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Safety solutions

At Cardinal Health, we’re committed to helping our customers improve the quality and safety of patient care through a variety of products and services from across our business. With our unmatched capabilities and exceptional connectivity, we are dedicated to delivering indispensable, integrated solutions that enable health care professionals to focus on what really matters - improving people's lives.
 
Rxe-Source is an innovative service that helps our customers improve patient safety at the point of prescription. Cardinal Health pharmacists are on duty around the clock to review prescriptions and to ensure that a patient’s medications don’t negatively interact with each other. Orders are returned to the hospital system for administration within 20 minutes of receipt, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
 
SMARTServiceSM, The Alaris® Center of our Alaris Products business provides an engaging environment for both classroom learning and discussion of best practices in medicine safety. Our team of registered pharmacists and nurses, and professional project managers, bring to bear their many years of experience in all of our training. Our process-improvement training has been shown to increase clinician satisfaction.
 
Facial protection, including specialized procedure masks available from our medical products business, helps to promote respiratory etiquette and limit the spread of infections.
 
Nuclear pharmacy services has "The Total Solution," which includes value-added safety and operational expertise about each radiopharmaceutical we deliver.
 
Blow/fill/seal technology requires no human contact with medicines, mitigating the risk of contamination and improving medication safety.
 
Tiburon™ fabric and Astound™ surgical gowns use a unique three-layer microfiber composite fabric that increases patient comfort and helps prevent surgical site infections.
 
BioSoft™ alcohol gel, our hand antiseptic, is a fast-acting, anti-microbial gel that kills 99.999% of bacteria in 15 seconds, helping to improve hand hygiene and control infections.
 
Medication and patient safety is paramount at Cardinal Health. From prescribing … to transcribing … to dispensing … to administering, our customized solutions help customers improve the safety of the medication use process
 
Esteem® Stretchy Nitrile exam gloves are specially designed for high-risk situations where the health care provider risks greater exposure to blood or body fluids. They’re also safe for use with chemotherapy drugs and other harsh chemicals that could otherwise damage gloves. This infection control product helps to increase the safety of clinicians and patients.
 
Guardrails® Safety Software is a package containing a suite of proprietary applications to support hospitals in designing, implementing and analyzing clinical best practices, and ultimately, improve medication safety and clinical productivity by building a total quality management (TQM) process for intravenous (IV) medication administration at the point of care.