Trade Show Calendar
page 42
20 Unique
Products
& Services
Discover 20 products and
services that will help your
pharmacy improve patient care
or increase profitability.
17 Preceptors
Recognized
17 preceptors recognized by 11
colleges including Colorado, Arizona,
UNC, Charleston… page 24
Pharmacist Jobs
Pharmacy Job Opportunities… page 58
Summer 2012
Health System • Infusion
I M P R O V I N G
P A T I E N T C A R E
PHARMACY COST
C O N T A I N M E N T
CAM Pharmacy POS
Independent pharmacy retailers choose CAM’s POS System over
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CAM Pharmacy Point of Sale software automates the store
operations of the independent pharmacy. Through its integration with
many leading pharmacy dispensing systems, the CAM Point of Sale
software offers pharmacies a complete solution when automating a
store. We take full advantage of the technology needed to control
inventory and streamline retail and pharmacy processes, while
increasing your bottom line.
Our software gathers signatures for pseudoephedrine, RX signature
logs and the HIPAA Notice of Privacy Policy (NOPP) and integrates
this right into our POS system for easy reference, reporting, and
auditing. We offer a complete customer management program with
frequent buyer, gift card, email campaigns, and more. CAM helps to
make sure you keep your customers coming back to you!
CAM also offers System Performance Pro which helps lower your IT
costs, increase your total technology up time and reduce the amount
of time spent managing your IT assets.
Our software helps you:
• Easily manage POS functions
• Maintain inventory easily
• Automate purchase orders
• Upload wholesalers’ database
• Create frequent shopper and gift
card programs
• Integrate eCommerce
• Streamline credit card processing
• Automate printing of coupons
• Simplify rental contracts
• Manage Pseudoephedrine
• Capture electronic signatures for
HIPAA, RX log and deliveries
We have the resources to provide
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• Experienced Installation Team
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EvolutionPOS for
Hospital Pharmacies,
by RMS
Pharmacy’s role in reducing
hospital readmits: fulfilling more
discharge prescriptions is good
for everyone’s health.
Contents
Narcotic BoxPicker
Automated Storage
and Retrieval by
Swisslog
Narcotic BoxPicker is the
innovative medication storage
and retrieval solution providing
vault-like secure storage for ...
Chemotherapy
Planning Software
by Chemocato
ensures accuracy, efficiency,
cost containment and patient
safety by providing support
through therapy planning,
ordering, monitoring, preparing
and dispensing of chemotherapy.
Pharmacy
Dashboard by
Iatric Systems, Inc.
automatic notification of
unverified medication orders,
and online pharmacy staff
communication to complement
meDIteCh Pha, Bmv and
Pom modules.
> Secure narcotic storage
> Access limited to a single bin at a time
> Picking rate of 3 to 1 over carousels
> Available in refrigerated, non-refrigerated and dual-temperature
Contact Swisslog for
more information about
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Time for EvolutionPOS.
TM
Capture those scripts in-house, to benefit your
patients and the hospital.
Using EvolutionPOS, you can put full transaction
capability right in the hands of pharmacy employees.
With our mobile POS device, you can deliver discharge
prescriptions, OTCs and counseling directly to the
patient bedside, just before they depart.
Ensure uninterrupted patient compliance, which can help to keep readmission
rates low, while gaining the prescription revenue. EvolutionPOS smoothly and securely
accomplishes this by collecting payment, recording electronic signatures, and
documenting each transaction in real time.
Contact us to discuss the best fit for your needs.
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Discharge
prescriptions
walking out
the door?
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Custom Storage
Options from Helmer
Customizable storage allows
customers to create a unique
product specifically tailored to
individual needs. this flexibility
provides the opportunity to
organize a variety of products
within one storage unit,
maximizing available floor space.
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Lipoderm®
Transdermal Bases
by PCCA
Elegant, proven delivery of
“medications in a cream for your
patients.”
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MILT® 3.0 Label
Software by
Medi-Dose, Inc. /
EPS, Inc.
MILT 3.0 software will improve
patient safety and decrease
medication errors with barcoding
and formatting flexibility.
