RXinsider: Pharmacy Automation Dispensing Technology Showcase

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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McKesson Automated
Prescription Systems (APS)

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Automation, Pharmacy Robotics

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LEADING THE WAY
McKesson Automated Prescription Systems (APS) is the leading provider of automation solutions that increase pharmacy efficiency & enhance patient safety. With over 30 years proven & reliable products and services, McKesson APS offers solutions from pharmacy scales to counting and dispensing technology including high-level robotics to workflow software that integrates the solutions together.

Through the power of automation & workflow software, McKesson helps free pharmacy staff to counsel & care for patients. Pharmacists and technicians are more productive & pharmacy efficiency increases the results…patients receive better & safer care.

PHARMACY EFFICIENCY
McKesson APS helps pharmacies grow their business by maximizing throughput & improving the pharmacy environment. McKesson’s experienced pharmacist consultants tailor solutions that meet customer’s needs & goals … proving a solid return on investment. From pharmacy scales to counting & dispensing technology to workflow software packages to advanced robotics, McKesson’s comprehensive product line is integrated & scaleable to virtually meet any pharmacy’s current & future needs. By streamlining processes and automating time-consuming functions with McKesson automation, prescriptions are filled faster, patient wait times are decreased and pharmacists are freed to perform other value-added tasks –ensuring that the pharmacy is the pharmacy of choice for customers and employees.

PATIENT SAFETY
As the leading provider of bar coded technology to over 10,000 pharmacy customers, McKesson APS has seen first-hand how bar coding can increase patient safety & help to save lives. Bar coding has proven effective from patient entry through prescription counting, dispensing & replenishment to the point of patient pick-up & APS addresses each step with bar coded technology. In addition to bar code verification, APS’ benchmark technology accurately counts & stores medications and provides drug image verification through advanced workflow software. McKesson is committed to the continued development & design of bar coded technology & processes that are essential for patient safety. In addition to the tragedy of lost lives, the financial costs of preventable medication errors to patients and the healthcare system overall are sizable.

LEADING THE WAY IN INNOVATION
McKesson APS is committed to delivering industry leading, innovative products and services and to providing top-notch customer service & support. APS’ comprehensive product portfolio provides customers with reliable quality products and services that improve pharmacy efficiency, enhance patient safety and meet pharmacy & ROI requirements. Customers are & continue to be, APS’ impetus for new product development and existing line enhancements.

AccuCount™ Pharmacy Scale
AccuMed™ Dispensing Technology
AccuScript™ Pharmacy Robot
AccuSign™ Signiture Capture Device
Automated Will Call Bin Management

Baker Cassettes Counting Technology
Baker Cells Counting Technology
High Volume Solutions
Pharmacy 2000™ Workflow Software

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McKesson Automation

Pharmacy Category:
Robot-Rx, MedCarousel and Fulfill-Rx
Pharmacy Automation & Robotics

McKesson PACMED

McKesson Automation’s ROBOT-Rx® automates the storage, dispensing, returning, restocking and crediting of unit-dose medications using bar-code technology. As the only proven robotic inpatient pharmacy system based on more than a decade of pharmacy automation expertise, ROBOT-Rx is designed to save time and money in your pharmacy by:

Achieving a position ROI 100% of the time
Lowering pharmacist and technician labor by 65%
Trimming inventory by up to 20%
Slashing expired medication costs by 90%
Integrating with the ROBOT-Ready™ PACMED™ high speed-packager to automate packaging

ROBOT-Rx integrates dispensing logic with MedCarousel®, McKesson Automation’s automated medication storage and retrieval system for hospital pharmacies. MedCarousel’s unique functionality delivers profound pharmacy efficiency improvements, including:

Reducing picking and restocking errors by 96%
Speeding the picking process by 50%
Shrinking cabinet fill time by 82%
Reducing tech training time by 85%
Increasing space efficiency by 60%

Fulfill-Rx ^sm combines the power of McKesson’s automation and distribution solutions to streamline inventory replenishment, automate inventory reordering, and optimize medication cabinet inventory.

McKesson’s IntelliShelf-Rx™ combines proven robotic software, radio frequency and bar-code scanning technologies to automate existing pharmacy pick stations. IntelliShelf-Rx is highly scalable, and designed to reduce medication dispensing errors, simplify manual tasks, and automate inventory control and management.

For more information, call 1-800-594-9145 to speak with a McKesson Automation Sales Representative, or send an e-mail by clicking below...

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ScriptPro

Pharmacy Category:
Automated Pharmacy Medication Systems : Pharmacy Automation

Robot Family

ScriptPro

ScriptPro offers a “family” of robotic prescription dispensing solutions to automate prescription fulfillment from point of entry to point of sale and beyond. Now, whether you’re filling 150 prescriptions or thousands per day, you can improve patient safety, handle increasing prescription volumes, solve staffing problems, and optimize your workflow.

