What is RIVA?

Robotic IV Automation (RIVA) is a medical device developed by Intelligent Hospital Systems Inc. (IH Systems) which will be used by hospital pharmacies to automatically and accurately prepare IV syringes and bags. By automating the preparation of IV syringes and bags, RIVA will address the issues of safety for the patient and the pharmacy technician, efficiency and effectiveness in the pharmacy and the challenges of a changing regulatory environment.

Why is RIVA needed?

RIVA will allow hospital pharmacies to compound sterile preparations in a United States Pharmacopeia (USP) 797 environment while outputting admixtures in either syringes or bags. The automation of repetitive and complex tasks reduces the incidence of errors and contamination.

RIVA is an integrated system designed to automate the process of preparing IV admixtures. Key features:
   •   Electronic order entry
   •   Fully enclosed ISO Class 5 environment
   •   Fully automated preparation of syringe and bag doses...in any combination...in many sizes
   •   Up to 520 labeled, patient specific or batch doses, per 8 hr shift with one operator
   •   Complete electronic audit trail
   •   Designed to operate in the currently evolving regulatory environment

By using a combination of state-of-the-art technologies, RIVA has been designed to eliminate human involvement in the actual admixture preparation process.

Why is RIVA an improvement on currently available systems?

RIVA represents the final piece of automation in the hospital pharmacy environment.

 RIVA uses:  

•   Standard, off-the-shelf, sterile syringes and IV bags manufactured by a

variety of companies are used by the system.

•   Syringes (1 to 60 ml), IV bags (25 to 1000 ml) and drug vials (1 ml to 100

ml) can be loaded in any combination at one time, offering the user almost

unlimited dose preparation options.

•   Cross-contamination is virtually eliminated by the use of new sterile

syringes for each fluid transfer.

•   Production flexibility is maintained as both patient-specific and batch

orders can occur within the same production run.

•   Aspetic conditions and rigorous verification ensure the highest degree of patient safety.

•   The system's ISO Class 5 environment allows production of non-hazardous (e.g., antibiotics) and hazardous drugs (e.g., chemotherapy) with greatly improved operator safety.

•   Waste handling and system cleaning have been designed to meet high standards of hygiene and operator efficiency.

•   System and data security is maintained by tiered access.

•   Various levels of alerts/alarms signal if operator intervention is required.

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