2008 Summer Meeting
Robotic IV Automation: Human Intelligence Combined with Robotic Accuracy
Track: Informatics Series
Program Code:110-L04
Date: 9 June 2008
Time: Monday, June 9, 2008
Location:613 - Level 6MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Dr. Brent Fox, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Care Systems
| Dr. Fox is originally from Daphne, Alabama, a bay community outside of Mobile, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy in Auburn, Alabama. He worked in the health-system software development industry as a pharmacy specialist. Dr. Fox then returned to Auburn University's Department of Pharmacy Care Systems where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree, serving as a Fellow with the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.
Dr. Fox spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Pharmacy Informatics at Shenandoah University's Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. He subsequently returned to the Harrison School of Pharmacy where he serves as the Assistant to the Dean for Educational Technology. In this role, Dr. Fox focuses on evaluation, selection, implementation, training, and monitoring of information technologies to support the School's education, research, and outreach missions. Current initiatives within the School include an electronic medical record to be used longitudinally throughout the curriculum, an electronic documentation system, and implementation of technology, facilities, and personnel for a satellite campus in Mobile. Other responsibilities include building an integrated electronic portfolio for students and faculty, integration of pharmaceutical technology into the professional curriculum, and development of web-based programs to capture educational assessment data.
Dr. Fox's teaching, research, and outreach activities are focused on the optimal use of healthcare information technology to improve patient outcomes. He has delivered more than 100 presentations, posters, and papers on the integration of information technology into healthcare systems. Dr. Fox is also very active in several national professional associations. He is coauthor of a skills based book on healthcare informatics, published by the American Pharmacists Association in 2005.
Brent is married to the former M. Georgia Wavra. They enjoy exercising, attending Auburn sporting events, and entertaining friends and family in their spare time. |
MODERATOR:
Dr. Brent Fox, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Care Systems
| Dr. Fox is originally from Daphne, Alabama, a bay community outside of Mobile, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy in Auburn, Alabama. He worked in the health-system software development industry as a pharmacy specialist. Dr. Fox then returned to Auburn University's Department of Pharmacy Care Systems where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree, serving as a Fellow with the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.
Dr. Fox spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Pharmacy Informatics at Shenandoah University's Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. He subsequently returned to the Harrison School of Pharmacy where he serves as the Assistant to the Dean for Educational Technology. In this role, Dr. Fox focuses on evaluation, selection, implementation, training, and monitoring of information technologies to support the School's education, research, and outreach missions. Current initiatives within the School include an electronic medical record to be used longitudinally throughout the curriculum, an electronic documentation system, and implementation of technology, facilities, and personnel for a satellite campus in Mobile. Other responsibilities include building an integrated electronic portfolio for students and faculty, integration of pharmaceutical technology into the professional curriculum, and development of web-based programs to capture educational assessment data.
Dr. Fox's teaching, research, and outreach activities are focused on the optimal use of healthcare information technology to improve patient outcomes. He has delivered more than 100 presentations, posters, and papers on the integration of information technology into healthcare systems. Dr. Fox is also very active in several national professional associations. He is coauthor of a skills based book on healthcare informatics, published by the American Pharmacists Association in 2005.
Brent is married to the former M. Georgia Wavra. They enjoy exercising, attending Auburn sporting events, and entertaining friends and family in their spare time. |
PRESENTER(S):
| Mr Michael Culligan is a 1993 Graduate of the University of Connecticut. He has worked as a clinical pharmacist in Connecticut, Indiana, and Northern Virginia. His current position is Assistant Director Clinical Operations at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Ct. Mike was actively involved at Saint Francis in the full implementation of Computerized order entry, Emar, Bedside Barcoding, Smart Pump technology, Automated dispensing, handling of pharmacy waste and IV automation. Mike has fully implemented IV automation at Saint Francis in 2003 has currently dispensed approximately 3 million products. |
Dr. Brent Fox, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Care Systems
| Dr. Fox is originally from Daphne, Alabama, a bay community outside of Mobile, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy in Auburn, Alabama. He worked in the health-system software development industry as a pharmacy specialist. Dr. Fox then returned to Auburn University's Department of Pharmacy Care Systems where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree, serving as a Fellow with the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.
Dr. Fox spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Pharmacy Informatics at Shenandoah University's Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. He subsequently returned to the Harrison School of Pharmacy where he serves as the Assistant to the Dean for Educational Technology. In this role, Dr. Fox focuses on evaluation, selection, implementation, training, and monitoring of information technologies to support the School's education, research, and outreach missions. Current initiatives within the School include an electronic medical record to be used longitudinally throughout the curriculum, an electronic documentation system, and implementation of technology, facilities, and personnel for a satellite campus in Mobile. Other responsibilities include building an integrated electronic portfolio for students and faculty, integration of pharmaceutical technology into the professional curriculum, and development of web-based programs to capture educational assessment data.
Dr. Fox's teaching, research, and outreach activities are focused on the optimal use of healthcare information technology to improve patient outcomes. He has delivered more than 100 presentations, posters, and papers on the integration of information technology into healthcare systems. Dr. Fox is also very active in several national professional associations. He is coauthor of a skills based book on healthcare informatics, published by the American Pharmacists Association in 2005.
Brent is married to the former M. Georgia Wavra. They enjoy exercising, attending Auburn sporting events, and entertaining friends and family in their spare time. |
| Luci A. Power has been with the Department of Pharmaceutical Services at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco for over 25 years serving in various capacities, including Senior Pharmacist and Manager of the Parenteral Support Services and Manager of the IV Additive Services where she was responsible for the in-patient chemotherapy and other hazardous drug compounding. She is now an independent lecturer and consultant on pharmacy IV and hazardous drug systems with Power Enterprises in San Francisco, CA.
Luci is a primary author of both the 1985 and 1990 ASHP Technical Assistance Bulletins on Handling Cytotoxic and Hazardous Drugs; lead author of the 2006 ASHP Guidelines on Handling Hazardous Drugs and first author of the ASHP Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Video Training Program. Luci is an original member of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) working group on hazardous drugs and an author of the 2004 NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastics and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings.
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Description:
The next innovative technology to facilitate closing the med-use process loop, and improve patient and employee safety is the automation of the IV compounding practice. In the past decade, hospital systems have been transforming into a virtual electronic system with CPOE, e-MAR, BCMA, enhanced with high-technology equipment to improve patient safety and increase pharmacy efficiencies with oral dosage forms. The developments of automated intravenous compounding technology have been incomplete over this time period due to the complexity of the compounding environment. New technologies have emerged in the IV compounding arena that will improve patient and employees safety and increase pharmacy efficiencies. This session will cover the various components utilized, regulatory considerations, and their role in medication safety.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the current state of IV automation and how it facilitates closing the med-use process loop, the types of medication compounded, and final products dispensed.
- Describe the safety features of robotic IV automation.
- Identify the benefits and challenges of the various robotic IV automated products discussed.
- Explain the regulatory environment requirements with robotic IV automation.
- Compare and contrast the medication safety features of robotic IV automation versus a manual IV compounding process.
