RXinsider: Pill Counters Tablet Counting Systems

KIRBY LESTER

Pharmacy Category:
Tablet / Capsule Counters, Auto Pill Counting Machines

Kirby Lester

Kirby Lester is the world’s most recognized name in automated tablet and capsule counting systems. For more than 35 years, Kirby Lester has been delivering the most compact, affordable and accurate automated counting systems, and is the only automated system that can address 100% of your oral solid prescriptions.

Every Kirby Lester system is designed to enhance productivity, reduce the risk of dispensing errors, maximize patient safety and always count accurately. All Kirby Lester units count the average Rx in less than 5 seconds, require no calibration and are a complete dispensing solution at a fraction of the cost of most other automated systems.

Kirby Lester KL15 Series: Affordable counting perfection in a tiny footprint.

Kirby Lester KL16 Series: Feature-full, with bar coding, image verification and fingerprint identification. Displays the right vial size for every Rx counted.

Kirby Lester High-Volume Series: KL25, 50 and 200 workhorse systems are ideal for pre-packing and validation counting, in long-term care or specialty pharmacy and manufacturing settings.

Coming in 2008: New counting and verification technology coupled with full-blown workflow software, all on a Kirby Lester-level budget.

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McKesson APS

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Scales, Pharmaceutical Compounding Scales

Photograph of pharmacist handing prescription to customer

AccuCount™ Pharmacy Scale
Tablet/capsule counter and integrated pharmacy scale

The AccuCount™ pharmacy scale increases pharmacy efficiency and patient safety. AccuCount™ provides a pharmacy with the ability to process prescriptions by counting, weighing, or compounding. The scale meets all NTEP requirements for a Class II prescription scale and offers pharmacies the ability to count prescriptions up to 620g capacity with 1mg readability. The preprogrammed drug library of over 7,500 items ensures efficient counting and can be updated at any time. AccuCount™ is compact, taking up less than one square foot of counter space.

The RxCheck™ feature reduces medication errors and increases patient safety – the scale bar code verifies the prescription to stock bottle ensuring that the correct prescription is filled for the correct patient.

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PARATA SYSTEMS

Pharmacy Category:
Automated Pharmacy Dispensing Systems, Pharmacy Automation

Parata Systems
Parata Puts You Out In Front

WHAT DO CONSUMERS EXPECT FROM THEIR PHARMACY EXPERIENCE?

1. Accuracy in filling prescriptions
2. Clear communication of medication directions
3. Prescriptions filled in the time promised.

Parata's industry-leading pharmacy automation helps you meet and exceed your customers' expectations. Parata's pharmacy automation improves the safety and convenience of consumers' experience at key touch points in the circle of pharmacy care: fill, serve and adhere.

FILL: Parata™ RDS: Safe, Accurate Pharmacy Automation

Parata RDS, the industry's leading pharmacy automation, offers a proven strategy for taking your dispensing operation to the next level: it automates 50-65 percent of total prescription volume at six to eight times the productivity of manual filling, and is 100 percent accurate for drug and dose.

SERVE: Parata APM™: Convenient, Private Pickup

Set your pharmacy apart with Parata APM: convenient, secure and private selfservice pickup of finished prescriptions.

ADHERE: onePAC™ Packaging: Convenience, Adherence

onePAC prepares a person’s medications by day and dosing time in a sealed, clear plastic packet that is arthritic-approved for easy opening. Each onePAC package is custom-printed with patient name; day and time of dose; medication names, strengths and descriptions; and other details to help them take the right medications at the right time, every time.

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Fulcrum Inc.

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Scales, Pharmaceutical Compounding Scales,
Balance Accessories, NDC Verification, Torbal Scales

TORBAL has been the leading supplier of Prescription Balances for over seventy years, and our scales combine long tradition of value and reliability, with low cost.

All models are NTEP - certified as prescription scales with approved pill counting features, and meet Handbook 44 requirements for a "Class A" prescription balance.

Tablet & Capsule Counters
NDC Barcode Verification Scanning
Compounding Scales with readability of 1mg
No cross-contamination

Pill Counting:
The scale's counting feature is fast, accurate and easy-to-use. Pill counting is performed in three easy steps while modifying and upgrading the database with new drugs takes only seconds.

Verification:
The NDC verification features eliminates potential errors in prescription filling. It ensures that the correct prescription is counted and filled.

Compounding:
The compounding features will add up the recipe ingredients and print a detailed receipt.

Accessories:
Weight sets, thermal printers, draft shields & more.

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Rice Lake Weighing Systems

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Scales, Pharmaceutical Compounding Scales

Rice Lake Weighing Systems, a family-owned, ISO 9001 certified corporation, has been manufacturing and distributing weight based measurement products and supplies since 1946. Today, Rice Lake Weighing Systems is at the forefront of the evolution in weight based measurement and process control. The only component unchanged in 60 years at Rice Lake Weighing System is our legendary commitment to total customer service.

