offsite Pharmacy Support

Pharmacy Technician is capturing images using an inspection camera inside the biological safety cabinet.

Screen shot combines inspection images of syringe, fluid bag, medication vial, and prescription label.

Pharmacist verifies chemo prescription by viewing the inspection images at SP Checkpoint.

Telepharmacy for Sterile Room Med Preparation

ScriptPro’s Technology to improve safety in one of the highest risk practices in hospital pharmacies in several ways. Positive matching to the patient's medication order decreases the risk of using the wrong drug. The pharmacists’ review digital images of the critical process steps, including the volume of medication injected into the IV bag.

A technician scans the barcode on the chemotherapy drug vial. A computer match to the patient record ensures that the correct formulation has been selected.
In the preparation room, the technician captures an electronic image of the vial label and the filled syringe just prior to injecting the medication into the patient's IV bag.
Before completing the preparation, the technician presses a button on the ScriptPro Telepharmacy screen to request pharmacist verification.
A clinical pharmacist, working outside the preparation room, reviews the images of the drug vial, the pullback on the syringe containing the medication, the IV bag, and the patient's medication order. Confirmation of the review steps and related images are archived as part of the electronic record and are available for future reference.
There is no need for either party to go through the procedures of entering or exiting the isolation room.

"We wanted to minimize assumptions when verifying chemotherapy medications. We selected Telepharmacy, and our program is providing the assurances we want.”

— Brian O’Neal, MS, PharmD, Assistant Director of Pharmacy
University of Kansas Hospital, Department of Pharmacy

	Email / Contact Us:	Click Here
	Visit Our Website:	Click Here

ForHealth Technologies

Pharmacy Category:
IV Medication Preparation Automation • Automated IV Compounding Systems

Automated IV Preparation

Healthcare providers and organizations today face a wide range of challenges including critical staff shortages, increased rates of patient acuity and an ever-growing list of new and complex medications.

Healthcare providers are experiencing enormous pressure to improve patient safety by reducing the rate of medication errors—while at the same time working more efficiently and containing costs.

IntelliFill i.v. from ForHealth Technologies directly addresses these challenges. IntelliFill i.v. automates the preparation of small-volume IV medications safely, accurately, efficiently and reliably. It employs robotic technology incorporated in its own internal clean room environment to increase patient safety and reduce operating costs at the same time. IntelliFill i.v. helps you realize:

Reductions in medication errors
Deployment of pharmacy and nurse skill sets to more patient-focused activities
Significant medication-acquisition cost savings
Reduction in medication inventories

Return On Investment

Favorable returns on investments have been realized by IntelliFill i.v. users across the country
Significant medication-acquisition cost savings
Potential reduction in pharmacy repetitive-strain injuries

For information about our other product offerings or to learn more about the ForHealth Technologies , please use the links provided below.

	Email / Contact Us:	Click Here
	Visit Our Website:	Click Here

Samson Medical Technologies

Pharmacy Category:
Fully Automated Syringe Filling • Automated IV Compounding Systems

Samson Medical Technologies, L.L.C., a privately-held, limited liability company, was founded in 1999 by Marvin Samson, to provide hospital and alternate site pharmacists with injectable drug delivery systems and programs designed to meet their unique needs.

SmartPak^®, the Company’s first product family, is a sealed plastic bag, in a foil overwrap, containing up to 300 grams of sterile powder. It is an easy-to-use, patented packaging system for injectable drugs, ideal for prescription compounding; its uses include syringe infusion, minibags and cassettes for home infusion. SmartPak^® is compatible with all commercially available pumps, syringe infusion tubing sets, cassettes and syringes.

