Medifilm: Web-based Order Entry And Therapy Validation

Medifilm AG, a company located in Oensingen, Switzerland, is one of the first enterprises worldwide to meet the strict medication quality requirements using a software solution (zero-tolerance strategy). The workload required to prepare medication as well as the wastage caused by unused medication was reduced significantly.

apixxo AG was contracted to prefect the order entry process as well as the validation processes used for therapy and medication. Using the featherlite framework, appixo implemented a web-based solution that meets the following requirements:

Distributed user-base

• Nursing homes and hospitals can order therapies directly for individual patients
• General practitioners can use the solution to validate therapies
• Pharmacies can validate medication

Monitoring and control of order entry and validation processes

Processing of order data to

• Plan Medifilm production
• Control of blister packaging
• Product tracking at unit level
• Tracking per dosage unit

Integration of external databases

• e-mediat hospINDEX: medication data

Solution characteristics:

Ability to prescribe individual pills (as well as half or quarter units)  

• Soft run-up or discontinuation or medication

Medifilm history

• Therapies and medication supplied per client
• Nursing homes and hospitals

Integration with SelectLine business software

• Production and costing data

Project Data 

Project realization

• Six weeks until productivity

Iterative approach in order to obtain a deep process optimization

Two-person project team to reduce effort required for coordination

"Thanks to our close cooperation with apixxo, Medifilm was able to use the complex order entry and validation processes live after only six weeks. We believe that apixxo is the ideal partner to continuously improve our business processes and to automate our production“, says Dr. Markus Meier, co-owner and managing director of AG.