Compounding software with Swiss ALT, LMT and EMT pricing

It guides each magistral preparation step by step and documents it. LMT PRO reads the weight from the connected scale, checks every lot by barcode, records each step in the compounding record and prints the label. It also prices each preparation under the Swiss list of medicines with tariff; in German it is called ALT PRO, in Italian EMT PRO.

The price is the sum of the substances by quantity band, the containers in whole containers and the manipulations in tax points at CHF 1.05; an SL specialty is found by its GTIN and charged from its public price. LMT PRO shows the breakdown on the formula, when the formula is chosen during compounding, on each assignment and on the invoice, by the same rules everywhere. A line without a tariff price is estimated from the sale prices of the packs in stock and marked with an asterisk, or shown without a price.

Yes. The tariff tables ship with the application, so each new edition of the ALT, LMT or EMT arrives with an LMT PRO update. The Specialties List (SL) is downloaded from the federal publication service under Preferences, and LMT PRO flags it once it is more than 30 days old. When a specialty with an older price is opened, LMT PRO compares it with the published price and offers to update it, without overwriting anything silently.

Before each weighing the lot is scanned: LMT PRO refuses a lot of another substance, an expired lot, a lot past its period after opening and a lot not yet released. On the connected scale, a bar shows live where the weight stands against the target: green within tolerance, yellow in the alert band (±10 % by default), red beyond it, where the weight cannot be accepted by default. Confirming a weight outside tolerance records a deviation with its category and a justification.

Only an approved formula can be compounded; approval is an electronic signature recorded with the person and the date. Any edit withdraws the approval until the formula is approved again, and each preparation refers to the exact version it was made from. Triturations and dilutions are preparations in their own right, with a batch and an expiry date; when a formula uses one, the scale asks for the amount that carries the substance required.

For capsules, suppositories and tablets, the control step weighs a sample for uniformity of mass under Ph. Eur. 2.9.5: LMT PRO proposes how many units to weigh, applies the tolerance of the pharmaceutical form and shows whether the batch passes. The limits are set per pharmaceutical form in the preferences, together with the sampling rule. The preparation is then released or rejected in quality control with an electronic signature; a preparation that has not been released cannot be dispensed.

The label carries the pharmacy, the patient or ward, the formula and its substances, the batch, the preparation and expiry dates, the period after opening, storage, directions for use and a barcode that leads back to the preparation. The template is set per formula and prints on a label printer or on A4 label sheets, from any free position. Every preparation also produces a compounding record with each step, weighing and lot used, and a certificate of conformity, both ready to print from the history.

Every change, sign-in and electronic signature is in the audit trail, with the person, the old and new value and the server time; the trail can only be added to and is kept for the life of the installation. Traceability runs both ways: from the lot received, through the weighing, to the preparation, through triturations too. From the history, each preparation can be followed from its formula version to the steps as executed, and printed.

A dedicated menu produces the list of authorised users, the controlled-drug register with every stock movement, and the destruction list. Before and after every weighing of a controlled drug, the container is weighed on the scale and checked against its recorded content, and each operation requires a witness's countersignature. Only users holding the matching right can open controlled formulas and preparations; for everyone else they appear blurred.

Yes. In the statistics, LMT PRO sums a formula's annual production from its completed preparations, multiplies the five factors chosen by the responsible pharmacist and compares the score with the site's threshold, 100 by default. It shows the five factor values, the score and the indicated licence route: cantonal or Swissmedic.

In German, French or Italian, as each user chooses: the language follows the person signed in, whatever the workstation. The tariff's manipulations appear in its own wording in that language, and the module is called ALT PRO in German, LMT PRO in French and EMT PRO in Italian. LMT PRO is also available in further languages.

LMT PRO runs on macOS, iOS and iPadOS, Android tablets and phones, Windows, Windows on Arm and Linux. The database stays on your premises or in your own cloud: local for a single workstation, or on a shared database server for several. Your data stays yours, with no lock-in.