Automation Solutions
Data-Driven, Customer-Centric Pharmacy Automation
We are committed to automation solutions that deliver optimized production resulting in superior patient care. Machines alone, however, cannot meet this goal. To help you realize increased production capacity, efficiency, and accuracy, we always start by asking, “What are your goals with this equipment?” Then we work together to create an actionable workflow plan to make those goals a reality. JFCRx is more than just an equipment vendor. We are a long-term partner that provides the solutions pharmacies need to be successful.
Automation Conquers Labor Challenges
Prescription filling, inventory management, and medication dispensing can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Dependable and accurate automation solutions allow pharmacy staff to focus on patient care. With options designed for small to large footprint facilities, we have an automation solution to fit the needs of every pharmacy.
Leverage Automation for Cost-Savings
How can you find long-term cost savings and grow revenue while reducing costs in the complex healthcare landscape? The right automation solution helps you to:
- Save on labor by streamlining prescription filling processes
- Reduce the risk of rework due to errors
- Make inventory management more efficient
- Provide better control and monitoring of medication management
Without attentive customer service, even the best automation solutions will fall short. We take to heart our customers’ toughest challenges and everyday needs. Then we craft the automation solution workflow to help each pharmacy continuously improve and grow. An important part of our consultative approach is to show pharmacies how to leverage automation equipment for new revenue channels.
Automation solutions minimize the risk of human error in dispensing medication (which can negatively impact patient safety) by improving accuracy in dispensing and labeling. This can directly impact patient care and health outcomes.
Find a Solution
Through proven blister card and pouch packaging solutions, we help pharmacies improve patient medication adherence while optimizing production and efficiencies. Managing medication adherence is a key challenge for patient outcomes and overall cost of care. Partnering with JFCRx’s Adherence Solutions allows pharmacies to meet these challenges.
Vial filling technology helps pharmacists to more efficiently and accurately dispense medications – versus traditional manual processes. This means staff can spend more time on patient care and depend upon the accuracy and verification capabilities of their vial filling solution.
Only JFCRx offers a complete suite of pharmacy automation solutions managed through one cloud-based ecosystem, Enlite. This transformative software turns any number of disparate systems into a single solution – and delivers a higher level of efficiency, analytics, and reporting not available before in the industry. Enlite addresses inefficiencies and communication barriers in the pharmacy industry’s existing hardware ecosystem.
Frequently Asked Questions
The main benefits of pharmacy automation for pharmacies are two-fold: it enables pharmacies to enter new markets that require automation for necessary adherence packaging, and it streamlines time-consuming manual tasks.
Pharmacies struggling with shrinking margins can leverage automation to enter new markets and find new revenue streams by serving entities such as:
- Long-term care and skilled nursing facilities that require precise medication management and adherence packaging such as pouches
- Long-term care at-home programs that bring institutional-level medication management to home settings
- Hospitals and healthcare facilities that need unit-dose and patient-specific packaging for inpatient and discharge medications
Manual tasks streamlined via automation can include, but are not limited to, prescription filling, inventory management, and medication dispensing. Automation:
- Improves accuracy and patient safety by reducing human error
- Speeds up prescription processing, thereby decreasing customer wait times
- Enhances workflow efficiency, allowing staff to focus on clinical services
- Enables better inventory management that optimizes stock levels and minimizes waste
These improvements lead to increased patient satisfaction, enhanced pharmacy reputation, and better overall operational performance.
JFCRx™ delivers automation solutions for adherence packaging such as multi-dose blister card and pouch packaging equipment that help pharmacies improve patient medication adherence while optimizing production and efficiencies. Automated solutions from JFCRx minimize the risk of human error in dispensing medication and improve accuracy in dispensing and labeling.
Scalable pharmacy automation isn’t a given with every vendor, and scalability is important for pharmacy growth. Ensure that this capability is available when selecting the vendor for your pharmacy automation equipment. Modern pharmacy automation systems that are designed with scalability in mind allow pharmacies to expand their capacity as prescription volumes grow.
Scalable solutions can accommodate business growth by expanding the capacity of initial systems or providing upgrade paths to more advanced models. This ensures that the initial automation investment remains viable and continues to deliver value as the pharmacy business expands, whether through increased prescription volumes, expanded service offerings into new markets, or additional locations.
JFCRx is dedicated to developing innovative and scalable hardware and software to fit the needs of any pharmacy, with options designed for small- to large-footprint facilities. The TruScript™ vial-filling system features a scalable design that can link up to five units together to expand formulary capacity, accommodating growing prescription volumes. The complete suite of pharmacy automation solutions available is managed through one cloud-based ecosystem, Enlite™, which turns any number of disparate systems into a single solution.
Pharmacy automation helps reduce pharmacy operational costs through multiple mechanisms:
- Streamlining labor-intensive processes
- Reducing medication errors that require costly rework
- Optimizing inventory management to minimize waste
- Leveraging imaging and verification technology to minimize manual checks
- improving workflow efficiency
By automating repetitive tasks like counting, dispensing, and packaging medications, pharmacies can reduce staffing requirements while maintaining or improving accuracy. Leading-edge pharmacy automation solutions include advanced imaging and verification technology to reduce time-consuming manual checks and streamline production of unit-dose and multi-dose packaging. Additionally, better inventory control prevents overstocking and reduces medication waste, while improved accuracy eliminates the costs associated with correcting dispensing errors.
JFCRx directly addresses cost reduction through efficiency with its TruCard™ system, which can help pharmacies reduce pharmacist check time by up to 70%, while its TruPak™ system can reduce adherence pouch packaging machine downtime and pouch rework by up to 80%.
JFCRx’s automation solutions save on labor by streamlining prescription filling processes, reducing the risk of rework due to errors, making inventory management more efficient, and providing better control and monitoring of medication.
Pharmacy automation enables business expansion by increasing production capacity, allowing pharmacies to handle higher prescription volumes without increasing staff. By offering specialized services like adherence packaging, pharmacies can expand into medication synchronization programs and clinical programs that require specific packaging formats. Automation also opens doors to new revenue streams by freeing staff time from routine, manual, and repetitive tasks, and allowing them to focus on value-added services such as immunizations, medication therapy management, and patient counseling.
JFCRx takes a consultative approach to show pharmacies how to leverage automation equipment for new revenue channels, helping each pharmacy continuously improve and grow. Its solutions allow pharmacies to expand services like offering adherence packaging, which might be critical for securing contracts with local nursing homes or at-home care programs that require specific packaging types. Further, its commitment to “analytics-driven automation” means JFCRx leverages actionable data to build pharmacy workflows that create efficiency and new opportunities for revenue and growth.