Advance towards a zero-touch, zero-error central pharmacy
Performance-driven central pharmacy automation systems that improve safety, workflow, and inventory optimization.
Central pharmacy is the hub of care that patients and providers depend on. Roadblocks that surface there can influence all other areas of a healthcare system.
A manual and disjointed pharmacy inventory management system gets in the way of workflow efficiency—and safety. Not knowing the complete picture of medication inventory creates low accountability and a higher chance of errors, waste, and uncontrolled costs.
Transform your pharmacy to focus on clinically meaningful work
It starts with Omnicell pharmacy automation. Our robotic solutions automate everything such as medication dispensing, sorting, packaging, and retrieval. This technology unites with an embedded layer of intelligence to deliver crucial, real-time pharmacy optimization and insights. Together, these tools and technology will free up clinicians for more patient-focused activities while transforming your central pharmacy into the smart, efficient, and accurate hub of care you need it to be.
Reallocate clinician time to patient care
Increase inventory visibility and control to strengthen pharmacy management
Increase security of controlled substances
Reduce errors to help improve patient outcomes
Simplify workflows to increase efficiency and reduce costs
Gain access to inventory optimization and insights
A revolution in central pharmacy medication automation
Omnicell’s Central Pharmacy Dispensing Service is the cornerstone of the journey to a fully autonomous central pharmacy. It introduces groundbreaking pharmacy automation technology—the Omnicell XR2 system—that helps eliminate errors during medication dispensing and improve inventory control. With fewer touch points needed, the high-speed XR2 automated pharmacy dispensing system frees up pharmacy staff for more clinically focused initiatives.
The XR2 supports both cartless and cartfill distribution strategies through unit dose and multidose dispensing capabilities. Complemented by Omnicell carousels and packagers, which can store medications and produce unit doses for XR2, this advanced pharmacy automation system helps you achieve a complete, seamless, uninterrupted refill process in your central pharmacy.
Eliminate potential for human error through 100% barcode scanning, and reduce handling of medications by technicians and pharmacists with one-touch design.
The system scales and configures to central pharmacies of all sizes.
Enable more accurate inventory management and minimize disruptions.
Dispenses expiring medications first to reduce waste and stores 200%–300% more doses compared to conventional pharmacy robots of similar size.
Why choose pharmacy technology as a service?
Watch this video for an overview of Omnicell’s full-service, subscription-based model that enables a clear, quick path to improved outcomes with no capital investment.
The Central Pharmacy Dispensing Service is a turnkey medication automation solution supported by expert services and software that optimize your entire medication management process.
Streamlined, automated pharmacy storage and retrieval
Reducing the amount of time pharmacists and technicians have to spend picking and stocking medications is a key aim of our central pharmacy automation storage and retrieval systems.
Omnicell’s pharmacy carousel and medication packager—including our medication packaging service—help streamline the medication ordering process while assuring patient safety, staff efficiency and improved inventory control.
Reducing the amount of time pharmacists and technicians have to spend picking and stocking medications is a key aim of our central pharmacy automation storage and retrieval systems.
Omnicell’s pharmacy carousel and medication packager—including our medication packaging service—help streamline the medication ordering process while assuring patient safety, staff efficiency and improved inventory control.
Pharmacy automation software for better visibility and control
Regardless of size, every hospital pharmacy needs insight into their medication inventory and usage. Omnicell’s central pharmacy inventory software solutions help automate the ordering, receiving, stocking, picking, and verification processes. Whether you’re from a single hospital or multihospital IDN, you’ll have intelligent tools to run a leaner inventory without compromising patient care. Our Central Pharmacy Manager can be used on its own to improve operations, and it also integrates with automated carousel and packager technology, providing a comprehensive pharmacy automation software solution.
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Better control over controlled substances
Drug diversion is among the most difficult challenges that hospitals face today. Omnicell’s controlled substance management system for central pharmacy helps hospitals extend accountability from the time controlled substances are received, to when they are dispensed to patients, and returned back to the pharmacy. This automation gives you greater peace of mind about the security of controlled substances in your facility.
Discover how you can close gaps and better track controlled substances between the pharmacy and patient care units.
Explore Controlled Substance Manager
Address the challenges of managing controlled substance inventory and complying with regulatory standards while increasing efficiency.
Protect patient safety and reduce hospital liability by providing full accountability of drug movement from wholesalers, to the pharmacy and patient care areas, and back to the pharmacy.
Omnicell robotic dispensing systems for original pack medications help retail and hospital pharmacies streamline the medication ordering process while assuring patient safety, workflow efficiency, and improved inventory control. These modular and customizable systems also help address pressures to reduce costs.
Omnicell robotic dispensing systems for original pack medications help retail and hospital pharmacies streamline the medication ordering process while assuring patient safety, workflow efficiency, and improved inventory control. These modular and customizable systems also help address pressures to reduce costs.
Explore our robotic medication pack dispensing products (sold internationally).
- Medimat Robotic Dispensing System
- Robomat Robotic Dispensing System
- Fill-in-Box Automated Filling System
- Speedbox Channel Filling System
Central Pharmacy Dispensing customer stories
Explore how Omnicell customers drive more impact and move closer to a more fully autonomous pharmacy with our Point of Care solutions.
Ohio Valley Hospital, a 124-bed independent community hospital outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, smoothly transitions to new controlled substance and inventory automation technology that increases security, visibility and frees up time for pharmacists.
Stretching from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the bedroom communities of the Washington, DC beltway, Betsy Early’s responsibilities are as diverse as the patient mix she and her teams serve.
