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Cool Pharmacy Technology–KitCheck

Jan 092012

Anyone that’s ever worked in an acute care pharmacy knows about med trays, code trays, transport boxes, intubation kits, etc. They’re a bit of a headache because all the medications inside each kit has to be manually manipulated and tracked, including the dreaded lot number and expiration date of everything in the trays.

Well, KitCheck is a system that uses RFID technology to track the medications found in all those different med trays, code boxes, etc. I thought it was pretty cool. It’s a great idea. Wish I would have thought of it.

Cool Pharmacy Technology – ZiuZ Inspector

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Jan 042012

The ZiuZ Inspector – or is it the Foresee Inspector – is an interesting system designed to inspect the contents of unit dose packages produced by high-speed unit dose packagers. I don’t think there’s much need for this in most acute care pharmacy operations here in the U.S. because we don’t unit dose enough tablets and/or capsules to make it worth while, but I do think it may have potential in some long-term care pharmacies using a central dispensing model. Who knows, that’s not really my area of expertise.
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Cool Pharmacy Technology – Eyecon Pill Counter

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Dec 172011

Scan the bottle
Pour the tablets onto the Eyecon Pill Counter counting platter. The Eyecon Pill Counter uses “Machine vision technology” to count the tablets.
Package the tablets

That’s pretty simple. Sure beats the heck out of counting the tablets by hand. 5…10…15…20….

More information on the Eyecon Pill Counter can be found here.

Cool Pharmacy Tech – SEA Medical Systems

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Dec 132011

I saw IV Check by SEA Medical Systems at the ASHP Midyear Conference last week. This is one of the coolest, most innovative pieces of technology I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve thought about real-time liquid medication identification in the past, here and here. I had the pleasure of seeing IV Check in action. Cool.

Cool Pharmacy Technology–DAP Personal Med Manager

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Nov 302011

I came across the HealthOneMed Dispense-A-Pill (DAP) Personal Medication Manager while surfing the ‘net one afternoon earlier this week. It’s basically a miniature ADU with pie-shaped wedge slots for personal medications. I thought it was pretty slick.

Cool Pharmacy Technology–Demolizer II

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Nov 172011

I’m at the MEDICA World Forum for Medicine in Düsseldorf Germany this week. While I haven’t seen much in the way of pharmacy related products, I did come across something that I thought was pretty cool. The brochure I grabbed said it was the “Sharps Waste Eliminator” by GMP (Global Medi Products). However when I went to the GMP website for more information I couldn’t find mention of it anywhere. A little creative Googling led me to the BMTS Corp site where I found the device I was looking for. Someone should have a talk with the marketing folks at GMP. Just sayin’.

Accurate Assessment of Adherence (man vs. machine) [abstract]

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Oct 232011

A recent article in Chest¹ demonstrates the value of electronic data collection in medication adherence. In this case it was inhalation therapy in cystic fibrosis patients. This type of article is important as we consider the future of electronic health records and where the data for such records should come. Remember, people are notoriously unreliable historians while computers don’t lie.

Cool Football Technology

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Oct 122011

technology review:

Dan Garza, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine, and his team recently completed a study of the mouth guards using crash-test dummies, and plan to publish the data soon…

Garza believes that the mouth guards may turn out to be more accurate than helmets because they don’t shift as much during impact. They also read forces inside the skull more closely, and they’re cheaper…. The Stanford studies will collect data from the mouthpieces as well as video of plays, when available, and clinical information about players’ injuries.

Seriously, how cool is that. Leave it to Stanford – yes that wonderful school just up the road from where I live – to make science fun. How can you go wrong applying science to football?

You can read more about impact sensing mouthguards at the X2IMPACT website here.

Cool Pharmacy Technology–RevVac Syringe

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Oct 082011

I suppose this could really be cool tech for nursing or lab, but I thought it was worth having a deeper look.

The ReVac Retracting Safety Syring by Revolutions Medical “use a proprietary patented technology in which a vacuum causes the needle to retract into the barrel of the syringe or device after an injection is administered or blood is drawn.”

According to the Revolutions Medical website “[t]he RevVac™ Safety Syringe and Phlebotomy (blood drawing) Device operate the same as a standard syringe and device. No additional training, skills, or procedures are necessary. The both products work on a vacuum principle, where pressing the plunger in them creates a vacuum. When the plunger reaches the bottom, the needle is captured. A further push on the plunger breaks the seal, and the needle retracts into the plunger barrel. The vacuum is maintained, so the needle cannot be removed from the plunger.”

Augmented reality for chemists [video]

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Oct 052011

Boing Boing: “In a very cool video from Chemical and Engineering News, Art Olson of the Scripps Research Institute explains how chemists in his lab can predict how well the drugs they develop will work.

Olson’s lab prints 3D models of molecular structures, both targets—like the HIV protease enzyme in the video—and the drugs they’ve made to bond to those targets. The models are rigged up so that when Olson holds them in front of a webcam, they instantly interact with chemical analysis software his team has built. The result is a system that allows researchers to see, physically, how well the drugs fit their targets, and simultaneously test how well the two are likely to bond on a chemical level.”

A 3D printed molecule with augmented reality! This is downright awesome. There’s no other way to say it. Drug development will never be the same. The only question I have is… where can I get one for myself?

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Cool Pharmacy Technology–KitCheck

Cool Pharmacy Technology – ZiuZ Inspector

Cool Pharmacy Technology – Eyecon Pill Counter

Cool Pharmacy Tech – SEA Medical Systems

Cool Pharmacy Technology–DAP Personal Med Manager

Cool Pharmacy Technology–Demolizer II

Accurate Assessment of Adherence (man vs. machine) [abstract]

Cool Football Technology

Cool Pharmacy Technology–RevVac Syringe

Augmented reality for chemists [video]

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