A Complete Focus on Addressing Safety and Performance Gaps

The Ivenix Infusion Management System includes a lightweight pump, information system, and a proprietary administration set that is now in final production design.


The pump features a large, intuitive, color touchscreen user interface designed to reduce the risk of user errors. Interactions are clear and unnecessary steps are eliminated, simplifying programming and training for new users.

The information system is a secure, wireless, web-based architecture, providing a broad array of patient-specific infusion information and analytics out-of-the-box without integration, while easily enabling open, pluggable, and scalable integration with the EMR and other information systems. The infusion device itself is designed to be highly intelligent and incorporates many elements of an information system within it. This will allow the device to interact with the larger system, as well as operate as a standalone device. This transformational architecture also will allow hospitals to leverage valuable patient infusion data at each level of integration, supporting quality and cost-capture initiatives.

With a pneumatic pumping mechanism that measures flow and automatically adjusts to maintain flow accuracy, the pump offers flow continuity even at low flow rates, particularly important for critical medications and in special patient populations. Because the pump mechanism delivers gravity independent accuracy, there is no need to worry about the height of the medication bag relative to the pump. The pump mechanism also addresses clinical efficiency issues by automating secondary infusions, minimizing nuisance alarms, and eliminating the need for calibration.

Why a New Infusion Management System Is Critical

Infusion pump technology hasn't kept pace with health IT and technology advances in healthcare delivery. Most of the core technology in use today was developed years before the introduction of modern, compact computing platforms, or the use of cloud storage, and when only 1.5 percent of the nation's hospitals had implemented a comprehensive EMR.

From January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2009, more than 56,000 adverse events and 710 deaths associated with infusion devices were reported to the FDA-more than for any other medical technology. During this period, there were 87 pump recalls. Patient safety issues and recalls carry significant financial implications: infusion-related adverse drug events add more than $2 billion to annual healthcare costs in the United States.1

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