Pyxis ES Medication Cabinets Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Requirements: The automated cabinets will communicate with existing Pyxis ES systems for the security of medications and comprehensive dispensing including: CII Safe, Med Stations for point of care dispensing, Anesthesia Stations, Secure cabinets for storage of medication and supplies, and all servers, ancillary equipment, and software to provide a comprehensive system of medication accountability. Med Stations will have a touch screen, keyboard, and touchpad for navigation. Med Stations will have multiple configurable lidded pocket sizes to include larger medications and Intravenous bags. Med Stations will be capable of custom configuration of internal drug cubbies without vendor support. Flexibility to reconfigure secure storage spaces to accommodate changing medications requirements within several minutes at no additional cost. Med Stations will be able to securely dispense refrigerated or non-refrigerated medications while keeping inventory of items in refrigeration. Med Stations will alert user for quantities removed greater or less than ordered. Med Stations will have secure dispensing of controlled substances. Witness verification of inventory, waste, or discrepancies using unique individual access steps. Med Stations will have security and levels of access for individual users. Shall allow for management of users and enable termination or initiation of users from a web-based status. Users will have multiple levels of access. Med Stations will have ability to allow reallocation between stations with complete drug accountability tracking. End users will have ability to request a medication not in the point of contact machine via web-based system. End users will have ability to document waste after removal of patient specific medications. Waste may be documented in any point of contact machine. Have a bio ID technology for fingerprint scanning for security. Med Stations will configure with pharmacy systems using the same server to transfer admissions, transfers, discharges, and orders in real time. Med Stations will have inventory reports to optimize station inventory. Med Stations will interface with other components and VISTA. The software will be able to communicate outbound and inbound messages with VISTA. Med Stations will have the ability to print to network servers. Med Stations will have ability to reconcile discrepancies at the point of contact machine. Inventory reconciliation between Med Stations and product dispensed from Pharmacy Bar Code verification of doses leaving pharmacy. Real time information exchange with VISTA or other hospital information systems. Med Stations will be able to dispense multiple medications in a queue from the same drawer at the same time. Med Stations will be able to print drug information on network printers. Med Stations will have override and non-override status. Med Aux (tower and drawer) units will connect to the primary Med Station and function in all the same ways outlined for Med Stations. System shall be able to run reports to trace medications, individuals, or access. System shall be able to retain all events to a data storage system. System will include inventory management and suggested orders for ADMs. System will have a drug formulary that can link drug names (brand, and generic names) and dose forms (liquids). System shall support IPsec encryption. System will run in a virtual environment. System shall have a web-based application interface. System will allow for concurrent users at the same time. System will allow SQL server and clustering Refrigerators will have ability to lock medications inside the fridge. Refrigerators will have interface with Med Stations to track removals and inventory. Medications kept locked in refrigerator will have inventory kept in Med Station end user interface. Each component will have an auto log off feature for security.