Some Key Advantages of Pandora

Detect, Document and Deter Drug Diversion

Drug diversion is a concern for all hospitals, and implementing an effective diversion control program helps to protect patient safety, as well as your hospital's reputation. While the physical access controls inherent to automated dispensing systems have proven to lower the potential for drug diversion, an effective diversion control program is proven to be more successful with enhanced ability to monitor, track, and analyze large volumes of automated dispensing data.

With Pandora's flexible reports, it's easy to pinpoint critical diversion indicators, such as anomalous usage, discrepancy patterns, override/cancellation metrics, and bedside dispensing activities. This makes it easier for you to detect, investigate, and document potential diversion issues. It also helps to deter future diversion from ever occurring.

Streamlined Audits & Ongoing Compliance

Generating Pandora reports on a regular basis is an excellent way for your facility to perform regular self-audits on dispensing trends and transactions. This is designed to promote ongoing compliance and significantly reduce your risks of unfavorable audit outcomes from regulatory agencies such as JCAHO, DHS, DEA, and state boards. You will also have the ability to run on-demand compliance reports that auditors who are familiar with Pandora now request by name.

Monitor and Resolve Discrepancies

Pandora's discrepancy and resolution features are proven to dramatically reduce the complexity, duration, and cost of maintaining an accurate resolution database. Pandora also provides you with documentation support for adjusting resolution records when an inaccurate resolution entry occurs. With Pandora you can directly enter resolutions for unresolved discrepancies or correct existing resolutions that were insufficiently documented. Pandora makes investigating discrepancies less difficult by providing previous access information as well as comprehensive information about the nature of the incident.

Perform Cost, Utilization, and Inventory Analysis

Proper cost management and inventory control is important in any business, but in the hospital pharmacy, it is absolutely vital. With Pandora, you will have access to your dispensing system's cost, usage, and inventory information—information that will keep you in compliance with regulatory agency requirements and increase efficiency in your pharmacy.

Pandora produces a variety of inventory reports. Some of which help to:

• Evaluate which medications are below optimal par levels, or analyze stock replenishment activities.
• Identify obsolete and fast-moving stock to improve your pharmacy's inventory management practices and save valuable storage space.
• Identify duplicate Med ID and Med Name entries, which will virtually eliminate redundant formulary data entry.