things around at Pyxis?
“I don’t think there was any sort of ‘Aha! This is it!” Taylor told the audience. “We really listened to the constituents who were our potential customers—the pharmacists and nurses.”
Taylor said he viewed the Pyxis Medstation as the healthcare industry equivalent of the automated teller machines that banks began introducing in the 1980s. At the time, Taylor added, nurses had been distributing medications to patients in hospitals in the same way for decades. “They had been doing it in a manual process for so long that they didn’t really realize that it was inefficient,” he said.
The Pyxis Medstation was originally conceived as an ATM for safely storing, dispensing, and tracking narcotics. The system proved to be so effective, however, that its use expanded to include dispensing all kinds of medications and hospital supplies. The Pyxis system modernized the medication management, streamlined workflow, reduced losses and manual errors, and transformed healthcare.
Taylor is the 11th inductee into the Connect Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Past honorees include Qualcomm’s founding CEO Irwin Jacobs, SAIC founder J. Robert Beyster, former IDEC Pharmaceuticals CEO William Rastetter, and Hybritech CEO Ted Greene.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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