INET, I don't believe your thinking is accurate here:
"As I read it Henry Ford Health is part of the automotive group Ford, General Motors and Chrysler and Blue Cross and BS of Michigan who have been working towards assuring safety in hospitals. Having spent millions over the last few years in bar coding and computerizing prescriptions, Ford may be the first of them to switch to ValiMed as assurance."
I don't believe that Valimed is, or ever will replace bar coding and computerized prescriptions. The primary use is to provide additional QA to high-risk IV admixtures and to check narcotic returns from OR for diversion.
This is what Griffin has repeatedly stated in CDEx PR's.
If a validation system is needed to check computerized prescription filling, well, that's what ASD has. They claim they can do it in under a second nondestructively during the dispersing process.
The last I heard a pill needs to be crushed, then placed in the cuvette for testing using Valimed. If that's the case, it doesn't seem to be well-suited for everyday testing of pill prescriptions in a busy hospital pharmacy.
I believe that Valimed fills a niche need in health care systems for the validation of solutions and CDEX has targeted the most important applications.
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