RIVA Product Life Cycle Champions
By Irene Wasilewski, Product Support Specialist RIVA, a fully automated IV compounding system, is used by hospital pharmacies to automatically and accurately prepare IV syringes and bags. RIVA came...
View ArticleDispelling Myths about I.V. Automation
By Irene Wasilewski, Product Support Specialist Most hospital pharmacies will likely say they would be interested in adding IV automation, but… “Automation is too expensive” “We follow the regulations...
View ArticleFastPak Elite in your hospital
By KJ Delaney, Application Consultant The hospital pharmacy can be a home to heightened stress levels, organized chaos, and a symphony of movement. There is rarely downtime to the workflow that is...
View ArticlePharmacy 4.0 – Applying Industry 4.0 Principles to Create the Smart Pharmacy
By Craig Boyce, Director of Professional Services Does your morning pharmacy management report include issues with errors and turn-around time, new budget cuts and regulatory standards, more supply...
View ArticleSafety and Capacity: A winning combination with Automated Dispensing Cabinets
By Craig Barton, Pharmacy Consultant With the demands for decreasing turn-around times for medication administration, pharmacies struggle to provide quick access to medications while safely storing and...
View ArticleKnowledge Transfer
By Nancy Ulrich, Training Specialist Did you know that the best way to learn something is to teach it? When you teach something and say the words out loud, you hear it and your brain connects the dots....
View ArticleRIVA User Group 2017
By Irene Wasilewski, Application Consultant ARxIUM recently held its annual RIVA User Group at the ARxIUM office in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Nineteen hospitals participated in the two-day sessions and...
View ArticleInnovative Pharmacy Solutions…from our customers
By KJ Delaney, Application Consultant As an Application Consultant, I get to travel across the United States and Canada. I get to visit all sorts of hospitals and pharmacy sites. I get to meet new...
View ArticleTop Ten Things to Consider When Changing Your Target Operating System Platform
By David Skowronski, Computer System Engineer The following top 10 list is important to consider when deciding to change the operating system of an existing production system or product platform....
View ArticleTimes are Changing – Using Automated Dispensing Cabinets in Alternate Care...
By Jodie Vogt, Product Sales Support Does this scenario sound familiar to you if you work in an alternate care setting such as long term care, rehabilitation or hospice? It is “Someone’s” job to check...
View ArticleThe Value of Teamwork
By Jay Yates, Manager of Implementation So, you’ve been asked to complete a large project with impossible time lines and failure is not an option. You can’t do it on your own and be successful. I’ve...
View ArticleAre pharmacy labels your workflow crutch?
By Beth Richter, Pharmacist Consultant For many years, pharmacy workflow and medication dispensing have been driven by paper: paper in the form of a label. Labels are used for everything and for good...
View ArticleMarrying Hardware and Software
By: David Pilkington, Software Developer DEARLY beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of Geeks, and in the face of these consumers, to join together this Hardware and this Software in...
View ArticleGoing Global – ARxIUM’s International Journey
By: Irene Wasilewski, Application Consultant ARxIUM’s Director of Distribution Sales, Randy Kehler, recently presented to a group of students at the University of Manitoba’s International Management’s...
View ArticlePouch Device Optimization
By KJ Delaney, Application Consultant Being the owner of an ARxIUM pouch packager does have its share of responsibility. You have made an investment into your business of taking care of your patients....
View ArticleUse It or Lose It
By: Alex Reinhardt, Application Consultant That adage has been around for a long time, and has been applied to many things. However, did you ever think it applied to your automation? Well, it does,...
View ArticleI am a machine
By: KJ Delaney, Application Consultant So starts another day. I think it’s Monday or maybe Tuesday; the days really seem to run together lately. My teammates should be here anytime. I don’t envy them....
View ArticleThe Great Digital Divide
By: Michael Grzesik, Infrastructure Security Specialist With the latest disclosure by Yahoo on December 14, 2016 that it lost the information for one BILLION e-mail accounts, I have finally decided...
View ArticleMeasuring Patient Harm in Canadian Hospitals
By: Irene Wasilewski, Application Consultant Despite health professionals’ focus on safety, a small proportion of patients experience some type of unintended harm as a result of the care they receive....
View ArticleWhy Coders Should Not Be Testers
By: David Pilkington, Software Developer I’ve been a software developer all my adult life and then some – back to the days when we were called “computer programmers.” In those 35 years I’ve learned a...
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