Central Med Automation Service is intended to streamline medication dispensing from a central fulfillment area throughout the entire health system enterprise, which is expected to enhance inventory visibility, scalability, and patient safety.
“As the health system enterprise grows, we find that traditional methods of medication management can lead to multi-vendor environments that may complicate workflows, often creating unnecessary redundancy and increasing chances for error,” said Randall Lipps, chairman, president, chief executive officer, and founder of Omnicell.
“Pharmacy leaders recognize the potential value of centralizing pharmacy services, but often lack the capital budgets, resources, and expertise necessary to transform their infrastructure and scale it over time. Omnicell’s Central Med Automation Service is designed to help health systems develop and execute a central fill strategy while providing the expert support necessary to help ensure this environment meets current and future medication management needs.”
Central Med Automation Service is intended to seamlessly integrate enterprise-wide robotics, smart devices, and intelligent software with expert services in an effort to help health systems establish and continuously optimize their centralized pharmacy operations to support medication management at acute care, remote clinics, and community sites. Central Med Automation Service includes:
Robotics & Smart Devices:
XR2 Automated Central Pharmacy System: Advanced medication storage and dispensing robotics are designed to automate critical fulfillment workflows, decrease human error, and maximize inventory control. With 100% barcode scanning and soonest-to-expire dispense capability, these robotics aim to improve inventory visibility, enhance efficiency, and increase patient safety – which should free pharmacy staff to focus on clinical initiatives rather than manual tasks.
Several complementary robotics, smart devices, and software tools can be added to extend the capabilities and potential value of Central Med Automation Service. These include Omnicell’s suite of pharmacy carousels and packagers, 340B program management software, and Central Pharmacy Manager Mobile Workstation, a new offering that is designed to untether pharmacy personnel from fixed terminals to accelerate order fulfillment.
“Medications are complex and managing them is even more complex, particularly at a time when we’re challenged with growing drug and pharmacy technician shortages,” said Nilesh Desai, RPh, CPPS, chief pharmacy officer at Baptist Health. “Centralizing pharmacy services helps us address these challenges in an effort to provide better and safer care to our patients and communities. Achieving this vision would not have been possible without business partners like Omnicell who, through Central Med Automation Service, have a stake in the game to make us successful.”
Central Med Automation Service provides the flexibility to support hub and spoke, warehouse, and hybrid approaches to centralizing pharmacy operations, which is intended to help health systems move closer to the industry vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy that seeks to replace manual, error-prone activities with automated processes that are safer and more efficient.
About Omnicell:
Since 1992, Omnicell has been committed to transforming pharmacy care through outcomes-centric innovation designed to optimize clinical and business outcomes across all settings of care. Through a comprehensive portfolio of robotics, smart devices, intelligent software, and expert services, Omnicell solutions are helping healthcare facilities worldwide to reduce costs, improve labor efficiency, establish new revenue streams, enhance supply chain control, support compliance, and move closer to the industry vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy.
For more information please visit, www.omnicell.com.
