Apoteca
Technology and measurement skills represent the winning cards in healthcare and hospitals to address the complexities of treatment and the need to contain the budget in view of sustainability.
In the specific case of the hospital pharmacy, where each product prepared follows a process which sees the patient at the core of a human dialogue involving the clinician, the pharmacist and their staff, APOTECA becomes a must.
APOTECA is an automation system for hospitals, organizing and managing the flow of information, activities, materials and resources.
In this, materials are optimally managed and promptly respond to needs that arise from time to time, reducing wastes, integrating all information, lowering the consumption and accumulation of paper, where data are safer and more traceable and it is possible to eliminate the risk of operator and patient thus increasing productivity and the attention paid to ergonomics and perfomance.
Technology becomes the means for a higher purpose: the benefit to the person whether it be patient, pharmacist, specialist, operator.
APOTECA was born from a need felt in the oncology field, where the integration of materials, information and work has taken the utmost importance: the oncologist, the pharmacist and their staff become a team around the patient to ensure the highest quality, safety and efficiency in a constantly expanding health care area. The rising diffusion of cancer typologies and the introduction of new drugs make the system more complex. In any hospital the use of anticancer drugs customized to the individual patient, occurs in a specific location: - defining therapy - prescription - preparation - administration Within this activity, the manual preparation of cancer drugs is the most critical and delicate phase for: - customization for patients (error probabilities are multiplied) - highly toxic medications - high risk professional preparation and administration (due to prolonged exposure to carcinogens), with consequent difficulties in recruiting and motivating staff - high risk of transcription error (generating serious consequences on the patient). APOTECA fits perfectly into the entire cancer chain projected in a strategic path of total quality, high tech, high touch and low-risk. Automation is the answer to all these premises.
Automation disclosure
The automatic dosing of cytostatic drugs proposed by Loccioni humancare has been already working in Italy for some time by the biggest cancer treatment centers across the territory. 13 are the Systems distributed to: - AO Bolognini -Ospedale di Alzano Lombardo – Seriate The Systems produced by Loccioni humancare for cancer drug dosing have been installed with the cooperation of international partners, in over thirty units in various countries of the world: England, Austria, Czech Republic, USA, Turkey, Malaysia, Taiwan
- AO San Camillo-Forlanini – Rome
- AO San Carlo – Potenza
- AOU Ospedali Riuniti – Ancona
- Asl 3 Umbria – Ospedale San Giovanni Battista – Foligno
- Ausl 5 Messina – Ospedale San Vincenzo – Taormina
- Azienda Policlinico Umberto I – Rome
- IEO Istituto Europeo di Oncologia – Milan
- I.F.O. – Rome
- IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro – Genoa
- Usl 6 Toscana - Ospedale di Livorno
