Health Robotics and Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin have entered into a definitive agreement through which Charite will install an i.v.STATION robot at its Centrum 14 during the second half of 2009.

 

Health Robotics is a supplier of life-critical intra-venous medication preparation, compounding, and dispensing Robots, providing healthcare facilities with robotic technology and software automation solutions. Charite is claimed to be one of the oldest hospitals in Germany and among the largest of university clinics in Europe today.

 

Officials at Health Robotics said the i.v.Station is a centrally-controlled, modular distributed flexible redundant patient-specific intra-venous (i.v.) automation robot for non-hazardous drug preparation, compounding, and dispensing in central pharmacy locations, satellite pharmacies, and even patient care workplaces. Constructed around a scalable, distributed, and fail-safe architecture, i.v.STATION offers final container flexibility, life-critical patient safety, and robotic precision and performance.

 

As IV admixture operations are faced with difficulties like serious medication errors, high costs, turn-around time, waste, regulatory issues, lack of audit trails, motion injuries, space constraints and difficulty in maintaining adequate and trained clinical staff, using the i.v.Station robot will safely, accurately, and cost-effectively automate the preparation of non-hazardous IV Admixtures.

 

Health Robotics also said that partnering with an institution that is known around the globe for its research and patient care excellence will offer them a great opportunity to launch Health Robotics' direct operations in the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

The company also recently signed a definitive agreement in the People’s Republic of China and Devon International Group (DIG) as well as a five-year strategic partnership with Grifols S.A., a pharmacy automation provider in Spain, Portugal and South America.