Optimized Pharmacy Workflows With Swisslog Healthcare From Inventory Management to CSC | Swisslog Healthcare [VIDEO]

Deliver exceptional patient care with innovations from the core of the central pharmacy to enhance performance workflow efficiency, improve accuracy, and increase safety.

Company Background

Headquartered in Westminster, CO, Swisslog Healthcare has been delivering best-in-class automation solutions and services for more than 100 years. At Swisslog Healthcare, we lead change for better care. Our focus is on improving workflows and reducing the time clinicians spend doing repetitive tasks — enabling more time for patient care. Discover how our pharmacy automation solutions can boost efficiency, improve care, and reduce costs at www.swisslog-healthcare.com.

Product Overview

Hospitals today are held to increasingly higher accountability for the overall patient experience. The timely dispense and delivery of correct medications are critical to improving patient outcomes and fostering a positive experience. Whether on a large scale or small, the right automation can enhance patient safety, decrease medication waste and drug shortages, reduce costs, and enable staff to spend more time focusing on clinical activities. Swisslog Healthcare enables forwardthinking health systems to create a connected medication ecosystem.

Features & Options

BoxPicker® Automated Pharmacy Storage System provides pharmacies with secure, high-density, modular storage of medications, controlling access, improving pharmacy workflows, and expediting the picking process. The modular design of the BoxPicker enables hospitals to tailor the system to their exact needs. The ability to add multiple operator stations allows for simultaneous operations, significantly increasing efficiency as one technician can stock medications while another can complete dispensing activities. Automated medication storage and retrieval not only eliminates picking errors and increases safety at dispense, but also creates, a more efficient pharmacy workflow. Designed to eliminate the need for static shelving, BoxPicker allows pharmacy staff to focus on clinical tasks and spend less time locating, picking, and verifying medications.

PillPick® Automated Packaging and Dispensing System is a completely automated solution that decreases human touches in packaging, storing, dispensing, and returning unit-dose medications. The patented PickRing® delivers patient-specific medication on a single ring ready for administration, reducing the opportunity for missed medications and speeding up administration time. With the ultimate automated pharmacy system for patient safety and operational efficiency, nurses can spend more time delivering high-quality care.

Consolidated Service Centers (CSCs) or Integrated Service Centers (ISCs) enable forward-thinking organization to combat challenges presented by an increasingly complex supply chain by centralizing supply chain and pharmacy operations off-site. Partnering with Swisslog Healthcare for CSC implementations helps healthcare organizations actualize their CSC goals and maximize benefits from streamlined pharmacy operations. Effective CSCs automate manual processes and standardize workflows, improving operations system wide.

AutoPack™ Automated Oral Solid Packager is an oral solid packager that integrates easily with pharmacy operations to provide fully automated, patient specific, unit-dose or multi-dose oral solid medication packaging, ensuring that 100% of medications are scan-ready at the bedside.

ezCUT Automated Tablet Cutter might be compact in size, but offers unparalleled optimization. Tablets of varying sizes (round and oblong) are flawlessly halved, and damaged or irregular tablets are automatically discarded — ensuring the accuracy of every dose. Manually cutting tablets is time-consuming and strenuous, but automating the process with ezCUT saves time and energy, allowing pharmacy staff to focus on high-value clinical tasks. ezCUT can be used as a standalone solution or complementary to either the PillPick® or AutoPack™.

AutoCarousel® Semi-Automated Pharmacy Storage System, together with medication management software, transforms medication management by reducing labor, drug waste, missing medications, and picking mistakes. AutoCarousel is accurate and reliable, and the vertical design ensures maximal storage in a compact footprint. In addition, AutoCarousel helps pharmacies ensure medication safety with password-protected access and barcode scanning during the stocking and dispensing processes to track the chain of custody and manage all items comprehensively.

Delivery Manager is a sophisticated application that enables your hospital to achieve a complete chain of custody, ensuring compliance, control, and, most importantly, patient safety. The Delivery Manager application reports carrier locations, identifies the sender and receiver, and enables visibility into carrier contents. Adding the Delivery Manager application to your TransLogic pneumatic tube system technology helps department leaders in your facility gain ultimate visibility into what is being delivered throughout the hospital. When Delivery Manager is combined with RFID, WhoTube® and timely software updates from TransLogic, your facility achieves a complete chain-of-custody. Implementing intelligent tracking with Delivery Manager provides a single point of control, accountability, and traceability throughout the entire delivery process — from your tube system to your manual transport.

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