Pharmacy Automation

KardexRemstar’s broad range of automated storage and retrieval solutions are currently used to automate hospital pharmacies throughout North America. To meet the changing and dynamic needs in the pharmacy automation market, KardexRemstar is proud to partner with McKesson for its MedCarousel^® solution.

The MedCarousel improves hospital pharmacy efficiency and improves medication safety through an automated vertical medication storage and retrieval system proven to dramatically increase dispensing accuracy in central and satellite pharmacies. Please go to the McKesson site to read and see more about pharmacy automation and the MedCarousel solution.

• Reduces picking and restocking errors by 96%
• Speeds picking process by 50%
• Shrinks cabinet fill time by 82%
• Reduces technician training time by 85%
• Increases inventory turns by up to 60%
• Improves space efficiency up to 60%
• Accurately manages and tracks inventory, and identifies expiring medications

• Utilizing rotating shelves, pick-to-light and bar-code scanning technologies, MedCarousel automates the processing of restock, first dose and scheduled medications. Its advanced software consolidates and manages pharmacy inventory in one central location. MedCarousel also works like a perpetual inventory management system. Its MedShelf software functionality manages contents of linked locations, such as refrigerator units.

Shore Memorial Hospital
Said Dr. Giacomelli, “By increasing our productivity through automation, we have been able to redeploy our pharmacists to provide more value-added, patient-focused, clinical work. For instance, we assigned one pharmacist who previously was involved in cart check duties to process medication orders in the emergency department 10 hours per day.”..…
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Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
“We improved our processes substantially by going to this hybrid distribution model. … we’ve gotten big medication safety and productivity boosts. And we’re making maximum use of the bar codes, including plans to move to Horizon Admin-Rx™ for point-of-care medication administration and documentation.”.....
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