Pharmaceutical industry labeling system

automated

Every day in operating rooms, wasting controlled substances is one of the most inefficient and error-prone processes in healthcare. Small variations in delivered dose or wasted volume are difficult to address at the point of care. Differences between expected and reconciled volumes not immediately reconciled require pharmacy and the anesthesia provider to backtrack hours or days later. Waste logs become subject to increased scrutiny due to gaps and create perception of general inaccuracy. Cases stall, reconciliation drags, and the risk of diversion grows. At the same time, narcotic waste places a heavy burden—the responsibility to meet strict laws and mandates required of the hospital. These demands weigh heavily on anesthesia providers and pharmacy, adding stress to an already complex process. And perhaps the biggest gap of all: assay testing. Until now, verifying what was wasted matched what was prepared could only be done in pharmacy — creating extra steps, delays, and blind spots. That means testing couldn’t happen at the point where the drug was actually used. The Codonics Safe Waste System™ (SWS) changes everything. Integrated with the award-winning Safe Label System® (SLS), it’s the first and only solution to deliver: Real-time identification, measurement, assay, wasting, witnessing, and reconciliation — all in under 7 seconds, at the point of care. The breakthrough? A built-in spectrophotometer inside SWS. For the first time, assay testing happens in the OR, automatically by the provider as part of their normal waste workflow. The process is fast, painless, and seamless.