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Bedside Medication Verification - EMAR

The Medi-Dose® Group, known for its innovative solid and liquid oral unit dose packaging systems, has always had deep roots---family roots. This is not surprising since Medi-Dose began as a small family business. Medi-Dose was founded in 1971 when Milton Braverman, a former pharmaceutical company Territory Manager, formed his own company.

While developing Medi-Dose, we were often asked for other products. "Hey...why don't you have...?" "Yo, I need... Can you get it for me?" So, we started EPS® , Inc. We were asked about liquid packaging to complement our solid oral systems. So, we developed TampAlerT®. We were asked about IV preparation. So we developed a line of IV additive disposable accessories. Filters? Yes! Tapes & Labels? Done! Trays, totes and bins? You got it! Bags? Absolutely! And that is how the EPS product line grew to what it is today.

MILT® Makes It Easy!
Medi-Dose Information labeling Technology

MILT® the dynamic new unit dose labeling software for the Medi-Dose® and EPS LiquidDose® packaging systems, offers innovative bar coding, increased security and enhanced medication identification awareness - all for a surprisingly affordable price. Using advanced technology, MILT® by Medi-Dose® makes it easy to achieve optimum accurate, protection and performance for all your solid and liquid unit dose syringe and ampule labeling needs.

Integrated Solutions
QuickMAR is an electronic medication administration record, or e-MAR, for use in a long-term care setting, such as assisted living homes or skilled nursing facilities. But QuickMAR is more than just an electronic MAR. It also provides seamless integration with the pharmacy software, allowing the pharmacy and the facility to work closely to provide the very best level of service.

Connectivity
Through the QuickMAR communication module, pharmacies and Long Term Care (LTC) facilities are connected in real time. New medications or treatments are fed directly into QuickMAR. In addition, the facility can instantly notify the pharmacy of changes, re-order medications and supplies, or communicate other important information.

Features
QuickMAR is an electronic medication administration record, or e-MAR, for use in a long-term care setting, such as assisted living homes or skilled nursing facilities.

• Touch screen navigation
• Bar-code scanning of medication
• Quick and accurate recording of a med pass
• More accurate med passes
• One-touch reordering of meds and supplies
• A pharmacy software interface that eliminates double data entry
• Multi-lingual

Benefits

• Reduced number of medication errors
• Reduce time for a med pass by up to 50%
• Improved inventory management-never run out of PRN meds again
• Constant communication with pharmacy-no more wondering about the next delivery

Value
QuickMAR simplifies and speeds up the process of passing medications. For large med passes, you may experience time savings of over 50%. Most importantly, the system improves the accuracy of your med passes with alarms, warnings and improved communications.

• Alarms to keep you on schedule to administer the meds on time.
• Alarms to prevent missed meds
• More accurate administration of meds
• More accurate record keeping of what was given to whom, by whom and when or what was refused
• More accurate tracking of the controlled drugs
• Timely reordering of PRNs; less chance of ever running out of medications.
• More accurate receipt and check in of medication deliveries
• More accurate records for medication destruction
• Shorter med passes
• Faster med check-in at cycle fills
• Faster documentation at med return or destruction

SafetyMed: Ensuring Everything is Right Times 5 and More

SafetyMed™ is a software solution that enables clinicians to increase patient safety and be more efficient in the medication administration process. At the bedside, your SafetyMed solution is accessed through a standard Web browser via your wireless network. In addition to performing bar code verification at the patient’s bedside, the SafetyMed solution automates many other routine, time-consuming bedside tasks for the nurse.

The SafetyMed solution is fully integrated with Omnicell’s top-rated OmniRx® medication dispensing system and the OmniCenter server, making implementation fast. The SafetyMed solution can optionally be integrated with our smart mobile cart to provide safe, secure storage and transport of medications from the cabinet to the bedside.

Omnicell SafetyMed™ Key Features

Features:

• Verification of the five rights at the point of medication administration
• Secure storage and transport of medications between the cabinet and bedside in patient-specific drawers on our optional smart mobile cart
• Verification of pharmacy order entry against physician orders
• Real-time access to all order and administration information at the bedside
• Flagging of early or overdue medications
• Documentation of administration notes
• Response checks to first-time administrations
• Logging of all warnings and overrides
• HIPAA-compliant
• Common database ensures true integration between Omnicell medication dispensing cabinets and SafetyMed

OMNICELL OVERVIEW
Omnicell is a leading provider of medication control and patient safety solutions for acute healthcare facilities. Since 1992, the company has worked with more than 1,100 hospitals who have installed Omnicell products to safely and efficiently manage the inventory, packaging and distribution of medications, from the hospital central pharmacy to nursing stations for administration to patients at their bedside.

Complete Barcoding Solutions to Enable BPOC

AutoMed® FastPak™ oral solid packaging and bar coding systems package medications in both unit dose and multi-dose formats. FastPak’s compliance packaging enhances tracking and reduces manual picking, thereby reducing the potential for errors. Instruments range from the economical FastPak Tabletop to the revolutionary FastPak EXP for mid- to large-formulary pharmacies.

On the nursing floors, barcoding is maximized by MedSelect® automated dispensing cabinets. MedSelect cabinets store pharmaceutical and medical products by barcode and track cabinet inventory, usage by patient, usage by provider, and other critical data. MedSelect ensures medications are scanned at restock and dispense. This step ensures the correct medication was removed from the compartment. Because doses are removed individually, the ability to catch a mis-stocked medication increases dramatically.

Combined, the solutions from the AmerisourceBergen Technology Group facilitate inventory management systems to control costs. Improved inventory control can only be achieved if all medications can be tracked through an entire hospital. Barcoding is typically required to effectively utilize any inventory management system such as Dimension21®.

The AmerisourceBergen Technology Group offers the pharmacy industry's most flexible, most comprehensive approaches to enhance medication safety and improve efficiency through barcoding.

Versatile unit dose barcoded packaging for bulk medications and other unit dose forms

Swisslog’s PillPick system bar-code packages, stores and dispenses unit dose medications. Unit doses are automatically placed by PillPicker, Swisslog’s pharmacy packaging unit, into bar-code labeled bags and sealed. Bulk pharmaceuticals are packaged, barcoded, and labeled into unit doses. Unit doses are then automatically placed into storage for future retrieval and dispensing to nursing units on PickRings labeled for patients or dispensing cabinets.

The advantages of PillPick are:

Fully Integrated and Automated
Decreases human touches, reduces medication errors, and enhance patient safety

Multi-Tasking
Packages and dispenses first doses to cart fill or cabinets simultaneously

Efficiency
Improves staff utilization while dispensing and delivering medications at faster rates

Inventory Management
Improves tracking and minimizes waste

Manages Medication Returns
Automatically restocks medications into PillPick and credits the patient account