All ScriptPro robots provide:

Filled and labeled vials with no cross-contamination.
Ability to track and accurately process partial fills.
Line drawing and description of drug printed on the label.
Ability to calibrate cells on-site in minutes.
System reports for inventory management, lot # tracking and drug utilization.

“The quality of the product is without equal. Even though there are several other robots on the market now, our investigations show that ScriptPro is still the way to go for pharmacy automation.”
--Mark Gregory, Vice President of Pharmacy and Government Relations,
Kerr Drug, Raleigh, NC

From point of entry to point of sale. ScriptPro technology meets your needs now and will grow with your pharmacy into the future. ScriptPro is the only source of support you need for all the automation that runs your pharmacy. One connection, one call, one company—a partner you can depend on to achieve Perfect Integration.

Workflow
Point of Sale
IVR
Long Term Care

Robotic Prescription Dispensing
Pharmacy Management System
Telepharmacy

See more ScriptPro technology at www.scriptpro.com

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TCGRx

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Automation, Pharmacy Workflow Solutions

TCGRx Automation

TCGRx

DRIVEN BY LIGHT, VERIFIED BY BARCODE

The ATP Series is the next generation technology for oral solid packing. TCG’s innovative and ground breaking software addresses market needs that have never before been addressed. The ATP Series is a practical, easy to use and innovative product that will keep your pharmacy up to speed now and in the future.

TCGRx offers pharmacy optimization across space, labor, and inventory. As demands on pharmacy have become increasingly more difficult to manage solutions have been offered to address the individual areas of need. TCGRx is the only company that looks at all facets of the pharmacy to bring a total solution that addresses today’s needs while leaving options open for the future.

ATP Series

Unit dose oral solid packaging
Multi dose oral solids packaging sizes allow for a variety of business and patient satisfaction needs
Expandable from 256, 324 or 384 oral solids
Redundant lower packaging units to ensure maximum uptime
Interfaces to virtually all existing software

OPS (Pick To Light) Storage and Retrieval System

Optimizes space, labor and inventory
Adds more capacity
Modular for easy reconfiguration
Increases Accuracy

Pharmatecture

Workflow and design services
Consult and formulate pharmacy footprint
Optimize space efficiency

WHETHER YOU ARE ABOUT TO PURCHASE OR HAVE PURCHASED PHARMACY AUTOMATION or STORAGE AND RETREIVAL SYSTEMS, TCGRX can be a valuable consultant and solutions provider for your pharmacy.

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medDISPENSE

Pharmacy Category:
Decentralized Nurse Medication Cabinets

MedDispense

Med-Dispense provides decentralized automated medication dispensing systems for health care facilities nationwide. Our systems are known for their low cost and high-capacity yet compact design.

The dispensing automation that most facilities desire is simply out of their price range. Med-Dispense delivers an affordable, robust system that even the smaller hospital can afford. Our systems use the latest interface technology, ensuring revenue capture as well as JCAHO compliance at a surprising low cost.

Compared to other vendors, our systems are undoubtedly the most affordable on the market today as well as the simplest to use.

• allow nursing access to medications with pharmacy control via centralized server

• reduce medication errors

• eliminate missing doses

• eliminate manual charge functions with interface functionality

• ensure accurate dispensing with profile interface

• enable freestanding functionality when network connectivity not feasible

Our software is the most intuitive dispensing system software available on the market today. Our systems were developed by healthcare professionals who preserved the objective of keeping training simple while preserving extensive functionality. Nurses can typically be trained on our systems in less than 7 minutes.

Full interface functionality is also available through the HL7 standard, including ADT, billing, profile, inventory, and formulary.

Because implementation issues that are involved with HL7 interface projects usually require custom development and extensive site analysis, MED-Dispense employs a team of analysts to serve as HL7 interface implementation specialists. These specialists will work with the medical facility and third party vendor developers on HL7 interface projects from the initial design phase until the interface is installed and in production.

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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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AccuChart™

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Automation : Bar Coding, Unit Dose Packaging Systems, Label Printing Software, Medication Carts

The Cadet® Series Solid Unit Dose/Barcode packaging systems use thermal transfer printing to allow easy readability of text, and accurate scanning of barcodes. All major barcodes are included. We offer four versions of solid unit dose packaging systems, with several options.

