Hospital serving Ohio since 1892 Implements MedBoard™ (2/26/2010)
Identified as one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the country by Thomson Reuters for four years, an award-winning hospital has selected MedBoard™ as their hospital pharmacy Medication Tracking System. With MedBoard™, medications are tracked throughout the preparation, approval and delivery processes using wireless and tethered barcode scanners. Real-time data is then made available to pharmacy and nursing users through a secure, HIPAA-compliant website. MedBoard™ will enhance productivity and workflow efficiency by queuing and prioritizing orders to decrease calls to pharmacy and minimize lookups. In addition, MedBoard™ will reduce waste and re-work of orders while enhancing communication between nursing and pharmacy. Lastly, MedBoard™ will allow the pharmacy to demonstrate performance to improve and quantify delivery times while justifying staffing levels with the goal to ensure patient safety and accurate treatment according to prescribed schedules. The product was licensed under a relationship with Pharmacy OneSource.
Award Winning Rural Hospital implements Clinical Measures™ (1/29/2010)
An award winning Colorado that is among the top 5 percent nationwide in patient experience, a recipient of HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ has implemented MedKeeper’s Clinical Measures™. Clinical Measures™ is an easy-to-use system that documents cost savings, reports the value of pharmacy activities, and justifies staffing. Clinical Measures™ allows the client to quickly and efficiently track clinical interventions, activities, ADEs, medication errors, medication area inspections and more using only a Web browser or a handheld device. Once entered, the data can be reported in rich, graphical format, or downloaded to the database of your choice. The product was licensed under a strategic relationship with Tampa-based Gold Standard, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Southern Hospital Selects MedBoard™ (1/29/2010)
A progressive hospital that is part of a five-hospital system, has selected MedBoard™ as their hospital pharmacy Medication Tracking System. With MedBoard™, medications are tracked throughout the preparation, approval and delivery processes using wireless and tethered barcode scanners. Real-time data is then made available to pharmacy and nursing users through a secure, HIPAA-compliant website. MedBoard™ will enhance productivity and workflow efficiency by queuing and prioritizing orders to decrease calls to pharmacy and minimize lookups. In addition, MedBoard™ will reduce waste and re-work of orders while enhancing communication between nursing and pharmacy. Lastly, MedBoard™ will allow the pharmacy to demonstrate performance to improve and quantify delivery times while justifying staffing levels with the goal to ensure patient safety and accurate treatment according to prescribed schedules. The product was licensed under a relationship with Pharmacy OneSource.
Award-winning Maryland Hospital Implements Formulary Management from MedKeeper (1/15/2010)
A private non-profit hospital, and the sole Maryland hospital to receive HealthGrades 2010-2011 Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ selected MedKeeper’s FormChecker™ formulary management system. The MedKeeper Pharmacy Hub™ is a turnkey portal for hospital pharmacies. The hosted, web-based application integrates MedKeeper’s formulary management, interventions documentation, clinical documentation, drug information, sterile preparation quality assurance, and pharmacy communications modules into one interface. The product was licensed under a strategic relationship with Tampa-based Gold Standard, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Large Network Selects Formulary Management™, Clinical Measures™ and ez797™ from MedKeeper (1/1/2010)
A large network serving 6 states in the heartland has selected MedKeeper’s FormChecker™ formulary management system for use in its facilities. The MedKeeper Pharmacy Hub™ is a turnkey portal for hospital pharmacies. The hosted, web-based application integrates MedKeeper’s formulary management, interventions documentation, clinical documentation, drug information, sterile preparation quality assurance, and pharmacy communications modules into one interface. The product was licensed under a strategic relationship with Tampa-based Gold Standard, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Also implemented was MedKeeper’s Clinical Measures™. Clinical Measures™ is an easy-to-use system that documents cost savings, reports the value of pharmacy activities, and justifies staffing. Clinical Measures allows the client to quickly and efficiently track clinical interventions, activities, ADEs, medication errors, medication area inspections and more using only a Web browser or a handheld device. Once entered, the data can be reported in rich, graphical format, or downloaded to the database of your choice.
In addition, the networks selected ez797™ as an easy to use and flexible web-based application designed to support the sterile preparation and quality assurance activities of the hospital pharmacy. ez797™ helps pharmacy leaders with policy administration, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, safety, training and development. The application includes dynamic QA checklists, records compounding activities, and schedules and tracks staff training.
