San Jose, California, USA

Mickey McKay, Ariel Turgel, Mark Hearn, and Elisa Payer of Whipsaw, Inc. have designed the Omnicell Syringe Dispenser to securely dispense prefilled syringes in a hospital or clinic.

Omnicell Syringe Dispenser was awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Sometimes these syringes are filled with narcotics or dangerous drugs, so they must be controlled. 

This “dispenser box,” which holds 26 prefilled syringes, is placed in a cabinet with multiple dispenser boxes. 

When a syringe is needed for a patient, a nurse makes a software command in the cabinets’ interface, and the syringe is deposited onto a drawer below for retrieval. 

The dispenser fits cohesively within the entire product ecosystem without disrupting its existing workflows. 

Its foolproof “mechanical auger” configuration never jams and is utterly simple to load again after user authentication.

Project: Omnicell Narcotic Syringe Dispenser
Designers: Mickey McKay, Ariel Turgel, Mark Hearn, Elisa Payer, Whipsaw, Inc.
Manufacturers: Whipsaw, Inc.