In the oncology pharmacy, each admixture is tailored for the individual patient based on the physician’s orders, real-time lab results and input from the pharmacy team. 

The challenge is to prepare sterile, accurate chemotherapy doses for a specific patient, based on real-time information while the patient is waiting at the facility. Complicating the effort are the pressures of modern healthcare, including the high cost of the medications, the importance of timely, accurate information and the hazardous nature of compounds. This makes ma nual preparations complex and difficult.

Comprehensive technology must be part of the solution. Borrowing and building on proven technology from other industries, applying worldwide best practices for safe compounding and combining a system-based emphasis on the importance of measures is the winning formula.

The automated compounding process is an integral part of a patient-centered system where coordinating materials, data and activities works in synergy with the objective of maximum efficiency and risk reduction.

The technology becomes a tool to serve a higher purpose: to benefit the people involved, patients, family members and health care workers. APOTECAchemo delivers measureable, meaningful value across many dimensions including patient safety, operator safety, pharmacist efficiency, physician satisfaction, nursing confidence, inventory management, cost reduction, automated record keeping, and risk management.