Challenge
Southern Pharmacy was using a manual card-based system that was labor intensive, expensive and had reached capacity. The pharmacy wanted to offer patients an easy-to-use product to replace blister cards and vials, and make their life easier on a day-to-day basis. In order to fulfill current demand for adherence packaging and allow the business to expand, Southern Pharmacy decided to look at other automation to help package medications for patients.
Southern Pharmacy needed to operate its strip packaging system in a very small space—only 400 sq. ft.—so Lomax began looking for a machine that would accommodate space limitations and improve efficiency.
Southern Pharmacy also wanted an adherence system that would offer options for non-NDC-specific cartridges and built-in visual inspection. With the improvement in efficiency, Lomax intended to produce adherence packaging in one location and deliver packaging to his other five pharmacies.
Solution
Southern Pharmacy identified the RapidPakRxTM as its automation of choice, due to the system’s compact size, price point, built-in vision inspection and use of non-NDC-specific cartridges.
Southern Pharmacy uses the Parata Max in combination with the RapidPakRx. The RapidPakRx’s visual inspection software gives pharmacists the ability to verify pouches quickly. The non-specific cartridges enable technicians to change NDCs easily, and the system’s small footprint has been a great fit for the pharmacy.
Lomax says, “With the RapidPakRx, we were able to get a small system to fit in our retail space that had every-thing we needed built in one unit.”
The top three impacts to Southern Pharmacy were improving patient adherence, increasing Star ratings and giving patients an easier option to help Lomax manage medications.
Pharmacy Owner Testimonials
“The RapidPakRx is a great tool for our pharmacy. It’s helping us to increase our Star ratings and also gives patients a packaging system that will help drive their adherence and make them healthier. That’s our long-term goal.”
“Patients have told me that adherence packaging has been life-changing. In the past, they were never able to take their medication as prescribed. They’re now taking their meds on time and are 100% compliant on the new system. It’s affecting their health in a big way.”
“The RapidPakRx is a great fit for our location dueto its small size and also the non-specific NDCcartridges. That gives us flexibility to have multipleNDCs and not really be tied down to a specificcartridge to dispense the medication.”