PillPick Automated Packaging and Dispensing System

PillPick is the only pharmacy automation system that can provide unit-dose packaging, storage and dispensing —making it a completely automated solution, from manufacturers’ packaging to patient specific dispensing. PillPick allows pharmacies to increase picking, packaging and dispensing
efficiency, eliminate medication errors and improve patient safety.

Advantages

• Fully Automated – from manufacturers‘ packaging to patient-specific dispensing
• Advanced Design – two robots support task redundancy and productivity
• Overwrap Module – automates unit dose packaging and bar coding of bulky containers and non-solids for improved control and traceability

Integrated PillPick System Components:

Package

• Package Canister Workstation

Transfer solid medications from manufacturers’ packaging into tamper-proof PillPick Canisters. Canisters are encoded with medication-specific information, written to a radio frequency tag (RFID) and output to a barcode label. Pharmacists verify medications in canisters before they are packaged.

• PillPick Canister Loader

Accepts up to 12 canisters to convey into the packager, reducing the need for operator intervention PillPick Packager Packages, bar codes and labels pills into unit doses, with a unique serial number for automated dispensing and beside verification

• AutoPhial™ Overwrap Module

Fully integrated module overwraps vials, syringes, ampoules and cups, allowing these items to be bar coded, stored and dispensed automatically, including on a PickRing

Store

• PillPick Robots

Two robots can run simultaneously, allowing for both multi-tasking and redundancy. One robot loads unit dose bags from the packager into the storage unit and then picks unit dose bags for loading onto the PickRing. The second robot retrieves returned unit dose bags from the Returns
window and loads them into the storage unit.

• PillPick Storage Unit

The automated, high-density, robotic warehouse that receives, loads, and stores up to 51,060 barcoded unit doses* including a combination of oral solids and vials, cups, ampoules and syringes

Dispense

• PickRing

Each PickRing supplies a 12 or 24-hour supply of barcoded, patient-specific medications on a patented, flexible, plastic ring, labeled for bedside verification. Each PickRing includes a summary label listing each drug

PillPick is part of an end-to-end, integrated solution of Swisslog equipment and software that controls and manages medication from wholesaler to patient. Swisslog solutions for medication packaging, storage and dispensing were inspired by the need for safer medication distribution practices:

• Improve legacy automation for medication packaging, storage and dispensing
• Reduce the risk of dispensing and administering the wrong medication
• Create a more efficient pharmacy workflow