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The Problem

During my pharmacy internship at Kindred Hospital, I noticed how much time was spent on manual pen-and-paper documentation and disjointed tracking across multiple daily pharmacy workflows: handwriting lot numbers and expiration dates into compounding logbooks, re-verifying full procedural trays when only one vial was consumed, checking emergency crash carts with paper checklists, hunting down infrequently used medications across high-density shelves and carousels, and reconstructing lot histories from physical binders whenever a recall or QA question arose. Inventory and batch counts frequently drifted from physical reality, and date transcription errors created friction during Joint Commission audit preps.

Core Modules & Capabilities

1. Crash Carts & Procedural Trays

Purpose-built for Anesthesia Trays, Intubation Kits, and Emergency Crash Carts.

  • AI Checklist Ingestion: Upload a phone photo or PDF of any physical hospital form to instantly extract drugs, par levels, and initial expiration dates.
  • Delta-Only Replenishment: Technicians only enter QTY USED and replacement dates for consumed medications — eliminating unnecessary re-checks of valid stock.
  • Automatic Earliest Expiry Tracking: Continuously computes and surfaces the "First Drug to Expire" with visual countdown badges across the entire fleet.
  • 1:1 Single-Page Hospital Printouts: Dynamically scales typography and row padding so up to 40+ medications print onto a single physical sheet matching hospital standards.
  • Fleet Search & List/Grid Views: Real-time multi-attribute search (by cart name, revision, or contained medication) with toggleable high-density table and card grid views.
  • 1-Click Duplication: Clone existing cart templates with smart sequential numbering (e.g. Tray 1 → Tray 2) and full transfer of items, par levels, and backorders.

2. Sterile IV Compounding & Patient IV

Replaces paper compounding binders with structured, verifiable digital batch records.

  • Automated BUD Calculations: Computes beyond-use dates automatically according to USP compounding standards.
  • American Date Normalization: Robust MFR EXP date parsing (MM/YY, MM/DD/YYYY) auto-resolves to calendar month-ends with leap-year precision.
  • Solution Bag Lot Management: Pre-populates diluents (NS, D5W, D5NS, LR) and generates clean label stickers formatted for sticker printers.
  • Pharmacist Verification: Required field enforcement and signature blocks prior to session finalization.

3. Minibag Inventory & Pyxis Management

Maintains live stock synchronization between central pharmacy and automated dispensing units.

  • FEFO Stock Rotation: Automatically selects and uses First-Expired, First-Out batch stock.
  • Instant Recall / Lot Search: Search any manufacturer lot number across historical records in seconds during safety investigations.
  • Pyxis Restock Logs: Documents restocked pockets, quantities, and verification timestamps.

4. Medication Search & Visual Shelf Locator

Empowers pharmacy staff, interns, and floating technicians to instantly find any medication across carousels, main shelves, and refrigerators.

  • Instant Visual Search: Type any drug name or strength to instantly display high-resolution shelf images with pinpoint pin markers indicating the exact shelf and bin.
  • Interactive Shelf Mapping: Upload photo maps of pharmacy shelves/refrigerators and click to drop coordinate pins with drug labels and strengths.
  • Zoom & Auto-Center Navigation: Multi-level zoom (1x to 3x) and smooth auto-centering on search results for immediate visual confirmation.
  • Faster Retrieval & Onboarding: Eliminates physical hunting during rush hours or urgent code responses and dramatically accelerates onboarding.

5. Pharmacy Staff Scheduling

Streamlines technician and pharmacist shift planning with coverage validation.

  • Shift Patterns & Rotations: Manages day, evening, and weekend rotations with automated rule checks.
  • Shareable Mobile Access: Generates secure private tokens for technicians to view live rosters on mobile devices.

Why This Matters Operationally

  • Audit readinessJoint Commission and State Board inspection records available in 1-click with full audit trails
  • Zero binder searchesFDA recall investigations and QA lot lookups complete in seconds instead of digging through binders
  • Instant drug retrievalvisual shelf locator with pinpoint map markers eliminates hunting for rarely used drugs across shelves and carousels
  • Faster tray turnaroundsreplenish only consumed items without rescanning untouched inventory
  • Fewer medication errorseliminates handwriting ambiguity and re-transcribing numbers across multiple forms
  • Waste reductionproactive earliest-expiry alerts prevent expired medications from sitting undetected in trays and carts

Common Questions

Is this a finished product?

It is a fully functional operational prototype built and tested against real clinical hospital workflows, currently being iterated based on direct pharmacist and technician feedback.

What patient data does it store?

None that is patient-identifiable in persistent storage. It tracks drug, lot, quantity, expiration, and procedural session data tied to hospital tray and Rx identifiers.

How does it fit existing hospital workflows?

It runs standalone in any modern web browser or tablet and produces standard 1:1 physical hospital forms that slot directly into procedural trays and binder archives.

Can I see a live demonstration?

Yes — happy to walk through the entire platform with sample hospital checklists and test data, either in person or over screen-share.

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