New Technology for Medication Management

Omnicell is an automated medication dispensing machine. It securely stores medications for removal by the nurse and ensures that only the correct medication is being removed from the machine.  Benefits of the Omnicell include:

• PATIENT SAFETY
• Medication Security – biometric design (recognizes the nurses fingerprint for access)
• Maintains inventory management of medications
• Automated tracking of outdated and recalled medications
• Eliminates shift to shift counting of narcotics
• Eliminates a nurse maintaining and ordering floor stock
• Eliminates the need to have narcotic keys on nursing units – and the nurses searching for the keys when their patient needs pain medication
• Individual locking compartments allow only medication picked to be taken out of the machine
• Increases availability of medications on the units eliminating frequent calls to pharmacy
• Improves tracking of medications to guide pharmaceutical purchasing which decreases pharmacy inventory

Automated medication dispensing systems are not new technology.  The technology has proven to provide Patient Safety and improve the medication costs for facilities that utilize them. Wyoming County Community Health System is committed to providing patients with safe quality care and automated medication dispensing is another assurance to that commitment.