Precision counting has been taken to the next level with the DIGI DC-530 Counting Scale. Accuracy has been improved with the new DIGI “TEP” (Total Error Prediction) mode, the DC-530 provides 1 million internal counts to determine the ultimate sample quantity and detect variances of each sample.

With a capacity of 10 pounds measured in 0.0001 pound increments or a 20 pound capacity measured in 0.0002 pound increments, the DC-530 adapts to almost any configuration. With its large color LCD, the scale warns operators when a counting inaccuracy has been detected, as the display color changes from green to yellow to red. The DC-530 also includes a 200 item memory.

Whether used for inventory, transaction processing or quality control, the DC-530 promotes cost savings at an exceptional value.

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Q.E.M.

Pharmacy Category:
Automated Pharmacy Dispensing Systems : Pharmacy Automation

PAS QEM Automation

WellPoint Pharmacy Management

LET US HELP YOU REDUCE

Med Counting & Dispensing Error Fears?... We’ve got the Solution

Pharmacy Automation Systems designs and manufactures innovative and affordable automation systems for independent community pharmacies. Knowing that companies have to maintain profitability in making decisions, we have designed the D-60 automation system.

Why Automate?

The rate of growth for prescription volume is projected to be 10 times the rate of new available pharmacists. The need for automation has never been greater.

Pharmacy Automation

Reduces liability associated with prescription dispensing errors
Increases time for patient care
Addresses the labor shortage - i.e. pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
Helps manage escalating prescription volume
Reduces labor costs

Automation Designed Specifically for Independent Pharmacies

As independent pharmacies, you have a unique set of needs. We know because we surveyed hundreds of pharmacists like you to find out what automation features are important to you.

Our Model D-60 was designed specifically with you in mind. Here’s what you told us:

Quick ROI
60-Med Capacity
Uncapped Vial
Security
Simple to Install

Easy to Use
Reduce Dependency on Highly Trained Labor
Reduce Human Errors
Space-Saving

Easy to Install

Your new PAS automation system is an advanced, sophisticated system consisting of well designed, trouble-free hardware and software.

As powerful as it is, it was designed to be simple to install and use -- installation and training typically taking less than 2 hours.

Automation. Patient Safety. We just made it affordable.

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SPX GSE

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Scales, Pharmaceutical Compounding Scales

Improving your prescription processing efficiency with innovative products.

Eyecon™

Eyecon™ is the latest technology in prescription dispensing automation, so advanced its simple. Machine vision technology provides unparalleled speed by counting dispensed medication in <200ms, delivering a field tested 100% count accuracy. Combining Eyecon’s™ speed and accuracy with prescription validation, your pharmacy operations improve by: reducing prescription filling times, reduced dispensing errors, improved quality with identification of foreign substances or broken pills and improved patient safety. Most importantly you get a peace of mind the correct medication was dispensed and you have more time to spend with your customers.

The visual open design of the Eyecon™ assures medication is always in view and provides fast and efficient cleaning. Cross contamination of penicillin and sulfa based drugs are prevented with specific penicillin and sulfa counting platters stored under the Eyecon™.

Model 664 Pharmacy Scale

The Model 664 Precision Pharmacy Scale is an NTEP approved Class II balance that provides multiple benefits to pharmacy operations that includes: tablet and capsule counting, inventory management, compounding and general weighing functions. The Model 664 comes standard with 2 pills boat to prevent cross contamination and a 200g calibration weight for validating your balance is within acceptable tolerances for counting and weighing.

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Scriptech

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Scales, Pharmaceutical Compounding Scales

SureCount IIFR

SureCount IIFR

The SureCount Story
SCRIPTECH makes an impressive array of productivity enhancing systems for the modern pharmacy. Technology is in motion. Business is in competition. Solutions are in transition. To keep pace, SureCount continues to reinvent itself so you, the productivity seeking pharmacist, are propelled forward by this inevitable change.

The Little Counter That Could!
When pharmacists demanded more speed, greater accuracy, a smaller footprint and affordable terms, SCRIPTECH answered the call. SureCount is a dependable counter that incorporates a precision scale, large display, bar code technology, bi-directional interface and CHEK-RX, an integrated bar code verification/comparison system to assure prescriptions are filled accurately. This little powerhouse with its blazing speed and space-saving size is built the way you want it.

SureCount Specifications:
* Class II NTEP Certified
* Features two (2) Serial ports and one (1) Ethernet port
* Only the size of a piece of notebook paper (8.5" x 11")
* Counts accurately at up to 80 per second counting (feature for prescription filling only)
* Internal database preprogrammed with 4500 drugs (can store up to 10,000 drugs)
* Can be used for prescription drug counts, inventory count and for compounding.
* 2 year full replacement warrant