Omnicell (OMCL) Announces Central Med Automation Service

Omnicell, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMCL), a leader in transforming the pharmacy care delivery model, today announced Central Med Automation Service, a subscription-based solution designed to help health systems establish and continuously optimize centralized medication management for Consolidated Pharmacy Services Centers (CPSCs) and similar operations. Central Med Automation Service is intended to streamline medication dispensing from a central fulfillment area throughout the entire health system enterprise, which is expected to enhance inventory visibility, scalability, and patient safety.

“As the health system enterprise grows, we find that traditional methods of medication management can lead to multi-vendor environments that may complicate workflows, often creating unnecessary redundancy and increasing chances for error,” said Randall Lipps, chairman, president, chief executive officer, and founder of Omnicell. “Pharmacy leaders recognize the potential value of centralizing pharmacy services, but often lack the capital budgets, resources, and expertise necessary to transform their infrastructure and scale it over time. Omnicell’s Central Med Automation Service is designed to help health systems develop and execute a central fill strategy while providing the expert support necessary to help ensure this environment meets current and future medication management needs.”

Central Med Automation Service is intended to seamlessly integrate enterprise-wide robotics, smart devices, and intelligent software with expert services in an effort to help health systems establish and continuously optimize their centralized pharmacy operations to support medication management at acute care, remote clinics, and community sites. Central Med Automation Service includes:

Robotics & Smart Devices

XR2 Automated Central Pharmacy System: Advanced medication storage and dispensing robotics are designed to automate critical fulfillment workflows, decrease human error, and maximize inventory control. With 100% barcode scanning and soonest-to-expire dispense capability, these robotics aim to improve inventory visibility, enhance efficiency, and increase patient safety – which should free pharmacy staff to focus on clinical initiatives rather than manual tasks.

Software

Central Pharmacy Manager for Central Med Automation Service: This intelligent software is specifically designed to support centralized medication management workflows within a CPSC, including medication ordering, receiving, picking, verifying, and restocking. The Central Pharmacy Manager for Central Med Automation Service features enhanced processing power that is meant to handle high medication transaction volumes while streamlining distribution workflows within the central fulfillment environment.

Inventory Optimization Service: A combination of software and expert services, this solution is intended to provide enterprise-wide inventory visibility and management of medication par levels, expiration dates, and usage patterns delivered through data-rich dashboards.

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