In 2021, pharmacy leaders at Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh, began to use a new automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) system and soon experienced improvements in workflow, inventory management and other key performance areas.
Before the ADC rollout, “we used to put patient-specific meds in open bins, and there was no way to electronically track what we dispensed,” said Arpit Mehta, PharmD, MPH, FASHP, CPEL, the hospital’s director of pharmacy. With the