To contribute toward IV therapy and clinical nutrition scientific knowledge and experience, Health Robotics, a supplier of life-critical intra-venous medication robots, providing healthcare facilities in five continents with robotics technology, and Grifols, a Spain-based company engaged in the healthcare sector, have signed an agreement.
According to a press release, this exclusive cooperation agreement enables Grifols to contribute to its IV room of the future initiative with its Misterium state-of-the-art clean room products and IV therapy and clinical nutrition scientific knowledge and experience.
The agreement also includes the appointment of Grifols' scientific expert Dr. Oriol Prat as an additional member of Health Robotics' Scientific Advisory Board, where he will join representatives of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ochsner Clinic, Sutter Health, USC University Hospital, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Grifols is involved in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of plasma derivates, IV therapy solutions, enteral and parenteral nutrition, diagnostic systems, pharmacy automation, and medical materials and devices.
Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics' executive vice president, said that Grifols has designed and constructed more than 1.2 million square feet of clean rooms worldwide and managed more than 150 modular clean room installations at hospitals. Further he added that after witnessing the outstanding combined results of the joint implementation of Misterium and i.v.STATION at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, the company was convinced that global hospitals stand to greatly benefit from the synergies between the respective companies' experience, products, and services within the IV room technology sector.
Xavier Guix, vice president of marketing for Grifols' Hospital System Division, stated that among the advantages of Misterium modular clean rooms over conventional construction include their flexible, convenient and fast construction, usually within two to four weeks, with minimal disruption to the pharmacy's operations, ease of maintenance, GMP compliance, and integrated training tools and workflow analysis.
Recently, BioRobotics has exclusively selected Health Robotics’ i.v.STATION Robot and i.v.SOFT Workflow Engine for completing its objective in attaining the gold standard for IV admixtures automation in the Republic of Korea
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