Choices of the Cadet® Series are:

Name
Cadet®
Cadet Twin®
Cadet Twin® 2x2

Speed
60/minute
120/minute
120/minute

Package Size
1.5” high x 2.0” wide
1.5” high x 1.5” wide
1.5” high x 2.0” wide

The Punch Cadet® does Robotic and Regular packaging

Name
Punch Cadet® (Robotic)
Punch Cadet® (Regular)

Speed
30/minute
60/minute

Package Size
3.0” high x 2.5” wide
1.5” high x 2.5” wide

The Speedy Wet Cadet® Liquid Unit Dose/Barcode packaging system uses thermal transfer printing. The Speedy Wet Cadet® can be used for small runs of 5 to 10 doses at a time or much larger runs of 100’s of doses at a time. The accuracy is +/- 1% with volumes from 1 ml. to 30 ml. Customers use the Speedy Wet Cadet® for non-available or non-barcoded liquid unit doses, or to save money by buying in bulk and repackaging (sometimes saving up to $1.00/dose).

Name
Speedy Wet Cadet®

Speed
32/minute

Cup Size
22 ml. or 44 ml.

The Cadet®, Cadet Twin®, Cadet Twin® 2x2, Punch Cadet®, and Speedy Wet Cadet® are trademarks of Euclid.

The AccuPack-SX® Large Item Unit Dose/Barcode packaging system uses thermal transfer printing to allow easy readability of text, and accurate scanning of barcodes. All major barcodes are included.

The AccuPack-SX® will package large items such as ampoules, vials, suppositories, syringes, etc. It will also package multiple item “kits”, and replenishment or par value packages to be sent to storage cabinets at the nursing station. Packaging speed is up to 35 per minute. A quiet, internal source of air blows open each bag without the typical noise of machines which use an external air compressor.

Package sizes go from 2.0” wide x 4.0” high up to 9.0” wide x 12.0” high with different types of materials available.

Numerous AccuPrint® Thermal Transfer Printers are available for printing barcode labels, product identification and other kinds of labels for pharmacy use. The labels can be very small labels, “Flag Labels”, or larger labels. The widths can be as small as 0.5” up to 8.0”. Label design software and onsite training are included.

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MEDICAL PACKAGING Inc.

Pharmacy Category:
Unit Dose Packaging Systems : Pharmacy Automation

Unit Dose Packaging Systems • Pharmacy Barcode Labeling • Packaging Materials • Fluidose

Medical Packaging Inc. was formed in the early 1970’s to satisfy the need for hospital pharmacies to unit dose package and label medications. It was the first company in the United States to design and market a bench scale strip packager for hospitals. Today, Medical Packaging Inc. is an international leader of pharmacy packaging systems for both oral solids and liquids. The company’s vision for the future is the ongoing development of systems and equipment to increase pharmacy productivity and patient compliance. Customer Base: Over 1600 hospitals, consulting pharmacies serving long term care, pharmaceutical research and development companies, and managed care companies worldwide. Current developments: Software package to allow patient specific labeling.

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TALYST
(Formerly INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE
SYSTEMS, Inc)

Pharmacy Category:
Bar Coding, Unit Dose Packaging Systems, Label Printing Software, Inventory Control, Automated Dispensing Technology

Engineering the Intelligent Pharmacy™

Talyst provides a comprehensive line of affordable automated equipment and intelligent software to pharmacies that package, barcode, store, and track drug inventories. Talyst’s AutoPharm® Solution combines AutoPharm software with AutoCarousel™ storage and retrieval automation. This solution controls your inventory and workflow creating efficiencies, optimizing staff resources, and reducing required storage space.

Talyst’s unique Barcode to Dose™ Solution provides barcode packaging and labeling for 100% of medications…oral-solids, I/Vs, ointments, inhalers, vials and ampoules. The solution provides a simple, affordable way to enable bedside scanning. Talyst also offers AutoSplit 340B™ split-billing software that processes and tracks your 340B usage to maximize contract savings and manage inventory. Also, Talyst exclusively distributes Kirby Lester Tablet Counters to the acute-care market. With 30 years experience, Kirby Lester provides inpatient and outpatient pharmacies with solutions to enhance productivity and minimize dispensing errors.

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AmerisourceBergen®

Pharmacy Category:
Pharmacy Automation Solution / Robotic Systems

AutoMed® Pharmacy Automation and Efficiency

AutoMed®, from the AmerisourceBergen Solutions Group, combines the most advanced prescription fulfillment technology with innovative products and services to help pharmacies:

Generate more productivity from everything and everyone in the pharmacy
Increase medication safety and prescription volume.
Manage operating costs, as well as growth in new markets or new patient care areas.
Improve the work environment and your return on investment.

We take a comprehensive, integrated approach to improving your pharmacy throughout -- not just its throughput. No other automation company offers more efficiency-enhancing capabilities:

scalable automation and robotic dispensing systems for all pharmacy environments: hospital inpatient and outpatient, retail, long-term care, assisted living, central fill and mail order, remote dispensing
Operational analysis
Flexible layout and design services
Ergonomic storage and retrieval systems
Workflow software for complete medication dispensing management
Interfacing
Customer-focused training

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