The Business Systems Division of Matrix won the project to implement computerized medical cabinets at Woodhull Hospital, which is part of the New York City public hospital system. The computerized storage cabinet manages an inventory of extremely sensitive equipment and supplies with a high level of security. Based on Matrix’s ERP system, Tafnit, the computerized cabinet supports inventory control and full documentation of dispensing, including the target consumption point.

Computerized cabinets are implemented in several storage rooms for medication and medical equipment at the hospital. Secure storage equipment has been supplied by Pegasus. The project is estimated at several hundred thousand shekels.

Matrix will implement a 2-bin system that enables automatic ordering whenever one of the storage units is empty. The system is operated through a touch screen and virtual keyboard by the medical staff of the department. The logistics staff will use wireless terminals to scan the empty cells in cabinets located in various departments. Wireless connectivity will link the cabinets to the hospital store rooms and/or directly to vendors by means of EDI.

This project will join the other three similar projects successfully completed by Matrix at Jacoby in the Bronx, Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, and the Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, all of which belong to the New York City public hospital system.

According to Israel Greenfeld, Director of the Projects Group in the Business Systems Division of Matrix, "we won this project after completing several successful projects in which the Business Systems Division deployed computerized medical cabinets at hospitals in greater New York. These hospitals have been reporting significant increases in the efficiency of the logistics staff due to full real-time monitoring of demand in the departments and of individual patients within each department."

Greenfeld added that the American company Pegasus, which conducted the purchasing process with Matrix in the three previous instances as well as in the present one, reached an agreement with Matrix for the marketing and deployment of computerized medical cabinet systems in additional medical centers in the US. He added further that the system interfaces with the supply management modules of various ERP systems. The user-friendly Web interface is available in Hebrew and English, and can be easily deployed in other languages.