The next 14th and 15th June APOTECACommunity will take place at Loccioni humancare facilities. A wide range of topics will be put forward and discussed mainly on the base of the information gathered during the itinerant Community.

The meetings  held between January and April have been very useful, as proved by the adhesions obtained:
- 134  persons at meetings
of which:
- 98 clinicians from pharmacy service
- 30 clinicians from oncology and hematology department

Every clinician, met by Loccioni humancare team, gave precious input with suggestions and feedbacks about APOTECA software, disposables to use the System and communication to the patient. Loccioni humancare collected a considerable amount of general information about all the activities related to the daily use of APOTECAchemo as the clean up procedure.

Humancare team is already working on the information and elaborating all data in order to offer solid topics and ideas to develop together with the Community during the two days of June to at Loccioni facilities.

APOTECACommunity ON THE ROAD has been a worthy occasion for Loccioni team to verify the effectiveness of  those updates and developments carried out  on the base of the suggestions made  during   last June Community.
This itinerant Community has been helpful to consolidate the mutual esteem between Loccioni team and its partners, also showing  the sharing of  same targets, passion and interest.

For sure at next June Community the conversation group will be more close, motivated and coperative. Good outcome will be reached!

APOTECACommunity ON THE ROAD ended with the last step at IRST of Meldola on 13th April.

A very interesting meeting where numerous clinicians from the hospital pharmacy and oncologic department have been involved.
Dr. Carla Masini, responsible for APOTECAchemo, managed everything in order to obtain the participation of Cristina Cuni, referent of laboratory technicians, a considerable number of pharmacy staff and some representatives of the oncologic department .

The meeting has  been the right occasion to share the needs and problems of each professional figure involved in the oncologic patient therapy workflow.

Useful ideas for new solutions development  have been highlighted. The presence of IRST press attachés (in the persons of Valentina Ravaioli and Francesco Mazza) has been really appreciated. The aim is always to share the mutual knowhow in order to give value to their own activities.

Last 13th March, after the meeting at IEO of Milan, APOTECACommunity stopped at Bolognini Hospital of Seriate . Dr Angelo Barcella, director of the pharmacy, and Dr. Maria Teresa Benzoni welcomed Loccioni humancare team.

It has been an interesting meeting that gathered the leading professional people dealing with APOTECAchemo such as Dr. Davide Zenoni internal manager of APOTECA project and all the nurses.

All of them suggested a lot of topics and a big amount of development and implementation proposals have come out. Loccioni humancare team collected their helpful tips and is still working on them. A month later, some interesting solutions have already been developed.

Also in this step, APOTECACommunity acquired a considerable amount of information drugs validation, cleaning tools, pharmacy-oncologic department software integration and patient communication material improvement that will be re-organized and re-elaborated in the next months.

Last 12th March APOTECACommunity ON THE ROAD reached IEO of Milan.

Some activities in the laboratory, as the new drugs entry in the APOTECA system, have been carried out with Dr. Martina Milani, after which the Community met up at the end of the pharmacy meeting taking place on mondays.

The large and heterogeneous group also involved the director Dr. Emanuela Omodeo Salè, who contributed to the good outcome of the meeting. Each professional figure working in the pharmacy exposed his own point of view making people aware of their own needs.

Good suggestions on patient communication have been collected to realize another wider and complex project whose target is a better service and communication with the patient.

The 7th March, before leaving Rome, APOTECACommunity met pharmacy clinicians of Umberto I.
At the end of their working day referents of hospital pharmacy and of Loccioni humancare got together in the laboratory to do the point of situation about the updating installed and about the requests and needs of the contest.

The 6th March APOTECACommunity ON THE ROAD stopped off at San Camillo-Forlanini hospital. Loccioni humancare found a really competent Community with a lot of questions to ask.

With the new pharmacy organization Dr. Raffaela La Russa, responsible for APOTECA project, has announced the intention to automate at least the 80% of prescriptions arriving at the pharmacy.
It will be a reachable target thanks the good purposes of team who is working with APOTECA.

The last 5th March APOTECACommunity ON THE ROAD visited the pharmacy of ASL 3 Umbria of Foligno.

Dr. Maria Antonietta Calzola, responsible for APOTECA project, welcomed Loccioni humancare group with her usual and typical enthusiasm.
In a cosy contest the Community talked to collect feedbacks about installed updates in order to value the result of the activity carried out by R&D team during the last months and to gather suggestions for further implementation.

The meeting was a perfect occasion to re-share the common targets, Dr. Calzola highlighted her will to raise the automatic chemotherapy compound  to 90% of prescripted therapy.

A goal easily achievable considering the re-organization of the laboratory activity only began some months ago.

From Genoa to Livorno. The 23rd February APOTECACommunity reached Livorno to visit the local hospital.

After going into the pharmacy and confronting with the nurses working in front of APOTECAchemo while they were compounding the therapy, the Community joined up with talking about: upgrades of the System, integrated and safe therapy workflow of oncology patient, communication to the patient, new cleaning tool and new administration disposables.

Pharmacy and oncology department clinicians joined the meeting thancks to Dr. Marcello Micheli responsible for APOTECA project. Clinicians manifested their curiosity and doubts about computerization and software integration between departments and pharmacy.

Even the communication to the patient drew a great attention of the people seating in the room giving excellent inputs especially from the point of view of the patient.
All the meetings so far organized have allowed Loccioni humancare to collect a lot of information that will be revised and exposed at the next Community appointment. It will take place on 14th and 15th June at our facilities.

The 22nd February the Community arrived in Genoa at IST (National Institute for the Research about Cancer). Dr. Maria Attilia Grassi, pharmacy director, and Dr. Sabrina Beltramini, responsible for APOTECA project, received the Loccioni humancare referents with a warming welcome .
After updating about the last activities done and discussing with the whole laboratory team, Loccioni referents introduced the integrated and safe care workflow of the oncology patient, the upgrades of APOTECAchemo, the new cleaning tool and the new administration disposables to the referents of oncology and pneumology departments.
A lot of significant suggestions, about the communication to the patient too, have been collected from every person there.

APOTECACommunity met special people, very attentive to quality service, efficiency, organization and safety. All of these definitions make an hospital an excellence.

The 20th February the red coach of APOTECACommunity got on the right track to reach the ASL 1 L’Aquila.

The clinicians are very motivated to work in a quality and efficient system. In fact, 19 clinicians assisted to the meeting. As a sign of people collaboration where every person is focused to the same target: to give a service of quality to the patient. A lot of suggestions and questions have come out in order to improve the onco-haematology workflow of therapy.

At L’Aquila hospital there are all necessary conditions for the optimization of resource and activity workflows.