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Compact IV
Inspection Light
Box by Health
Care Logistics
Used to determine the
absence of particulates in
compounded sterile drug
products and provides a
means for pharmacists to
comply with USP <797>...
A SMART CHOICE FOR
USP <797> COMPLIANCE
Health Care Logistics
(800) 848-1633
www.GoHCL.com
COMPACT IV LIGHT BOX
Used to determine the absence of particulates in
compounded sterile drug products and provides a mean
for pharmacists to comply with USP 27, Section <797>
Pharmaceutical Compounding – Sterile Preparations.
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Remote Order Entry
Pharmacy Services
Rx RemoteSolutions
(RemoteSolutions)
RemoteSolutions provides safe,
efficient, office-based medication
order entry and verification
services...
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Preceptor
Recognitions
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patient care or improve a pharmacy’s financial
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Issue frequency: Summer & Winter
Circulation per Issue: 19,000+
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Issue frequency: Spring & fall
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Health System • Infusion
Summer 2012
Trade Show Calendar
page 42
20 Unique
Products
& Services
Discover 20 products and
services that will help your
pharmacy improve patient care
or increase profitability.
17 Preceptors
Recognized
17 preceptors recognized by 11
colleges including Colorado, Arizona,
UNC, Charleston… page 24
Pharmacist Jobs
Pharmacy Job Opportunities… page 58
Summer 2012
Health System • Infusion
I M P R O V I N G
P A T I E N T C A R E
PHARMACY COST
C O N T A I N M E N T
page 24-25
QUARTERLY ISSUES
Community • Specialty • LTC
Spring 2012
Tradeshow Calendar
page 42
20 Unique
Products
& Services
Discover 20 products and
services that will help your
pharmacy improve patient care
or increase profitability.
17 Preceptors
Recognized
17 preceptors recognized by 11
colleges including Colorado, Arizona,
UNC, Charleston… page 24
Pharmacist Jobs
Pharmacy Job opportunities… page 58
I M P R O V I N G
PATIENT CARE
& P H A R M A C Y
PROFITABILITY
Spring 2012
Community • Specialty • LTC
Health System • Infusion
Winter 2011
Tradeshow Calendar
page 42
20 Unique
Products
& Services
Discover 20 products and
services that will help your
pharmacy improve patient
care or contain costs..
17 Preceptors
Recognized
17 preceptors recognized by 11
colleges including Colorado, Arizona,
UNC, Charleston… page 24
Pharmacist Jobs
Pharmacy Job opportunities… page 58
Winter 2011 Issue
Health System • Infusion
I M P R O V I N G
P A T I E N T C A R E
PHARMACY COST
C O N T A I N M E N T
Community • Specialty • LTC
I M P R O V I N G
PATIENT CARE
& P H A R M A C Y
PROFITABILITY
Fall 2011 Issue
Community • Specialty • LTC
Tradeshow Calendar
page 42
20 Unique
Products
& Services
Discover 20 products and
services that will help your
pharmacy improve patient care
or increase profitability.
16 Preceptors
Recognized
16 preceptors recognized by 10
colleges including MCPHS, Kentucky,
UCONN, Kansas… page 24
Pharmacist Jobs
Pharmacy Job opportunities… page 60
Fall 2011
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personal insurance and risk management services throughout
49 states and the District of Columbia.
Committed to the pharmacy profession, Pharmacists Mutual
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Not licensed to sell all products in all states.
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Pharmacy Task
Management Made
Easy with RxTask©
by Pharmacy Ideas
Computing, LLC
Utilize electronic checklists and
web-based task management
software to improve pharmacy
quality assurance and team
communication.
Contents
One Container
Pharmaceutical
Waste Disposal
Program by
Clean Harbors
The Simplest and Most
Compliant Pharmaceutical
Waste Program Available
Ensuring compliance to waste segregation protocols can be difcult, both to train
staf and to enforce. Tis can put your hospital at risk for regulatory action.
