Pyxis MedStation® equipment

Automated medication management

Pyxis MedStation® system from CareFusion is a leading automated dispensing system supporting decentralized medication management for medical equipment in hospital setting such in the wards, ICU, NICU, CICU, etc. Barcode scanning to help ensure accurate medication dispensing, features to prevent loading of the wrong medication and active alerts to provide an added safety precaution for high risk medications are just a few of the ways the Pyxis MedStation system can help your facility support safe and efficient medication management.
By taking full advantage of the Pyxis MedStation system, the Hospital of Saint Raphael was able to decrease their time to first dose by 94%, and free up pharmacist time to launch an anticoagulant management program in support of NPSG 3E.1

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• Maximize the security of high-risk and high-alert medications with the proprietary CUBIE® pocket technology.
• Integrate the Pyxis MedStation system with Pyxis Connect, Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center saw a reduction in order turnaround time from 2.5 hours to 16 minutes. 2
• Increase medication availability through decentralized medication management. A study of seven hospitals indicates that as the number of medications managed through ADCs increases, the result is reduced time to first dose and fewer missing doses.3
• Help decrease the risk of diversion and increase medication safety with the Med Analytics service for the Pyxis MedStation system.
• Helps prevent loading of specific medications on specific devices with block loading
• Helps nurses verify they are removing the correct medication as intended with barcode scan on remove
• Helps reduce chances of the wrong medication in the wrong pocket with barcode scan on refill and load
• Warns a nurse if the wrong dose is about to be removed
• Provides expanded patient allergy information to include comprehensive data from ADT and PIS systems
• Provides current online Lexicomp drug reference information*
• Provides patient education for medications in multiple languages with online Lexicomp access*
• Helps nurses reduce time spent on medication inventory counts by counting only accessed inventory

• Saves time with a singular medication search list, including both brand and generic drug names
• Saves nurses time in locating medications in other devices with global find
• Increases safety of medication removal on other devices by using the patient’s profile with global remove
• Alerts nurse of medication removals where the dose removed exceeded the ordered dose with undocumented waste
• Improves precision and accuracy of user access with biometric identification using spectral imaging technology
• Streamlines patient billing reconciliation of temporary patients and permanent patients
• Enables easy reconciliation of temporary accounts and inpatient accounts
• Supports IT initiatives for operating system standardization with the ability to migrate to Windows 2008 server and Windows 7*
• Reduces IT maintenance through support of DHCP/DNS configurations (stations only)
• Reduces efforts to manage synchronous time across hospital devices and eliminates disruptions from daylight savings changes
• Provides easy access to printed reports available on network printers* (console and workstation only)