I became aware of Rowa Vmax a few weeks ago when I read an article about CareFusion purchasing the small German-based company.
From the Rowa brochure:
The Vmax Hospital from Rowa provides hospital pharmacists with an extremely flexible and high performance storage and dispensing system. When combined with the wide range of product options (almost) any thing is possible:
- High level of scalability in terms of capacity and speed
- Input speed per machine: up to 900 packs per hour
- Output speed per machine: up to 2,000 packs per hour
- Safety features: UPS, backup storage drive, stock scan, user identification with various permissions, refrigerator with data logger
- Recording of expiry dates and batch numbers
- Conveyor system: for optimised stock picking and commissioning for the wards
Combined with perfect integration into the hospital’s stock control system the result is clear, streamlined medicines management.
Stock intake, recording, storage and order picking for the wards: all of these previously manual activities can be done with Rowa in a fraction of the time normally required. Qualified personnel can now do qualified work, on the wards for example. This is a huge advantage, especially in times of increasing pressure on hospital staff budgets.