Clinicians simply put both the non-hazardous and the RCRA hazardous pharmaceutical
waste in the same black container.* Clean Harbors, the largest hazardous waste incineration
company in North America, will pickup, transport, dispose of, and keep you in full
compliance. We own every step of the process and don’t broker your waste to someone
else, like your red container medical waste provider has to.
Simple, no worries, the highest
level of technology, and best of all –
full compliance.
For more information:
Call 888.304.7035
Email healthcareservices@cleanharbors.com
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* There are a few waste items that must be collected separately
due to DOT regulations. Please contact Clean Harbors for more info.
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The One-Container
Pharmaceutical Waste Solution
iPack® Rx Unit Dose
Packager by
Pearson Medical
Technologies, LLC
iPack® Rx by Pearson Medical
provides a safe and efficient
unit dose packaging solution
that increases pharmacy
efficiency and patient safety.
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Drug Shortage
Solutions by Cantrell
Drug Company
Saving you time, costly
alternatives, and potential
medication errors, Cantrell Drug
Company provides many of
the sterile drugs currently on
backorder or discontinued by
manufacturers.
Vertex® Wipers
by Texwipe
Vertex is the only wiper
made using a fully-
automated process, each
and every step. No people,
no hands, no added risk.
Cantrell Drug Company offers compounded solutions
to many of these drug shortages.
Please contact us for more information and to see if the product you need is available.
1-877-666-5222
www.cantrelldrug.com
Is Your Wiper A
Hand Me Down?
North America Office (800) 839-9473 | Europe/Middle East Office +31.88.1307.410 | Asia/Pacific Office +65 6468 9433 | www.texwipe.com
Scan the QR Code for more information
or contact us at one of the numbers below.
Buy Vertex
® Sterile Wipers.
Manufactured HandsFree™ for the lowest possible risk.
Cleanroom wipers look white but are they really clean?
Cleanroom wipers are made by hand, but people are the greatest source of
contamination. A standard wiper adds great risk through introduction of dirt,
particles and other unwanted intruders into your cleanroom.
Sterile Vertex, The Ultra-Clean Wiper.
Texwipe developed a patent-pending, fully-automated system to wash, cut and
pack wipers without human hands. The robotic technology guides each wiper
through its production and ensures consistency from wiper to wiper, bag to bag
and lot to lot.
Available for purchase online
at www.texwipe.com
Made in USA
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HCS Medication
Reconciliation
Allowing for integration
with any existing hospital
information system, HCS
Medication Reconciliation
reduces clinician workload
and increases patient safety
by streamlining the medication
management process.
Health Care Systems
MEDICATION RECONCILIATION
For more information, please visit:
www.hcsinc.net
Since 2005, Health Care Systems, Inc. (HCS) has
focused on improving patient safety by improving
medication reconciliation.
HCS Medication Reconciliation software automates
medication history retrieval and provides a solution
that meets and exceeds the Joint Commission’s
standard to maintain and communicate accurate
patient medication information. HCS simplifi es
complete and accurate medication reconciliation
across the continuum of care.
The solution includes the ability to:
• Obtain a patient’s Prior Medication History
including Medication Fill and Refi ll Information
and previous visit information
• Analyze Prior Medication History
• Provide Medication Transfer and Discharge
Reports electronically or through printed media
• Provide discharge instructions including patient
education monographs and prescriptions
(electronic, faxed, or printed)
• Communicate and link directly to existing
hospital clinical information systems
Made easy with RxTask©
PHARMACY TASK MANAGEMENT
PHARMACY TASK MANAGEMENT
E-mail sales@rxideas.com to request
a link for viewing our on-line
Video Demo
New
2012
Benefits of RxTask©
Schedule all routine daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual,
and annual tasks, including those required to be com-
pleted and documented for USP 797 compliance
Low cost, web-based software (Hospital IT resources
not necessary for implementation)
Receive optional email reminder alerts and compliance
warnings automatically
Define custom quality assurance checklists
Document all pharmacy compounding and batch pro-
cessing electronically
Print barcoded dose labels directly from the software to
a label printer
Schedule and view tasks by category and assignments
Easily monitor temperature compliance for medication
refrigerators and freezers
Schedule and track all pharmacy staff competencies elec-
tronically
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Pharmacy Work
Flow Manager by
Holon Solutions
Integrate resources across
your pharmacies to ensure
consistency and help
balance workloads.