The product was licensed under a strategic relationship with Tampa-based Gold Standard, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Hospital serving the Southwest since 1865 Implements MedKeeper’s MedBoard™ (12/10/2009)
Serving 300,000 people, and part of a national system with 40 hospitals, has selected MedBoard™ as their hospital pharmacy Medication Tracking System. With MedBoard™, medications are tracked throughout the preparation, approval and delivery processes using wireless and tethered barcode scanners. Real-time data is then made available to pharmacy and nursing users through a secure, HIPAA-compliant website. MedBoard™ will enhance productivity and workflow efficiency by queuing and prioritizing orders to decrease calls to pharmacy and minimize lookups. In addition, MedBoard™ will reduce waste and re-work of orders while enhancing communication between nursing and pharmacy. Lastly, MedBoard™ will allow the pharmacy to demonstrate performance to improve and quantify delivery times while justifying staffing levels with the goal to ensure patient safety and accurate treatment according to prescribed schedules.
Pharmacy OneSource Acquires MedBoard Application from MedKeeper (11/2/09)
Bellevue, WA — Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software-as-a-service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, and MedKeeper, a leading provider of Web-based and handheld pharmacy tools, announced today Pharmacy OneSource’s acquisition of MedKeeper’s MedBoard product.
“Now more than ever, reducing waste is of top priority for our customers. We’re thrilled to present MedBoard as a proven model of reducing lost and wasted medications to help with their financial performance,” said Keith Streckenbach, Chief Strategy Officer of Pharmacy OneSource. “Together with our other applications, MedBoard strengthens Pharmacy OneSource’s commitment to swift and safe healthcare.”
MedBoard is a web-based Medication Tracking System that records and tracks preparation and delivery activities of orders throughout a hospital to reduce lost and missing meds that contribute to approximately $400 per bed per year of preventable waste.
MedBoard allows pharmacy and nursing to monitor delivery times which reduces calls to pharmacy and minimizes lookup time. By enhancing the workflow, MedBoard helps the pharmacy gain efficiency by queuing and prioritizing orders to reduce waste and re-work. Through robust reporting, MedBoard allows the pharmacy to demonstrate performance to administration and nursing.
“Pharmacy OneSource shares our passion for pharmacy excellence, and we feel confident that they are well-positioned to represent the MedBoard medication tracking system,” said Jason Kilgour, president and CEO of MedKeeper based in Westminster, Colorado. “Hospital pharmacies have been looking for something like this for years because the benefits run throughout the organization. Nurses can get their medications to patients more quickly and it reduces wasteful re-orders from communication breakdowns.”
Pharmacy OneSource will be responsible for the further development of MedBoard and its marketing, sales and full-service support. More information can be found at http://www.pharmacyonesource.com/medboard
About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is healthcare’s #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our more than 70 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to swift and safe healthcare through earlier, easier and better access to data. More than 1,300 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and UnitStock.
About MedKeeper (www.medkeeper.com)
Approximately 600 hospitals and 2,000 retail pharmacies use our hosted applications to promote patient safety, improve communications and ensure regulatory compliance. Our suite of secure, web-based applications provide organizations with low-cost, easy-to-use, solutions for: medication tracking, formulary management, pharmacist clinical documentation, adverse event and medication error reporting and sterile preparation quality assurance.
“Best Hospitals” Award Winner Selects MedKeeper’s Clinical Documentation Solution (10/30/2009)
MedKeeper announced today that one of the 2009 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” has licensed its clinical documentation and reporting system. The midwestern facility will use the system to record pharmacist interventions, adverse drug events, medication area inspections, and other activities. The agreement was executed under a strategic partnership with Gold Standard, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Rural Hospital Chooses Formchecker for Formulary Management (10/20/2009)
A rural 75-bed Wisconsin hospital – the only facility in a 45-mile radius – today selected MedKeeper’s formulary management system, FormChecker. As part of the agreement, the facility will access formulary information through seamless integration with Gold Standard Inc.’s Clinical Pharmacology drug information product.
Illinois Technology Leader Selects FormChecker Formulary Management System (10/20/2009)
A leading Chicago-area hospital, recognized nationally as a leader in technology, today licensed the FormChecker formulary management system. The 300+ bed hospital has been recognized for its paperless initiatives, and is one of only 42 hospitals to receive the HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation for its adoption of healthcare information technology. The agreement was executed by Gold Standard Inc., an Elsevier company.
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