Pharmacy Podcast Episode 176 Ensuring Patient Safety by Leveraging Automation
Patient Care & Assuring Patient Safety by leveraging Pharmacy Automation: About Pharmacists Mutual Companies Pharmacists Mutual Companies (PMC) has evolved into a specialized insurance resource for pharmacists, dentists, home medical equipment providers, home healthcare providers and other health professionals. Founded in 1909 as "Druggists Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa" by pharmacist, Al Falkenhainer; it was and remains today, a true mutual company, owned by our policyholders. Falkenhainer's goal was to provide low-cost insurance and prompt, fair claims service to members of the pharmacy profession. But more than that, he wanted to establish a company that could respond to the needs of the industry. More than one hundred years later, that goal still guides our company as we serve a variety of health professionals. Today, Pharmacists Mutual operates in 49 states and the District of Columbia, and has grown to be a nationally recognized leader in serving the insurance and risk management needs of the healthcare industry under the Pharmacists Mutual and PMC Insurance Solutions umbrella of companies: Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, Pharmacists Life Insurance Company and PMC Advantage Insurance Services, Inc. About Kirby Lester: Our Mission: Always Accurate, Affordable, Reliable, Simple. Since 1971, Kirby Lester has been reducing counting errors at a fraction of the cost of other automated dispensing devices. In fact, with systems that pay for themselves in months instead of years, Kirby Lester delivers the best quality control and return on investment possible. But accuracy and ROI aren't the only things on which we hang our lab coat. Our systems also make good sense because they are remarkably easy to use. All you need is a little counter space, a short tutorial, and you're in business. No other pharmacy technology company offers such practical, affordable, no-nonsense solutions. That makes us unique. Along with our simple, world-renowned tablet counters/pill counters, we offer systems that feature the latest in efficiency and dispensing safety like cassettes that automatically double-count, workflow software, onscreen drug imaging, order tracking, pharmacy management system interfacing, and other features previously only available on more expensive and complicated systems. We not only help improve counting accuracy and reduce labor time, but we also help eliminate errors. We offer a full line of durable tablet counting and bottle filling systems for settings as diverse as pharmaceutical and supplement manufacturing, agriculture, even law enforcement. But the thing that really makes us beam with pride is you. Today, more than 40,000 retail, hospital, specialty and mail order pharmacies and manufacturers in almost 40 countries rely on Kirby Lester. That's an amazing vote of confidence in our people, our technology and our company. And as long as our customers have a need to operate safer, simpler and smarter, we'll provide the means. You can count on it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.