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If you are in the other 87%, you might be interested in the new FREE Stat Gap
tool created by Eric S. Kastango and CriticalPoint. Through this quick online
quiz, you can see how you measure up on 17 different USP 797 compliance
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In This Issue...
New Island Hospital Selects
Sentri7 to Enhance Patient Safety and Improve Care
New
Island Hospital in Bethpage, NY has adopted
Sentri7
to give its staff real-time on-demand access to clinically relevant
information.
With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access to lab results,
medication records and patient demographics, data that previously resided in
different systems. Clinicians can write rules against the data to identify
opportunities for intervention and optimize medication use.
"This is yet another example of New Island Hospital using high-tech computer
programming to enhance the safety of our patients, and improve upon the great
care provided in the hospital," said Aaron E. Glatt, MD, President and CEO.
"New Island Hospital is fully committed to patient safety and service
excellence."
New Island Hospital can use the Sentri7 software to optimize antimicrobial
stewardship programs to prevent drug resistance. Sentri7 can compare patients
who are infected with a certain strain of bacteria to their
currently-prescribed antibiotic to make sure they are getting the most
effective treatment, and can flag patients who acquire a resistant strain like
MRSA.
"Sentri7 has facilitated quick access to meaningful, real-time information to
clinicians that has truly improved our patient safety culture," said Ihab
Ibrahim, PharmD, V.P. of Patient Safety & Clinical Program Development at New
Island Hospital. "This system does not only benefit the pharmacy department,
it in fact is a truly multidisciplinary system with applications for nursing,
infection control and quality improvement managers."
Sentri7 can also help the hospital comply with national standards and core
measures set by the government and hospital accreditation bodies. For example,
the program can flag patients that may have had a heart attack and check to
ensure they are taking aspirin, beta blockers or other preventative treatment
required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It can also
monitor patient on anticoagulants for the Joint Commission's National Patient
Safety Goal 3.
Read the full press release.
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Two On-Demand Webinars:
"Implementation and Measurement of a Standard Pharmacy Clinical Practice
Model" and "The Top 10 Gaps in USP 797 Compliance"
In
"Implementation and Measurement of a Standard Pharmacy Clinical
Practice Model" Steve Pickette, R.Ph., BCPS, Director System Pharmacy
Clinical Services for Providence Health & Services, describes their health
care delivery system initiative to convert 27 hospitals to a standard pharmacy
clinical practice model.
View the on-demand
webinar.
In "The Top 10 Gaps in USP 797 Compliance" Eric S. Kastango,
MBA, RPh, FASHP, reviews the top 10 gaps that have been personally observed or
reported in surveys. In addition to identifying these gaps, practical
solutions and resources are offered to help remove your roadblocks and then
close your gaps. View
the on-demand webinar.
Have you missed any of our other past free webinars? Check out the
webinar archive to view on-demand recorded versions and download
presentation slides.
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Pharmacy Face-Off: BCMA vs.
CPOE, Which Comes First?
Pharmacy OneSource is hosting a free webinar next Wednesday, September 23:
"Pharmacy Face-Off: BCMA vs. CPOE, Which Comes First?"
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/575697243
John Poikonen takes on Steven Rough in our first "pharmacy face-off."
Pharmacists will debate on Bar Code Medication Administration or Computerized
Physician Order Entry and which should be implemented first.
About the Speakers:
John Poikonen, Pharm.D. is the Clinical Informatics Director at UMass Memorial
Health Care, an Academic Medical Center and health system in central
Massachusetts. His career has been spilt between software development and
hospital pharmacy. He has been a director of pharmacy, software developer,
patient safety pharmacist and informatics leader over the last 29 years in
pharmacy. Most recently he was elected to the ASHP Executive Committee for
Pharmacy Informatics and Technology Section in 2007 and was the recipient of
the 2008 Leadership Award from the American Medical Informatics Association.
Steve Rough is the Director of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin
Hospital and Clinics, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the UW-Madison
School of Pharmacy. Steve has coordinated and implemented progressive pharmacy
services in virtually all practice settings. He has contributed six textbook
chapters and numerous other papers in the pharmacy literature related to
pharmacy administration and leadership, medication safety, the application of
automation and technology, operational benchmarking and a variety of other
management-related topics. In 2003, Steve was the recipient of both the
Wisconsin Pharmacist of the Year award and the ASHP Best Practices Award for
the paper he submitted describing the impact of point of care bar code
medication scanning technology on medication error reduction.
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MedStar Health - Tracking
corporate compliance with USP 797
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MedStar Health is a $3.5 billion non-profit, regional
healthcare system with a community-based network of eight hospitals and
other healthcare services in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region. Ray
Lake is the Director of Diversified Pharmacy Services and has been using Simplifi
797 since 2007. In this interview he explains how Simplifi 797 helps him
manage compounding activities across 10 pharmacy cleanroom operations. |
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.
Read the full interview.
See our new video demo of Simplifi 797 at
www.simplifi797.com.
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Memorial Health Center
Adopts Amplifi to Publish Medication Information Online
Memorial Health Center in Medford, Wisconsin has implemented
Amplifi to manage their formulary and communicate medication information
throughout the hospital.
"We were excited to find an Internet-based tool that will allow us to provide
up-to-the-minute information about our formulary in a convenient
user-friendly format. The additional medication databases available within the DIOne program
included with the product are a welcome addition to our drug information
resources," said Geoffrey Schnelle, RPh, Memorial Health Center's Director of
Pharmacy.
"Being a Critical Access Hospital without a 24-hour pharmacy, we believe this
product will be able to answer the medical and nursing staff's questions about
what medications are available in-house and where they are stocked," Schnelle
said.
Amplifi is a flexible, robust formulary management and pharmacy communications
application with integrated drug information. It provides Memorial Health
Center with the most versatile, easy-to-use tool to manage, update, and
communicate formularies in print, on the web, and on handhelds.
Get a 30-day free trial of Amplifi.
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