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Terri Albarano, PharmD Director, Autonomous Pharmacy, Omnicell Sterilecompounding safety is one of the biggest challenges for the pharmacy supply chain. million preventable adverse drug events a year , resulting in $5.1 An ISMP Pulse Check of SterileCompounding Practices” as part of Omnicell Illuminate 2020.
So why, as clinicians, are we not focused on improving the documented one in 10 inaccuracies in sterilecompounded products? Dave has been a leader in adoption of IV automation and will share how IV compounding robot and iv workflow solutions are improving safety and helping to reduce errors across all areas of sterilecompounding.
Dennis Wright Senior Director, Central Pharmacy Dispensing Services, Omnicell As disruption and uncertainty in the supply of IV medications from outsourced compounding facilities continues, health system pharmacies should reevaluate how they are managing sterilecompounding needs. 23 at 1 pm ET.
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Stephanie Gallagher, PharmD, MBA Senior Clinical Product Marketing Manager, Omnicell The sterilecompounding industry has been under great scrutiny due to alarming frequency and severity of adverse events from IV compounding, such as the New England Compounding Center catastrophe in 2012.
Sterilecompounding is also one of the costliest functions in pharmacy operations. Still, many hospital pharmacies continue to struggle to improve safety and efficiency in their sterilecompounding operations. Insourcing IV compounding services at Moses H. The number of improperly prepared IVs is staggering.
The multiple high-profile cases of errors and suboptimal events in IV outsourced compounding facilities, medical centers, and health system pharmacy departments highlight the need for modern automated solutions to avoid such failure. There is a growing demand for solutions with safety checks and forced functions.
Fewer than 15% of healthcare systems currently automate sterilecompounding, yet in an average outpatient pharmacy, it is estimated that four medication errors occur every single day.
Fewer than 15% of healthcare systems currently automate sterilecompounding, yet in an average outpatient pharmacy, it is estimated that four medication errors occur every single day.
If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterilecompounding. What does it mean when a pharmacy is compounding?
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