Carefusion automates IV room for hospital pharmacies

SAN DIEGO, USA: CareFusion, a leading global medical technology company, has announced a new suite of technologies that will revolutionize automation within a hospital pharmacy IV room and enhance enterprise-wide medication management solution for all dosage forms of pharmaceuticals.

Pyxis technologies from CareFusion are comprised of hardware and software components that help hospitals maximize safety and efficiency when receiving, storing, compounding, delivering, administering and returning IV medications across a hospital. The solution is built on the Pyxis Pharmogistics software offering and is augmented with new technologies made possible through the Pyxis ES platform.

According to Rusty Frantz, senior vice president and general manager of Dispensing for CareFusion: "As hospitals and health systems are shifting the care model from fee-for-service to managing population health, enterprise platforms are required to enable the standardization of processes, technologies and systems," Our new Pyxis technologies help to standardize, automate and optimize the medication process and realize our vision of enterprise-wide medication management for all dosage forms."