Pyxis Corporation

Pyxis Corporation was a San Diego company co-founded by Ronald R. Taylor and investor Tim Wollaeger in 1987.

[2][3] The company continued to grow, eventually reaching 1,500 employees, and in 1996, it was bought by Cardinal Health for $867 million in stock.

[4][5][6] In 2009 Cardinal Health completed the spin-off of its clinical and medical products businesses based in the previous Pyxis Corporation products into an independent medical technology company named Carefusion, with David Schlotterbeck as CEO.

[7][8] In October 2014, Becton Dickinson bought Carefusion for a price of $12.2 billion in cash and stock.

Pyxis products allowed healthcare personnel to avoid the manual recording of drugs dispensed or used by nurses and pharmacies based in a computerized and interconnected infrastructure, and allowed for the development of decentralized medication storages.