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Omnicell and Fresenius Kabi Join Forces to Improve Controlled Substance Management

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Tara Plappert Product Marketing Manager Hospitals and clinics face a significant challenge when dealing with controlled substances. More concerning, on average, it takes about 22 months for a hospital to discover an incident of diversion. And according to the 2019 Drug Diversion Digest , 47.2

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Why Innovative Hospitals Like Sentara Are Fully Automating Their Central Pharmacy

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Director, Product Marketing, Omnicell Hospitals that continue to manually manage medications in the central pharmacy are playing a dangerous game. Yet for many hospitals, the fear of change keeps many pharmacies stuck with archaic solutions and processes that inevitably lead to problems. Sentara is not one of those hospitals.

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Discover the Keys to Develop a System-wide Medication Management Strategy

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Lani Bertrand, RPh Senior Director, Clinical Consulting, Omnicell It’s more challenging than ever to effectively manage the distribution of medications across the health system. Many hospitals have never done a system-wide self-assessment, nor do they know their options – models and technologies – to drive improvements.

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Why IV Automation Is Critical for Sterile Compounding

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Stephanie Gallagher, PharmD, MBA Senior Clinical Product Marketing Manager, Omnicell Imagine if Amazon lost one out of every 10 packages. Or the airlines lost 10% of passenger bags. As consumers this would be unacceptable.

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A Matter of Medication Distribution Models

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Luke's University Hospital in eastern Pennsylvania. For years, the hospital employed a cart fill model, supported by automated carousel and robot technology in the central pharmacy. Hospital patients received medications through delivery to server boxes outside their rooms. Conversely, Donna talked about St.

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How the XR2 System Reduced Dispensing Errors by 92% for Summa Health

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XR2 offered two key advantages – flexibility to support multiple distribution models including centralized, decentralized, or hybrid, and the ability to store and dispense many different form factors in their native manufacturer packaging. One of the most exciting features of XR2 is the dispensing accuracy.

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A 340B Pricing Success Story and Recommendations for Improvement

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The government only moved forward after hospital groups sued HRSA in 2018 over the ceiling price and CMP mandate and only after health centers and HIV and AIDS clinics sued over the ADR system. This includes the average manufacturer price (AMP), the unit rebate amount, the ceiling price, package size, and other elements.