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Safety (Patient and Operator), Efficiency, Regulatory Environment
You have a vision for excellence. Your Pharmacy is a critically important and well-respected part of your hospital. You are a leader in your field, and your pharmacy and your hospital are both continually striving for excellence. Your hospital has a strong reputation and is perceived by the community as a leader in patient care and safety. You and your colleagues embrace new ways to improve safety and service delivery, improve operating efficiency and to continue to demonstrate leadership and innovation.
But with limited resources, an aging population, increasing formulary complexity and multiple stakeholders, your environment is not getting simpler.
You have the skills, the experience and the training to effect real change in patient care. But you need to be sure that the Pharmacy is operating within your strict standards.
It makes sense to take advantage of tools that are available that can automate processes in your pharmacy - in an efficient and accurate way; tools that can improve patient care, increase pharmacy efficiency and effectiveness and provide you control and flexibility in a changing regulatory environment.
RIVA is destined to become the new standard in IV admixture compounding. RIVA provides real solutions to deal with these real issues.
1. Safety
"RIVA will enhance patient care thru improved safety and accuracy of IV Admixture compounding. It will reduce IV med errors."
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Pharmacists can focus on patient needs and physician support. This has a direct impact on the quality of the prescription and transcription activities at the hospital. |
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Automating the compounding has a positive impact on the accuracy of the final product. |
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RIVA takes automation of the pharmacy beyond solid dose, by automating the preparation of fluid-based IV medications. |
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Integration with current systems and with hospital operations minimizes errors. |
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An electronic audit trail ensures that record keeping is complete, consistent and accurate. |
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RIVA uses state of the art safety features and practices, like using new syringes for all fluid transfers, using a patent-pending UV light to sterilize vials and having multiple check points throughout the preparation to confirm accuracy. |
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RIVA addresses operator safety issues like exposure to chemo drugs, and other hazardous materials. |
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RIVA will reduce operator repetitive strain injuries by automating repetitive tasks. |
2. Efficiency and Effectiveness
"RIVA will save you money or allow you to redeploy resources."
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Seamless integration with no changes to current workflow, nursing practice or procurement. |
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By completing orders more quickly, Pharmacists can redeploy their teams for better staff utilization and can potentially reduce the number of pharmacy techs in the pharmacy. RIVA fills up to 800 patient specific or batch doses in an 8 hour shift. |
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Just in time production also reduces wastage, since less meds will be returned to the pharmacy because of expiration or changes in the patient needs. RIVA has the flexibility to allow pharmacies to adjust the balance of batch and just in time production to optimize efficiency and reduce waste. |
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Reduce the cost, scheduling inconvenience and impact on the pharmacy team's morale by reducing absences due to repetitive strain injuries. |
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Cost avoidance - avoid purchase of pre-filled IV bags and syringes, by filling them with RIVA. |
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Uses standard off the shelf syringes and bags, from multiple vendors, in many sizes and combinations. |
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Batch or Patient Specific or both, depends on needs. |
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Configuration to support pediatric, chemo and general hospital pharmacy needs. |
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By reducing the incidence of errors, RIVA has the potential to impact the hospital's insurance premiums over the long term, and to reduce any potential legal costs. |
3. Regulatory Environment
"RIVA will help you meet USP 797 and other regulatory requirements"
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USP 797, NIOSH, OSHA, and other regulations - RIVA is designed to work within the current regulations, and evolve with you as these regulations evolve. |
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RIVA addresses many of the regulations that control the environment that pharmacists and technicians operate in. |
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Provides a complete electronic dose preparation audit trail for hospital records. |
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