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InstyMeds was founded in pursuit of a singular mission: leveraging technology to dispense prescription medications to patients at the point of care.<\/span>\u00a0 We wanted to make picking up prescriptions 24\/7 so easy that patients would want to choose InstyMeds.\u00a0 Yet we also knew that our technology would not make a difference unless patients and providers were confident that it was safe to use.<\/p> But what exactly did “safe dispensing” mean?\u00a0 For answers we turned to safety performance of pharmacies.\u00a0<\/p> Other studies performed over the past 35 years uncovered dispensing error rates in prescription filling operations ranging from 2% to 10%.1<\/sup>\u00a0 The seemingly low 1.7% error rate would have resulted in about 1,028 prescriptions filled with errors a year at a typical community pharmacy based on the average annual dispensing volume of 60,493 prescriptions in 2015.2<\/sup><\/p> InstyMeds brings the best pharmacy safety practices to point-of-care dispensing by designing safety features into everything we do, from dispenser design to the Patient Service Center operations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t We partnered with Elizabeth A. Flynn, PhD, RPh, a renowned expert in the field of dispensing accuracy, a published author of pharmacy systems research and a practicing licensed pharmacist.\u00a0 In 2014 Dr. Flynn performed a study of the accuracy of prescriptions dispensed by InstyMeds.\u00a0<\/p> The study also compared the accuracy of InstyMeds prescriptions with that of prescriptions dispensed by outpatient and community pharmacies involving pharmacist inspections of filled prescriptions.<\/p>A national study of dispensing accuracy, published in 2003, found that 50 community pharmacies in six states had an overall accuracy rate of 98.3%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>on a sample of 4,481 filled prescriptions.1<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/h5>
We challenged ourselves to do better than that and came up with a simple definition for safety: dispensing the right drug to the right patient every time!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>
Patients receive:<\/h4>
Using an InstyMeds dispenser:<\/h4>
<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo Assess Our Safety Practices We Hired an Industry Titan<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
After evaluating 1,001 prescriptions dispensed by 41 randomly-selected InstyMeds dispensers, Dr. Flynn concluded that 100% of prescriptions were dispensed correctly.3<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t