The PHARYS operating software manages individualized dispensing on an industrial scale, and also ensures smooth interfacing with the other systems, technologies and processes used in the dispensing ecosystem. This supports:
Track and Trace. PHARYS tracks each capsule and pill, confirming that the right drug, in the right format, strength and quantity has been dispensed. This contributes to Medicine Adherence, ensuring patients receive and take the correct medicines prescribed for them, while managing the growing complexity of personalized treatments. Track and trace is an integrated aspect of PHARYS design, covering all modules and workflow steps, including pouch correction.
The track and trace capability in our system minimizes errors in those parts of the process that still require manual intervention, including removal of tablets from original packaging or preparing plates and carrying out corrections at the same time.
Errors are also greatly reduced due to INDIVION’s built-in operational characteristics. These include guiding operators via a consistent user interface, backed by scanning verification and interfacing with other databases to detect counterfeits. The integrated INDIVION-PHARYS solution has been engineered to reduce the potential for errors, from canister design to the entire pill pathway.
Aligning with the particular needs of the customer, PHARYS enables both centralized and individually directed reporting. Customers can therefore specify reporting on the end-to-end process as a whole or on any individual process stage.
Fast intervention. PHARYS enables dispensing organizations to define the error identification methods that work best for them, ensuring that any issues are identified at once. The built-in flexibility of INDIVION gives customers a wide range of options, from an associated correction station close to the main INDIVION system, right through to sending images of correction to a remote pharmacist for inspection and approval.
Enabling operational agility. VMI uses extensibility to maximize composability and minimize the potential for vendor lock-in. PHARYS can specify which component performs specific actions and guide operators to execute these actions correctly. This ensures, for example, that only pharmacists and other high-level supervisors can manually correct a pouch or by-pass a barcode verification, while guaranteeing compliance with all regulations and internal requirements.
These different options are made possible by the PHARYS architecture, which allows flexibility in sequence, with seamless integration of workflow process stages, together with different levels of automation and robotization.
PHARYS makes sure components work together to meet customer needs. These can range from:
• Planning different production tasks to fit in with shipping schedules.
• Grouping orders from different sources into a single production run to improve efficiency.
• Producing in batches by keeping together all rolls to be shipped at the same time.
• Or as free production tasks, in which rolls are produced in the order received or to maximize efficiency.
• Load balancing between multiple INDIVION systems, for example, to minimize plate medication or share canisters.
• Blending reproductions with regular production.
• Enabling customers to designate specific orders as having higher priority.
Preventing vendor lock-in. VMI understands that customers want the freedom to choose best of breed options for every part of their pharmacy environment, so VMI’s architecture is built for flexibility right through the complete lifetime of the solution.