Samson Medical Technologies proudly introduces SmartPak® a patented packaging system ideal for prescription compounding.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Fully automatic
Range from 1 ml to 60 ml syringes
Speed up to 30 syringes per minute (depending on fill volume)
Designed for laminar flow operation
All product contact parts are disposable
Easy changeover (approximately 15 minutes)
Reduced manual handling of components
Utilizes standard components

fully automated batch syringe filling minibags closed system home infusion software assurance of sterility fluid transfer tube sets pumps tubing multi ingredient solution compounding tpn bag filling bar coding iv administration admixture medication infusion pumps continuous syringe infusers delivery rate oncology barcoding bedside infusion therapy delivery systems docking stations patient monitoring alternate site medication error reduction needle free

	Email / Contact Us:	Click Here
	Visit Our Website:	Click Here

.automated batch syringe filling multi ingredient solution compounding bar coding iv administration admixture medication

Baxa

Pharmacy Category:
Fully Automated Syringe Filling • Automated IV Compounding Systems

Pharmacy Infusion Pumps • Pharmacy IV Supplies • IV Compounding Systems • IV Admixture Tools • Syringe Infusion Systems

Baxa Corporation was founded in 1975 with a mission to develop innovative, high-quality products for hospital pharmacies. Over more than a quarter century of rapid growth and change in the healthcare industry, the company has flourished through dedication to outstanding service and a solid reputation for designing niche products which provide solutions to practical problems in the pharmacy.

Performance matters. By understanding customer applications, needs and requirements, Baxa strives to offer the best-performing products and the highest value in the industry. Through continuous improvement and technology development, we deliver the best solutions for safe handling of fluid medications.

Automated Filling Systems
Collection Bags, Large-Volume Filters, Pump Accessories, Repeater™ Pump, Rapid-Fill™ Automated Syringe Filler, Robotic Filling System, Scale, Syringe Strips, Syringe Filling Fixture, Top Fill Bags, Tube Sets

Multi-Ingredient Solution Compounding
Abacus™ Software, Adapters, Caps, Connectors, Dual-Chamber TPN Bags, Exacta-Mix™ 2400 and 600 Compounders, Gravity Mixing Sets, Inlets, MicroMacro™ 12 and 23 Compounders, TPN Bags, Tube Sets, Valve Sets, Vial Racks

IV Administration
Administration Sets, MicroFuse® Accessories, MicroFuse Infuser, MicroFuse Extended Rate Infuser, MicroFuse Rapid Rate Infuser

IV Admixture
Collection Bags, Dispensing Pins, Needles, Port Saver, Rapid-Fill Connectors and Adapters, Syringes, Syringe Filters, Tamper-Evident Seals, Tip Caps, Transfer Needles, Two-Fer™ Needles, Vent Filters, Venting Pins

Oral Liquid Delivery Systems
Adapta-Cap™ Bottle Adapters and Bottlewells, Exacta-Med® Oral Dispensers and Accessories, Enteral Syringes, Gel Bags, Kwik-Vial™ Containers and Accessories, Kwik-Vial Software, Labels, Mark-a-Dose™ Labels, Tamper-Indicating Seals, Rapid-Fill Oral Connectors, Press-In Bottle Adapters, 3-Way Oral Port Stopcock, Tip Caps, Top Fill Bags, Topical Dispensers, Universal Bottle Adapters, Vaginal Dispensers

Oncology Solutions
PhaSeal® System Protectors, Injectors, Connectors, Infusion Adapters, Assembly Fixture, Syringe Holders

TPN intravenous I.V. injectable automated syringe filling labeling patient safety I.V. mixing packaging systems fully automated batch syringe filling minibags closed system home infusion software assurance of sterility fluid transfer tube sets pumps tubing multi ingredient solution compounding tpn bag filling bar coding iv administration admixture medication infusion pumps continuous syringe infusers delivery rate oncology barcoding bedside infusion therapy delivery systems docking stations patient monitoring alternate site medication error reduction needle free

	Email / Contact Us:	Click Here
	Visit Our Website:	Click Here

.automated batch syringe filling multi ingredient solution compounding bar coding iv administration admixture medication

IV Compounding Systems / Automated Bag & Syringe Fillers / Automated Infusion Compounding Robots