1. AcuDose-Rx
Key Benefits
• Optimize medication inventory
and put an end to stockouts
• Maximize your technology
investment—with progressive
software upgrades and a cabinet
engineered to last
• Protect your investment with
world-class service and support
• Support on-the-go nurses with
fast, intuitive workflow
• Choose from among the most
flexible, cost-effective storage
options to balance safety and
accessibility
Put an End to Costly Stock Outs
McKesson’s all-new AcuDose-Rx® automated dispensing cabinets ensure nurses always get
the medications they need right away. So, pharmacy gets fewer calls from nurses, freeing
pharmacy technicians for more productive work. Medication inventory is optimized for each
cabinet using McKesson’s exclusive RightStock™ system, which cuts down on stock outs
and reduces inventory costs. Drawers and pockets hold the right amount and variety of
medications to manage inventory more efficiently. Plus, the durable, jam-resistant drawers
ensure easy access every time, and the built-in monitoring system provides early warning to
avoid potential breakdowns.
Automation Solutions

2. AcuDose-Rx – 2
Nurses Get Meds Quickly, While Pharmacy Oversight Improves
Nurses prefer the new, intuitive AcuDose-Rx Flexible Storage. AcuDose-Rx offers the
cabinet workflow that requires fewer touches smartest choices for storing medications,
and gets them in and out of cabinets fast, with multiple options to address patient
so they have more time for patient care. needs while balancing safety, accessibility
Meanwhile, AcuDose-Rx cabinets integrate and economy. Each AcuDose-Rx main
the systems, service, and support needed to cabinet accommodates up to 15 drawers—
keep the medication-use process running the most on the market—with three
smoothly—at a manageable cost that fits security levels. In fact, AcuDose-Rx has
within your long-term strategic vision. room for more secure line items than any
other cabinet. Plus, you get added flexibility
Tab View Navigation. Nurses will quickly with the widest variety of drawer sizes and
find what they need because smart storage pockets available.
tabs organize patient medications into
Green arrow indicators guide users to the Scheduled, STAT, PRN, and All Orders views. Most Integrated Cabinet. AcuDose-Rx is
correct storage location. powered by the same, versatile Connect-Rx®
Dispense By Time. This exclusive feature— software platform that drives all McKesson
The RightStock System through integration with the clinical order— pharmacy automation solutions, and
enables nurses to view actual medication which interfaces with McKesson Horizon
The RightStock™ System builds on McKesson’s due times. Not only is this the safest and Paragon systems, plus more than 90
inventory management expertise. Available method for dispensing scheduled doses, pharmacy information systems.
exclusively with AcuDose-Rx cabinets, RightStock but nurses can better organize patient med
automatically optimizes cabinet inventory, passes safely and on time. This feature Maximize Your Technology Investment
reduces expired medication rates, and puts is ideal for patients with irregular dosing McKesson helps you keep pace with
an end to stock outs. The system combines schedules. technological advances while protecting
intelligent features that enable you to: your investment over time.
Closed Loop Administration. Available
• monitor and dynamically adjust inventory exclusively in AcuDose-Rx, both nursing • Premium implementation services make
levels based on historical or peak usage, and pharmacy for the first time will have for a smoother transition for pharmacy
per med and per cabinet an accurate record of when a patient’s and nursing.
medications are dispensed from a cabinet
• prevent potential stock outs before they and when they are administered. This • U.S.-made from durable steel,
happen with automatic re-order triggers feature is enabled by cabinet-to-bar- AcuDose-Rx cabinets feature jam-
code medication administration system resistant drawers, and are engineered to
• set restock frequency based on your needs integration. outlast the competition.
• ensure permanent medications remain FastEntry™ Biometrics. This single-touch, • Your cabinet investment is protected by
available in each cabinet secure logon lives up to its name because certified Support Center Practices (SCP),
no secondary ID—password or ID badge U.S.-based support, 24x7x365, whenever
scan—is necessary. Plus, you can enroll you need it.
multiple fingerprints for each individual.
• Get unprecedented flexibility and
Robust Reporting. Report generation just scalability in monitoring temperatures of
got simpler. More than 70 standard reports rooms, refrigerators, freezers, incubators,
are ready to run out of the box from any and more—across the hall or across the
networked station. Re-run common reports campus.
without re-entering all parameters, and use
everyday terms (“last 7 days”, “yesterday,”
etc.) to quickly enter dates.
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