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Pharmacy OneSource: How has Simplifi 797 helped your pharmacy with USP 797?

Ray Lake: Simplifi 797 has enabled 10 pharmacy cleanroom operations in our hospital system to move manual paper logging of USP 797 tasks to the web. Now that the state of Maryland has specific inspections targeted to cleanroom pharmacies, the capability to print monthly reports is also useful documentation to show inspectors. We just purchased a volumetric air sampler and having cleanroom diagrams to depict air sampling locations and online P&P's in one place is very helpful in our training efforts.

Pharmacy OneSource: What tasks outside of 797 are you using Simplifi for?

Ray Lake: Our Central Intravenous Admixture Center (CIVAC) is preparing to register as a manufacturer. We plan to monitor our cGMP compliance using the task recording capabilities of Simplifi 797. The batch feature of Simplifi 797 will also be very useful to us. We also use Simplifi 797 as a repository for our internal policies, procedures and documents.

Pharmacy OneSource: What do you like best about Simplifi 797?

Ray Lake: In the past year we have built half a dozen cleanrooms in our system. They are a significant investment where you want to ensure they are maintained as the day they opened. Corporately, tracking our pharmacies compliance to 797 within one web-based application is really powerful. I can have meaningful conversations with our sites over the phone based upon the content viewed mutually in Simplifi 797.

Pharmacy OneSource: Any other comments you have about Simplifi 797 or Pharmacy OneSource in general?

Ray Lake: If I have questions about the best way to handle things, the customer service at Pharmacy OneSource is very accessible and strives to answer questions thoroughly and to my satisfaction. I find that as I have come up with desired features Pharmacy OneSource has listened and implemented them in software revisions. This is very rewarding and encouraging to have a vendor work collaboratively with you in this way.

Participant:
Ray Lake, R.Ph., M.S., Director, Diversified Pharmacy Services
MedStar Health - Elkridge, MD

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