Washington County Hospital Selects Pharmacy OneSource to Improve Pharmacy Performance

July 31, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News
Bellevue, Wash. — Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,000 hospitals in the United States, announced today that Washington County Hospital has adopted Quantifi, Sentri7, ScheduleRx and UnitStock. Washington County Hospital is using Pharmacy OneSource’s suite of products to improve pharmacy performance.

“We are very excited about the whole portfolio and the impact it will have upon our workflow,” said Christopher Virgilio, Pharm.D., Clinical Coordinator at Washington County Hospital.

Sentri7 helps Washington County Hospital by linking their pharmacy, laboratory and medication systems to identify opportunities for pharmacist intervention. Pharmacists will create customized clinical rules for the hospital and avoid risk through early detection of adverse events and drug reactions.

Tied together with Sentri7, Quantifi will allow Washington County Hospital to document their clinical interventions, adverse events and adverse drug reactions quickly over the internet or on a handheld computer, collecting crucial event data easily across the entire hospital.

“We are very excited that the Washington County Hospital has chosen Pharmacy OneSource,” said Keith Streckenbach, MBA, Executive Vice President of Pharmacy OneSource. “As a portfolio partner, Washington County Hospital multiplies their workflow and patient safety benefits of our software services and provides themselves with the best return on investment.”

UnitStock is a documentation and reporting application that will assist Washington County Hospital in meeting the Joint Commission standards for storage of medications in nursing units, clinics, and operating rooms.

Washington County Hospital can easily schedule its pharmacy staff within minutes using ScheduleRx, which features web-based shift changes and vacation requests.

About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is pharmacy's #1 documentation and formulary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our nearly 50 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-system pharmacy worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to high performance pharmacy through better outcomes, lower costs and system-wide results. More than 1,000 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and UnitStock.

About Washington County Hospital (www.washingtoncountyhospital.com)
The Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care hospital located in Hagerstown, Maryland and serves the residents of western Maryland, southern Pennsylvania, and the panhandle of West Virginia. The Hospital currently offers acute general hospital inpatient services including adult medical and surgical care, obstetrics and newborn care, including a family birthing center, cardiac catheterizations, comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation, radiology and diagnostic services, inpatient and outpatient mental health services, a regional Level III Trauma Center, an intensive care unit, a progressive care unit, a coronary care unit, and a pediatric unit.