Medication Tracking Solutions

Most health systems committed to 100% patient safety are embracing technologies such as barcode medication administration. However, to make these programs effective in delivering promised improvements in patient safety, a hospital needs to have trackable medications and the means to monitor them accurately throughout the entire pharmacy workflow — all the way to the point of bedside administration.

Our TrakRx^™ portfolio of packaging and barcoding solutions work together to reduce medication errors and provide traceability in the delivery and administration of medications throughout your health system. TrakRx^™ includes the most extensive formulary of barcode-enabled unit dose medications in the industry.

Process and Workflow Assessment

We start by evaluating your current medication inventory management and distribution processes to assess your adaptability to barcode-enabled point-of-care administration. We’ll help ensure that pharmacy and nursing workflow is optimized to support the barcode medication administration processes and systems. This will improve documentation accuracy by tying inventory management to actual patient administration information versus dispensing data.

Formulary Updating

We’ll map your existing formulary and determine gaps where product barcodes are missing to determine the best strategy for achieving as close as possible to 100% barcoded medications. We’ll complete a review of the applicable federal and state regulatory requirements regarding packaging and barcoding, and ensure compliance. Lastly, we’ll assess the economic impact of the formulary changes required to maximize the percentage of pre unit-dosed and barcoded medications entering your system.

Integrating Appropriate Technologies

Based on our evaluation, we offer a complete line-up of automation technologies needed to help ensure the most efficient and effective medication management and delivery. This includes inventory management systems, unit-dose packaging and barcode labeling machines for the pharmacy, along with medication cabinetry and dispensing units for the various care areas.

Barcoded Pharmaceutical Distribution

AmerisourceBergen has the largest formulary of barcode-enabled unit-dose medications in the industry—and it continues to grow on a regular basis. For most hospitals, in fact, we can provide more than 70% of your formulary in unit-dose and barcoded form. Having the industry’s premier pharmaceutical distributor as your source for these medications ensures consistent high quality, a predictable supply, reliable delivery, simplified paperwork, and competitive pricing.