Omnicell Inc., (NASDAQ:OMCL), today announced the company’s first fully automated multimed packing solution to assist pharmacists in improving their patients’ medication adherence. The Omnicell M5000 system is designed to automatically pack, seal, verify and label multimed blister cards for institutional pharmacies serving long term care facilities, retail pharmacies, and hospital pharmacies serving ambulatory and discharged patients.

 

The M5000 multimed blister packaging system is designed to support pharmacies’ efforts to help

patients stay true to physician-prescribed medication regimens and to increase pharmacy

profitability by improving practice workflow efficiencies and strengthening customer refill

loyalty.

 

Each year, the avoidable cost of poor medication adherence is estimated at more than $105

billion in the U.S alone. With more than 30 million Americans taking five or more maintenance

medications daily, pharmacists need ways to support the arduous task of keeping patients

compliant. According to the World Health Organization, “Although these medications are

effective in combating disease, their full benefits are often not realized because approximately

50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed” (1). Going beyond the common

practice of patients self-organizing their medications into pillboxes, the Omnicell M5000 system

creates personalized adherence blister cards to simplify the medication consumption process.

 

Research shows that patients become confident in their ability to take their medications, avoid

costly emergency room visits, and are 97% adherent when using multimed blister packaging vs.

61% in the control group (2). Beyond improving patient confidence and compliance, personalized

adherence packaging gives pharmacists the ability to attract and retain new patients, who can

each generate up to $5,100 in new revenue for the pharmacist each year (3).

 

 

“As an innovative pharmacy, we strive to support and engage our customers by offering

competitive medication management solutions,” says W. Percy Malone, PD, President,

Allcare Pharmacy, a facility evaluating the M5000 system in Arkadelphia, AR. “By providing

multimed blister packs, the insurance plans we partner with see positive impacts on Medicare’s

ratings of the benefits they offer. This encourages insurers to maintain partnerships with us, longterm.”

 

“We are proud to unveil the M5000 system as a continuation of our commitment to pharmacy

automation and improved patient care,” shared Troy Hilsenroth, Vice President, Non-Acute Care

Division, Omnicell. “Our pharmacist customers have asked for solutions that don’t just help, but

dramatically improve their patients’ confidence and ability to stay adherent. By differentiating

their pharmacies with Omnicell adherence packaging solutions and automating prescription

filling and verification, our customers can enjoy better patient outcomes, increased profitability

and stronger customer loyalty.”

 

 

Since 1992, Omnicell (NASDAQ: OMCL) has been creating new efficiencies to improve patient

care, anywhere it is delivered. Omnicell is a leading supplier of comprehensive automation and

business analytics software for patient-centric medication and supply management across the

entire health care continuum—from the acute care hospital setting to post-acute skilled nursing

and long-term care facilities to the home.

More than 3,000 customers worldwide have utilized Omnicell Automation and Analytics

solutions to increase operational efficiency, reduce errors, deliver actionable intelligence and

improve patient safety. Omnicell Medication Adherence solutions, including its MTS Medication

Technologies brand, provide innovative medication adherence packaging solutions to help

reduce costly hospital readmissions. In addition, these solutions enable approximately 6,000

institutional and retail pharmacies worldwide to maintain high accuracy and quality standards in

medication dispensing and administration while optimizing productivity and controlling costs.

 

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1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068890/

2 Federal Adherence of Medications to the Elderly (FAME)

3 2013-14 Economic Report on Retail, Mail and Specialty Pharmacies, A Fein, Ph.D., Pembroke Consulting., Inc.

and Drug Channels Institute