Pharmacy Optimization Solutions Reduce Costs While Improving Quality

Automation solutions help healthcare organizations safely and efficiently manage key pharmacy operations, including medication ordering, dispensing, administration, charge capture, and inventory management.

Among the McKesson hospital pharmacy automation solutions are the AcuDose-Rx medication dispensing cabinets, which allow hospital nurses to dispense medications faster and more efficiently, while leaving pharmacists a greater control over cabinet inventory management. The AcuDose-Rx functions in any dispensing environment, with the proprietary RightStock “set it and forget it” feature automatically monitoring and adjusting medication levels based on usage, thus reducing expensive stock outs and waste. As a result, hospital pharmacists can better manage inventories and help ensure that needed medications are readily available.

The McKesson Point of Use Supply solution helps improve inventory control and streamline caregiver involvement with supply duties, especially in critical profit centers like cardiology and surgery. The solution simplifies hospital supply chain management by automating critical supply functions at the point of use, including requisitioning, patient charging, inventory management, and information capture with a single scan. The integrated offering incorporates open bins, bar codes, mobile carts, and cabinets, including radio frequency identification (RFID) options.

The solutions (and others) are supported by the Connect-Rx software release, which helps automate and integrate medication automation solutions from the bedside to the loading dock, allowing hospital pharmacists to spend less administrative time making inventory decisions and analyzing reports. The hospital pharmacy automation solutions are products of McKesson (San Francisco, CA, USA).

“The hospital pharmacy represents 25% of an average hospital’s total inventory value, so pharmacy inventory management is critical to the bottom line,” said Kraig McEwen, president of McKesson Automation, on the occasion of 3 ,000 acute-care member hospitals of Amerinet (St. Louis, MO, USA), a leading US national healthcare solutions organization, implementing the solutions. “Amerinet hospital members can now leverage a comprehensive, integrated set of pharmacy automation solutions from a single provider while benefitting from Amerinet’s purchasing efficiencies.”

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