With an investment of R$2.5 million, the system’s objectives are to increase patient safety, trace medications within the Hospital, improve nursing procedures, increase productivity and optimize physical space.
The project is divided into storage conveyers for supplies and medications: Vertical and horizontal automation, including pneumatic email-operated dispensaries, a central connection and pharmacies with satellite hospitalization units. The service also provides a new concept in the provision of injectable medications and clean room standards that meet all qualifications in the area, resulting in greater safety in care.
“This new model favors not just the logistics chain but also treatment. The nursing staff can spend more time caring for the patient as it has the most commonly used supplies and medications, tailored for each sector, available in hospitalization units and will receive injectable medications in dose units, i.e. ready to be administered,” said the Samaratino Supply Manager Ana Paula Gomes de Melo.
According to her the automation has also benefited IT professionals who can focus on their clinical activities, ceasing to perform operational duties and interacting directly with multidisciplinary teams and patients. “Today every patient receives drug treatment information in an interactive manner and pharmacists can use tablets next to the bed to send the necessary directions,” she concluded.