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Trade Show
& Meeting
Calendar
page 38-41
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The Virtual Pharmacy Trade Show is pharmacy’s one-stop resource destination
to research and connect with leading providers of products and services
throughout every segment of pharmacy. Due to its accessibility, relevancy,
and focus, more than 250,000 annual visitors depend on the Virtual Pharmacy
Trade Show to conduct preliminary and advanced research on industry
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the disciplines of pharmacy, informatics, therapy, continuing education, and
general healthcare.
For information on advertising
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Connecting Healthcare Through Innovation
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Pharmacy Invoice
Recovery Audit
Solutions by Contract
Management
Strategies
CMS recovers overpayments
made by hospital clients to it’s
vendors by auditing and
identifying pricing errors for
hospital pharmacies.
Pharmacy Job
Opportunities
Pressure Infusion
Bag by Health Care
Logistics
Simple, reliable and easy to use
– Pressurizes or deflates easily
with just one hand.
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Contents
SEVA Direct Basic
by IntraVena
SEVA Direct Basic offers an
inexpensive, safety hazardous
drug transfer convenience kit
designed to improve hazardous
drug safety and minimize IV line
connections and disconnections
for your patients.
IntraVena
Patents Pending
* Direct
Convenience Kits
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Single connection/disconnection per dose.
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Facilitates multidose transfer.
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SEVA Direct Basic is compatible with most drip-free luer
connecting devices.
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SEVA Direct with Texium reduces assembly labor.
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Low cost system.
Direct vial to IV container closed-system hazardous drug
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Simple fluid pathway selection using two-way stopcock.
transfer.
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Simplifies safety hazardous drug transfer.
Enclosed vented vial adapter inside a 4 mil medical
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May be hand-held, or hung inside a fume hood for hands-
grade, polyethylene SEVA bag.
free use.
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Retains vial, gas emissions and spills inside SEVA bag.
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Provides a barrier against hazardous drug contamination
on vial exterior.
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Large, accessible air reservoir inside SEVA bag.
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Tethered alcohol prep for in-bag swabbing of vial septum.
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Easy to see vial contents.
*IntraVena, the heart design, SEVA, SEVA DIRECT and the penguin design are trademarks or registered trademarks of IntraVena, LLC.
SmartSite and Texium Closed Male Luer are registered trademarks of CareFusion. Manufactured under license from CareFusion.
©2010 IntraVena, LLC. All rights reserved.
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1-801-510-8733 • www.intravenaonline.com
Questions? Contact IntraVena at:
Reference Number
Description
Case Quantity
0105-001
Vented SEVA Convenience Kit
100
0106-007
SEVA Direct Basic
100
0106-001
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SEVA Direct with Texium
100
* Direct
®
With Texium
* Direct
Basic
Features & Benefits
All the advantages of a vented vial spike inside a closed system.
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How Much Are Supplier and Distributor
Pricing Errors Costing Your Hospital?
The average pharmacy invoice error rate
is approximately .75 percent of the total
pharmaceutical purchases.
Even with all the proper safeguards in place
to ensure payments are made correctly, some
invoices are still paid at the incorrect price.
One group purchasing organization has stated
that 35 percent of all health care purchase
orders have errors that result in overpayments.
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INFUSION BAG
Reliable, simple to use – pressurizes or defates
easily with just one hand.
> Secure narcotic storage
> Access limited to a single bin at a time
> Picking rate of 3 to 1 over carousels
> Available in refrigerated, non-refrigerated and dual-temperature
Contact Swisslog for
more information about
how BoxPicker will
complete your medication
management cycle.
BoxPicker High-Density Drug Storage and Retrieval System
Swisslog Healthcare Solutions | www.swisslog.com | 800.764.0300 | healthcare@swisslog.com
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