Pass-Thru Pharmacy Refrigerator from Helmer Scientific Create a boundary between the clean room and the regular facility environment while increasing productivity and inventory control. Isolate compounded drugs and improve inventory control. Pass-Thru Refrigerators i.Series® and Horizon Series™ Pass-Thru Refrigerators create a boundary between clean rooms and regular facility environments while permitting products to be removed outside the clean room on a “first-in-first-out” basis improving inventory control and boosting productivity. The design is smart and efficient, maintaining superior temperature uniformity and providing optimal alarm monitoring for the safe storage of high-value products. It’s the perfect blend of efficiency, reliability, and accuracy needed to meet productivity goals. For more information, email: sales@helmerinc.com or visit: www.helmerinc.com page 9 page 15 Summer 2013 I heal th system • infusi on 1 Contents WAY WAY WAY WAY Your Inventory Management Software Should Work for You Introducing MedPortal™ Inventory Management Software— the first inventory management software product designed to make inventory management easy, so you can focus on the critical challenges of drug shortages and healthcare reform. MedPortal automates medication management, giving you access to accurate, actionable information—regardless of facility size, number of storage locations, or automation level. Managing inventory shouldn’t be a challenge. Take control of your inventory with a software solution that tracks medication movements from your wholesaler to your patients. Contact Swisslog today for more information or to schedule a live demonstration. swisslog.com/medportal IQware Medication Therapy Management/ Disease State Management DISEASE STATE MANAGEMENT MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT ADVANCED CAPABILITIES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE You can trust IQware MTM/DSM to provide the advanced features you need to drive better results for your patients— and your organization. Depending on your needs, you can choose from the following essential tools. page 11 WAY WAY Improving Aseptic Compounding while Reducing Costs by Aseptic Enclosures XLTC Superior to typical cleanrooms and other isolators. This patent pending design provides the most aseptic environment attainable. It is safer, more efficient to use and much less expensive to operate and maintain. Talyst’s Expert 340B Solutions Talyst understands a pharmacy’s need to optimize its 340B savings. For almost 10 years, Talyst has supported over 400 health systems with their AutoSplit 340B software. Automation for Hospital Pharmacy Medication Management by Swisslog Swisslog medication management solutions optimize pharmacy operations by controlling the workflow from wholesaler ordering to packaging and dispensing to administration to the patient. IQware Medication Therapy Management (MTM)/Disease State Management (DSM) System Hospital, Retail and Independent Pharmacies can enable better results to prevent adverse drug complications, interaction conflicts and control costs. RMS EvolutionPOS for Hospital Pharmacies Increase outpatient pharmacy revenue and patient compliance while reducing readmission rates and Medicare fines with EvolutionPOS! Swisslog Healthcare Solutions swisslog.com/medportal | 800.764.0300 | healthcare@swisslog.com SwisslogHealthcareSolutions SwisslogNA SwisslogHCS MedPortal™ is a trademark of Swisslog AG. Enabling Better Results for Patients, Physicians, and Pharmacies To promote the safe and effective use of medications and help patients benefit from medication therapy, IQware designed the IQware Medication Therapy Management/Disease State Management (MTM/DSM) system. This comprehensive rule-based solution enables healthcare organizations (including hospital, retail & independent pharmacies) to quickly and cost-effectively develop applications to: • Enhance Patient Awareness About Medication Therapy • Prevent Adverse Drug Complications, Conflicts and Interactions • Control Costs What’s so special about a rule-based solution? Where traditional application development methods usually require significant investment in terms of time and money, IQware MTM/DSM is based on IQware’s unique, patented rulebased architecture and revolutionary development methodology. Offering a paradigm switch from traditional software and development practices, IQware MTM/DMS enables you to: • Modify applications on the fly, eliminating the costly software development cycle; enabling you to comply with evolving regulatory requirements. • Deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. • Enhance information management security using HP OpenVMS—the highly secure operating system that when deployed properly, has never been hacked. • Set permissions based on access control at the object layer, enforced by cryptography. • Streamline development and deployment, working with any data source and running on any equipment, from a desktop to a handheld. • Seamlessly interoperate and integrate with your data and current fulfillment system. www.iqwaresolutions.com | (877) 768-7284 Don’t become a headline in your local paper. Talk to RMS today. Local Hospital Fined for Poor Readmission Rates Sometown, USA In recent news, Sound Hospital will incur fines up to $2.2 million for its high readmission rates within 30 days. Local administrators were unavailable for comment, but reliable sources suspect EvolutionPOS TM to the rescue. Capture those scripts in-house, to benefit your patients and the hospital. Using EvolutionPOS, you can put full transaction capability right in the hands of pharmacy employees. With our mobile POS device, you can deliver discharge prescriptions, OTCs and counseling directly to the patient bedside, just before they are discharged. Ensure uninterrupted patient compliance, which can help to keep readmission rates low, while gaining the prescription revenue. EvolutionPOS smoothly and securely accomplishes this by collecting payment, recording electronic signatures, and documenting each transaction in real time. Contact us to discuss the best fit for your needs. The Leader in Pharmacy Point-of-Sale Innovation 1.877.767.1060 sales@rm-solutions.com www.rm-solutions.com/rx100 Follow us on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter With talyst’s 340B expert solutions, We are saving an additional $2 million in the first year. Philip Almeter Director of Pharmacy Operations and Business Development University of Kentucky the university of Kentucky medical Center is a nationally recognized health system with 140 outreach clinics and programs throughout Central and eastern Kentucky. uK medical Center has been a talyst customer for five years. With autosplit® fully managed, they’ve seen significant cost reductions that helped fund the health system’s pharmacy automation. in addition, uK medical Center has implemented autopharm® enterprise and autovault®. talyst is the leader in 340B splitting software. We understand a pharmacy’s need to optimize the value of the 340B program to improve patient care. With increasing complexity and the need for audit compliance, it’s critical to have the right solution. talyst offers a variety of 340B expert solutions: autosplit® 340B software, autosplit® fully managed, autosplit® Contract pharmacy, and 340B Complaince services. for over 10 years, talyst has supported over 400 health systems with their autosplit 340B solutions. are you audit ready? for more information, call 877.4.talyst x1 or info@talyst.com. talyst.com | 877.4.talyst True Blue. 800.743.5637 · www.helmerinc.com 20 Ways Ad - Way 4A - April 2013.indd 1 4/29/2013 8:09:36 AM page 13 page 17 page 19
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