North Mississippi Health Services Selects RASMAS for Automated Product Recall Management

June 18, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News
North Mississippi Health Services has entered a contract with Noblis to use its web-based Risk And Safety Management Alert System (RASMAS) service.

RASMAS is a comprehensive service that notifies hospitals about recalls and safety notices for healthcare products that may be harmful to their patients, employees, and hospital visitors. Its workflow tools help staff track, manage, and record all actions taken in dealing with the medical recalls and alerts in their facilities.

Subscribers report that using RASMAS reduces alert processing time by 80% and dramatically decreases the number of days from notification to removal of products from use. Such time-saving efforts ensure that patients in facilities continue to receive the highest quality of healthcare delivery possible.

"Implementing an automated process for managing medical recalls and safety notices has numerous benefits for our hospitals," states Mac Stanford, Director of Biomedical Engineering for North Mississippi Health Services. "Receiving electronic alerts from RASMAS on a real-time basis in a standardized format will take an immediate burden off of our hospital staff and represents a giant step forward for patient safety."

About North Mississippi Health Services
North Mississippi Health Services is a diversified regional health care organization, which serves 22 counties in north Mississippi and northwest Alabama from headquarters in Tupelo, Miss. NMHS works to achieve its corporate mission to improve the health of the people of this region by providing conveniently accessible, cost-effective health care of the highest quality.

About Noblis
RASMAS was developed by Noblis (formerly Mitretek Systems) a nonprofit organization with one great purpose: to use the best of science, technology and strategy for the best of reasons – to ensure a better quality of life. Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Noblis employs nearly 800 accomplished scientists, analysts, engineers, researchers, technology specialists and management experts in offices throughout the U.S.

Noblis is widely recognized as a “Great Place to Work,” by many organizations including the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in cooperation with The Great Place to Work Institute, AARP and Washingtonian magazine.

For more information about Noblis: noblis.org
For more information about RASMAS: http://rasmas.noblis.org | 877-727-6276