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BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect
Expanding medication inventory visibility and improving compliance through IT connectivity
BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect is a suite of solutions providing safe and efficient inventory management of automated and manual pharmacy stock across your facilities to guarantee the most accurate inventory visibility, compliance and control.
Do you want to have visibility of stock across multiple locations?
Controlled and efficient inventory management
The BD solution for safe, compliant, accurate and integrated inventory management is BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect.
It provides controlled and efficient inventory management, visibility and reporting in both automated and manual stock locations and will integrate to fill the existing gaps of today’s pharmacy information systems.
BD Pyxis™ Guided Pick (optional)
“Increased picking and storing efficiency – control and manage your drugs at your fingertips”
- Management of all types of drugs stored on manual shelves
- Real time operator guidance and workflow alerts
- Management of full and partial packs
BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect Core
Empower your drug management with 100% inventory visibility
Connected and scalable across locations
Actionable analytics enhanced order management
- Management of all types of drugs stored in BD Rowa™ Automation Systems
- Integration with your PIS for optimised inventory and order management
- Real-time pharmacy stock management
- Accurate reporting and actionable analytics
- Automated tote or ward box management
Pyxis™ FMD Verify (optional)
“The easy-to-install software solution supporting pharmacies with Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) compliance”
- Direct connectivity with your national medicines verification system (NMVS) and pharmacy information system (PIS)
- Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) - verification, decommissioning, recommissioning for all drugs
- Full traceability of drugs, users, actions related to FMD processes
BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect
Modular software to meet your needs.
BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect is a modular inventory and workflow management software solution comprised of BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect Core as fixed a component and BD Pyxis™ Guided Pick and BD Pyxis™ FMD Verify as optional software modules – selected according to your needs and solution concept.
The BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect modules combine to help to ensure that the right drug in the right quantity, for the right order is picked at the right time for the right patient every time.
Future-proof your medication management
SCAN
Safety, Compliance, Accuracy and iNtegration (SCAN)
To ensure true visibility of all inventory movements, all transactions are automatically logged and monitored within BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect. Real-time notifications and compliance alerts: BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect offers full inventory visibility and reporting while improving the accuracy of your pharmacy information system across all managed storage locations.
Your pharmacy team checks and inputs the order numbers for incoming medications and confirms that the right medications are received via BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect which automatically updates your pharmacy information system (PIS) with accurate data.
Due to direct connectivity with the national medicines verification system (NMVS) and your pharmacy information system (PIS), integrated BD Pyxis™ FMD Verify ensures that all medications are compliant during all inventory scans regardless of their stock location. This significantly reduces the burden of manual labor impact to ensure compliance.
Products that can be stored automatically within BD Rowa™ are verified directly and manually stored items are scanned and stored on shelves or fridges at their predefined location by using BD Pyxis™ Guided Pick. As all transactions are reported and your PIS is constantly updated with accurate and complete information about your inventory.
This automates manual processes with seamless, safe and efficient workflows and offers full medication visibility across different locations.
Medication orders are transmitted from your PIS into BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect which coordinates both manual and automated picking workflows. Meds stored in automated locations will be delivered by BD Rowa™ Vmax to the desired output. For meds stored in a manual location such as a shelf or fridge, the technician will collect the packs guided by BD Pyxis™ Guided Pick. All transactions, including FMD processes, are tracked by BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect which updates the PIS. Once fulfilled the order can be delivered directly to the patient or to the BD Pyxis™ MedStation ES system at the ward.
Any Medications or partial packs can be returned to BD Rowa™ Vmax or returned to manual shelves or other locations guided via BD Pyxis™ Guided Pick. All transactions are tracked by BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect which constantly updating the PIS.
With real-time notifications and compliance alerts, BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect offers full inventory visibility and reporting while improving the accuracy of your PIS across all managed storage locations. This improved accuracy throughout all your processes supports inventory optimisation and streamlines re-ordering.
Safety – Drug scanning for safer medication management to prevent errors and potential drug shortages
Compliance – Embedded capabilities to support your FMD compliance efforts
Accuracy – Completes information in your pharmacy information system to provide greater accuracy
iNtegration – Modular solution that scales with your organisation whole offering multi-user, multi-site access
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Receiving
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Integrated FMD
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Storage and control
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Picking meds
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Returning meds
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Visibility and reporting
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Simplicity
Proactively manage your day-to-day medication management workflows
Benefits
Efficiency – Control – Connectivity – Compliance
Safe, simple and smart across the care continuum
Pharmacists
Control all inventory at a glance
Automate manual processes with seamless and efficient workflows
Spend more time on patient care*
Gain confidence
IT professionals
Utilise current infrastructure
Secure data
Reduce IT footprint
Keep integration simple
Management
Improve resource management
Expand with your needs
Get an overview of your organisation’s medication stocks
Future-proof your investment with end-to-end medication management solutions from BD
Proactively manage your day-to-day medication management workflows
BD Vision
Connected medication management solutions
Optimise inventory for your pharmacy, improve nurse productivity and increase time for patient care
Learn more on connected medication management solutions
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Please note, not all products, services or features of products and services may be available in your local area. Please check with your local BD representative.
Notes
*BMC Health Service Research, Sep 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043635/
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