BD
About
Multinational medical technology company — NYSE: BDX, ~$20B revenue. BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is one of the largest medical device companies in the world, providing medication management systems, specimen collection, infection prevention, diagnostics, and surgical instrumentation. In the advisory context, BD Pyxis automated dispensing cabinets are the most widely deployed medication dispensing technology in US hospitals — the bedside medication cabinet that nurses access for controlled...
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Ideal Customer
- BD's Pyxis and Alaris product lines target enterprise-scale acute care providers: large hospital systems, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), and multi-facility health systems that can leverage centralized enterprise management across multiple sites.
- The Pyxis ES platform is purpose-built for enterprise-wide standardization across health system campuses, while BD Alaris targets high-volume infusion environments including ICU, critical care, oncology, NICU/PICU, and ED settings within these organizations.
Key Differentiators
- BD's primary differentiators in the medication management space are market dominance, integrated platform depth, and switching cost advantages.
- BD Alaris holds approximately 55–60% U.S. infusion pump market share and has the largest installed base of any infusion system — with the greatest number of nurses trained on the platform and the most customers with active EMR interoperability.
Industries Served
- BD serves a broad range of healthcare and life science industries.
- Its primary end-users include hospitals and health systems, clinical laboratories, blood banks, physicians' offices, retail and institutional pharmacies, public health agencies, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, life science researchers, and academic and government institutions.
Service Coverage
- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is a global medical technology company with a presence in virtually every country worldwide.
- The United States is its largest single market, but BD organizes international operations across four regions: EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Greater Asia (Greater China, Japan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand), Latin America, and Canada.
Partnerships
- BD has established deep EHR interoperability partnerships with Epic and Oracle Health (Cerner) as its primary clinical integration partners for closed-loop medication administration via BD Alaris.
- BD is also listed as an official Epic integration partner for both outgoing infusion orders and incoming infusion documentation via HL7v2.
Company Size & Ownership
- BD was founded in 1897 by Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
- The company employs approximately 72,000 people globally and reported record fiscal year 2025 revenue of $21.8 billion.
Compliance & Certifications
- BD holds enterprise-level ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS), initially achieved in 2022 and confirmed through annual third-party surveillance audits, with the most recent completed in 2025.
- BD also maintains a SOC2+ program covering multiple products — including BD Pyxis Supply Technologies, BD Pyxis Medication Technologies, BD Pyxis Remote Support System, and BD Alaris — that collect and process patient health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
2 offeringsBD Alaris Infusion Systems
Smart infusion pumps with dose error reduction software (DERS) — Guardrails clinical decision support prevents infusion programming errors by checking doses against a drug library before infusion begins. Used in 90%+ of US hospitals for IV medication delivery. BD Alaris integration with Epic and Oracle Health enables closed-loop medication administration.
BD Pyxis Medication Management
Automated medication dispensing cabinets for hospital nursing units — the most widely deployed bedside medication dispensing system in the US. Pyxis ES cabinets store controlled substances and unit-dose medications, requiring nurse biometric authentication and dispensing documentation that flows to the EHR. Reduces medication errors vs. floor stock systems. BD Pyxis MedStation serves ED and critical care high-volume environments.
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