New scan­ner test for the secur­­Ph­arm-sys­­tem

For seve­ral years now, End Users have been able to easi­ly check their scan­ners using NGDA’s scan­ner test and thus redu­ce their fal­se alerts in the secur­­Ph­arm-sys­­tem. A new ver­si­on of the scan­ner test is now available from our stra­te­gic part­ner NGDA.

Incor­rect­ly con­fi­gu­red scan­ners can lead to the Data Matrix Code with the uni­que iden­ti­fier not being read cor­rect­ly and the­r­e­fo­re a medi­cinal pack not being suc­cessful­ly che­cked. This usual­ly leads to a fal­se alert in the secur­­Ph­arm-sys­­tem. In addi­ti­on, medi­cinal packs that could not be suc­cessful­ly veri­fied may not be dis­pen­sed to pati­ents in accordance with the Dele­ga­ted Regu­la­ti­on. Reason enough to con­fi­gu­re the scan­ners cor­rect­ly. The new scan­ner test helps the End Users with this. It can be used to check whe­ther the scan­ner is set up cor­rect­ly or which typi­cal incor­rect set­tings should be cor­rec­ted.

The new test includes four dif­fe­rent Data­Ma­trix codes, which have to be scan­ned and eva­lua­ted one after the other. One thing has remain­ed the same: Scan­ning is car­ri­ed out in the End User soft­ware by means of a simp­le veri­fi­ca­ti­on. If all four veri­fi­ca­ti­ons at a work­sta­tion show a posi­ti­ve result during the test (“SP-780 scan­ner test suc­cessful”), the work­sta­tion is opti­mal­ly set up and fal­se alerts in the secur­Ph­arm sys­tem should no lon­ger occur due to tech­ni­cal pro­blems. Howe­ver, if an error is dis­play­ed, this must be rec­ti­fied and the test repea­ted. Other­wi­se, fal­se alerts may con­ti­nue to occur at this work­sta­tion due to the incor­rect scan­ner set­tings.

The test should be car­ri­ed out at all work­sta­tions - for exam­p­le at the HV desk as well as in the back office. secur­Ph­arm recom­mends repea­ting the test regu­lar­ly, espe­ci­al­ly if chan­ges have been made to the hard­ware or soft­ware.

The NGDA help­desk is available by e-mail for any queries regar­ding the test. Plea­se note that the NGDA help­desk can­not pro­vi­de any assis­tance regar­ding the hard­ware used. For this, plea­se cont­act the hard­ware sup­pli­er.