automatic data capture
point of sale
CHRU uses the Datalogic Memor
to assure hospital employee mobility while keeping connected to the main system
T
he Regional Hospital Centre/University of Tours (CHRU) campus area benefits from a privileged position in the heart of the
region. The establishment employs over 7000 people, making it a key player in the regional economy. This public health establishment groups together six hospitals offering the most important medical services. Since 1998, the CHRU of Tours has accommodated a number of construction and renovation projects, so as to ensure the availability of structures which are customised to meet the new requirements of the medical industry and to be able to respond to the patients and their families' needs. Today, the CHRU of Tours includes over 2000 beds, provides services to over 65,000 people a year and is looking for ways to accommodate another 375 people a day.
All types of cancers are treated at the Bretonneau hospital, home of the Henry S. Kaplan Centre, a specialist institution for onco-hematology. This centre includes a pharmaceutical unit called the Biopharmacy-Clinical- Oncology Unit (UBCO), with ISO 9001 certification. Every year it produces the products necessary for 25,000 chemotherapy treatments. The
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pharmacy has three production units, referred to as ‘Insulators’. These are high-profile units in which chemical substances (cytotoxics) used during chemotherapy in a controlled environ - ment are handled, guaranteeing sterility and security. Chemotherapy
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Thanks to Eticsys,
Polytech'Tours and their solutions with the Datalogic Skorpio and Datalogic Memor, we can now regulate each phase in real-time, and retrace all the operations in connection with the chemotherapy operation for a given patient.”
– M. Tournamille, pharmacist for CHRU of Tours.
treatment preparation takes place in four progressive stages: the prescription provided by the doctor is checked according to a specific protocol; the relevant preparation is produced according to predetermined sheet manufacturing; the finished product is monitored by a weighing system or monitoring analyser; and finally, the preparation is delivered to the patient. In addition, there are a
number of supplementary monitoring measures that can be recognised in each stage of the production chain.
Complete regulation
At CHRU of Tours, all of these activities are performed by computers, thereby providing complete traceability of the manufacturing process, from the prescription stage right up to the delivery stage. To do this, CHRU uses a traceability solution developed by Polytech and Eticsys, a company specialising in this field. M. Tournamille, a pharmacist for CHRU of Tours explains in more detail. “It was important for us to control/regulate each of these manufacturing stages and be able to ensure complete regulation of the preparations produced in our unit. Therefore, we turned to Eticsys, which was able to accommodate all our medical/ environmental limitations, providing us with a suitable solution.”
This complete solution, integrating both software and hardware aspects, was the result of a tightly knit collaboration between CHRU of Tours, the IT Laboratory of Tours University, Polytech'Tours (specialising in IT) (for the engineering/software side) and ETICSYS (hosting the project). >>
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