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From Specialty Pharmacy Continuum, November 15, 2024
Implementing IV workflow management system (IVWMS) technology is helpful for patient safety, but the planning can be challenging, one community hospital system discovered.
One good place to start is to allow ample time for preparation before going live, said Allie Torrence, PharmD, BCPS, an assistant director at Methodist Medical Center, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. “Regulations have changed for USP [General Chapter] <797>, and there’s a heightened focus on patient safety,” Dr. Torrence said. “We have drastically changed what we do in sterile compounding.”
To help meet the new requirements, which went live in November 2023, Covenant Health (the medical center’s parent organization) purchased an IVWMS system. The product features a camera and scale, and it allows for barcode scanning, volumetric and/or gravimetric accuracy. It also has an electronic system for compounding records and allows for a standard formulary and master formulation record (MFR).
Before going live, Dr. Torrence and colleagues assembled a team including a director or manager and the IV room supervisor from each acute care facility in their 10-hospital system, as well as IT pharmacists and technicians, to meet in person and discuss all MFRs they would need to create.
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