The University of Michigan's Department of Pharmacy page on the
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital site contains a hyperlink that reads: Read
more about our technology.
Be sure to click that link and read more about their tech!
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Was there some discussion about potential applications involving clinical
trials and studies?
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Get details on the new U-M C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital.
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cdex-inc.com
CDEX Announces Implementation and Acceptance of its ValiMed Patient Safety
Solution
ROCKVILLE, MD and ANN ARBOR, MI - CDEX Inc. (OTCBB: CEXI) announces
implementation and acceptance of its ValiMed Patient Safety Solution and
Regulatory Compliance Solutions by the University of Michigan Health System
following two months of testing. These ValiMed solutions are being utilized
in the University's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital pharmacy to validate the
compounding of high risk medications for pediatric patients' individual
doses as well as for batches of compounded injectable medications.
Issue: Medication Errors. According to the Institute of Medicine Report
entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, medication errors
occur even though healthcare systems work diligently to eliminate them. Any
process that utilizes humans is prone to errors. Ensuring that high risk
medications are correctly compounded presents continual challenges to the
pharmacy departments of busy institutions. Specific studies focused on
sterile compounding have observed medication compounding errors in the
dispensing process of pharmacies nationwide.
Solution: End Product Testing. The ValiMed solution offers pharmacies a
quick, cost effective, simple tool to further ensure that the medication
being dispensed is correctly compounded. ValiMed uses patent pending
technology to validate compounded doses of high risk medications prior to
dispensing them from the hospital pharmacy. The device performs tests in
about 30 seconds and provides an added level of safety in the dispensing
process when incorporated into a pharmacy's current system of checks for
compounded medications.
"We are very pleased with our results and we feel that ValiMed can play a
valuable role in improving the safety of the preparation of certain high
risk products," said Jim Stevenson, Director of Pharmacy at the University
of Michigan. "The technology was easily integrated into our current
dispensing process."
"The partnership with Jim and his staff at the University of Michigan's
Pharmacy Department has been invaluable as we have continued to improve the
capabilities of our proprietary technology," said Malcolm Philips, CEO of
CDEX. "The success at the University of Michigan shows the capability of
our team to expand the use of the ValiMed device beyond our Impaired
Clinician Solution and will be important as we continue to grow the
capabilities of the healthcare product line in the future."
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the
children's hospital of the University of Michigan Health System. The 240-bed
hospital provides care to more than 360,000 pediatric patients annually, and
is ranked as one of the nation's top children's hospitals by Child magazine.
For more information, visit www.med.umich.edu/mott and
www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2005/mottpharm.htm. |
