Health Robotics Launches i.v.SOFT Global Beta Installation Program at the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists
By Health Robotics, PRNESunday, March 28, 2010
BOZEN, Sud-Tirol, Italy, March 29, 2010 - Health Robotics today announced the successful global launch of the Beta
Installation kick-off for its 3 latest i.v.SOFT Workflow Engine software
automation modules [Assist, Label+ and Profile] in Nice [France], the 2010
venue for the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists. i.v.SOFT helps
Pharmacy Technicians, I.V. Room Supervisors, and Pharmacy Directors to
compound and manage the safe and efficient manual production of IV Admixtures
according to hospital-defined sterile compounding guidelines, and to help
bring the pharmacies into compliance with USP 797 regulations in the United
States and GMP guidelines elsewhere.
"7 of the world's top-rated hospitals recently signed contracts for Beta
installations of i.v.SOFT Assist, Label+, and Profile to take place over the
next 6 months at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [London], Johannes
Gutenberg University of Mainz Hospital [Germany], Princess Margaret Hospital
[Toronto], The University of Chicago Medical Center, and The University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, with 3 additional leading
medical centers to be announced shortly. These 3 new software modules will be
integrated with the rest of the i.v.SOFT's solutions that were released to
the market in prior years [Cube, Dashboard, Worklist, Integration, Infusion].
A final software module (i.v.SOFT Track] will remain in development
throughout 2010", stated Werner Rainer, CEO of Health Robotics.
i.v.SOFT Assist constitutes an ideal complement to CytoCare and
i.v.STATION both as a means to back-up robotic devices and to direct excess
IV Admixture production demand and non-standard IV consumables (i.e. cassette
pumps, ampoules, glass bottles, IV doses requiring the use of CSTDs, etc.)
towards Laminar Airflow Hoods equipped with Health Robotics' life-critical
i.v.SOFT software . Additionally, i.v.SOFT Assist provides the means to
ensure that all IVs [not just those IVs produced by CytoCare and i.v.STATION]
are: i) free of life-threatening drug-exchange errors; ii) supported by
tele-pharmacy functionality for pharmacist's secure review and approval; iii)
compounded by pharmacy technicians with a minimum 95% accuracy; and iv)
manufactured with no or minimal waste through its unique proactive alerts to
technicians during the Admixture preparation (as opposed to competitor's
products reliance on retrospective review which causes costly "re-makes").
i.v.SOFT Label+, when combined with i.v.STATION or CytoCare represents
unlimited flexibility in IV labels, including large multi-page administration
instructions for example in chemotherapy or full-color labels for anesthesia.
As a result of Anesthesia Therapy suffering from serious patient safety
challenges., numerous regulatory bodies offer guidelines for medication
labeling. Label+ aids in filling this need by helping ensure compliance with
these guidelines, while improving workflow, efficiency, and accuracy; it
produces full-color labels that comply with the 2010 National Safety Patient
Goals of The Joint Commission (TJC) and American Society of Anesthesiologists
(ASA) Guidelines.
Exactly like its companion i.v.STATION Profile, i.v.SOFT Profile provides
IV Room Supervisors with the ability to remotely observe and manage complete
audit trails of the IV Admixture process without needing to "gown-up" and
enter the IV Room. These Tele-Dispensing features provide the added benefit
to supervise IV Admixture compounding tasks from locations outside the
Pharmacy [and within and outside the Health-System] via secure intranet
access, therefore enabling optimization of scarce pharmacy resources.
About Health Robotics:
Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of
life-critical intra-venous medication robots, providing healthcare facilities
in 5 continents with robotics technology and software automation solutions.
Its world-leading solutions CytoCare(TM) [hazardous IVs], i.v.STATION(TM)
[non-hazardous IVs], i.v.SOFT(TM) [workflow engine for manual compounding,
powered by MEDarchiver], and TPNstation(TM) [totally-automated parenteral
nutrition] have and will greatly contribute to ease hospitals' growing
pressures to improve patient safety, increase throughput and contain costs.
Through the effective and efficient production of sterile, accurate,
tamper-evident and ready-to-administer IVs, Health Robotics' solutions help
hospitals eliminate life-threatening drug-exchange errors, decrease other
therapy oversights and sterility risks, work more efficiently, reduce waste
and controlled substances' diversion, and diminish the gap between rising
patient volume/acuity and scarce nursing and pharmacy staff. For more
information, please visit www.health-robotics.com
For additional information, please contact: Health Robotics S.r.l. Gaspar G. DeViedma, Executive V.P., General Counsel, and Member of the Board of Directors Italy: +39-346-963-4934 USA: +1-609-980-7976 Canada: +1-289-470-1456 Malaysia: +60-321-848-223 gaspar.deviedma@health-robotics.com <end table>
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