CytoCare®

+ RELIABILITY - With its comprehensive control system, CytoCare doublechecks each preparation and eliminates risks related to drug exchange or unacceptable dosage errors.

+ STERILITY - Through sophisticated airflow engineering, CytoCare maintains an ISO Class 5 clean room environment in its compounding area, protecting the preparation from chemical and biological contamination. Integrated UV lights sterilize the working surfaces overnight.

+ ACCURACY - CytoCare guarantees a dosage accuracy within 95%+. The therapeutic window of medications can be optimally used, providing your patients with the most effective treatment.

+ TRACEABILITY - Through state-of-the-art Information Technology every step from IV prescription to IV administration can be tracked in time and associated to an authorized user. Comprehensive documentation and audit trails are created automatically and give you total control of the overall process.

+ OPERATIONAL SAFETY - Scientific studies have shown that CytoCare prevents the risk of exposure to hazardous medications, needle-stick injuries and repetitive strain injury. CytoCare offers your staff a safe and motivating working environment.

+ USABILITY - With its intuitive and userfriendly interface, CytoCare decreases your dependence on scarce pharmacy staff and gives you total control over the entire compounding process.

+ FLEXIBILITY - CytoCare can handle a wide spectrum of different medications and medical devices, offering you the flexibility you need with the newest oncology protocols.

SUPPORTED PRODUCTS

Plastic syringes	3 ml, 10 ml, 60 ml
Plastic bags	50 to 1000 ml
Ecoflac® plus	50 to 1000 ml
Selected elastomeric infusors
Drug vials	up to 100 ml

+ ECONOMY - CytoCare is the solution for an optimized employment of your resources. 

Through its intelligent planning software, CytoCare helps you optimize medication usage and reduce waste of medications. 

Featuring a continuous production flow, CytoCare allows you to improve your throughput, respecting quality standards and safety regulations.

+ QUALITY - With CytoCare you can streamline your workflow by efficiently planning CSP schedules and coordinating your resources. CytoCare is your best solution to increase productivity while maintaining highest levels of quality.

Pharmacy Management Software

CytoPlan is a software application which is fully integrated with CytoCare. The CytoPlan module manages the process of preparing oncology medications, optimizes the pharmacy’s work cycle taking full advantage of receiving prescriptions in electronic format from the prescription software. CytoPlan may be used to manage a traditional (manual) drug preparation process or may be further integrated with an automated compounding solution such as the CytoCare robot.

April 2007 - January 2009

SafeChemo is an EU-funded project coordinated by B.Braun Melsungen AG, which brings together prestigious European healthcare institutions and leading edge industry players. The project targets the validation of Health Robotics' CytoCare™ system, a tool to increase patient safety, lower operators’ risk and reduce operating costs in the critical area of cancer care. SafeChemo aims at coupling technology implementation with a clinical reengineering approach. The three European pilot sites - the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust of London (UK), the Capital Region Pharmacy of Copenhagen (DK), and the South Tyrol Healthcare Trust of Bolzano (I) - have developed a joint validation protocol and defined outcome measures for efficiency, safety and human factors. The final results of the project will be published as a scientific paper in the second half of 2009. If you want to find out more about the preliminary results, please read the articles or download the poster on operator exposure published at the 2008 EAHP meeting in Barcelona.