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Why IV Automation Is Critical for Sterile Compounding

Omnicell

Stephanie Gallagher, PharmD, MBA Senior Clinical Product Marketing Manager, Omnicell Imagine if Amazon lost one out of every 10 packages. So why, as clinicians, are we not focused on improving the documented one in 10 inaccuracies in sterile compounded products? Or the airlines lost 10% of passenger bags.

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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding. What does it mean when a pharmacy is compounding?