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1. Customer Spotlight
Somerset Hospital Closes Loop
In Medication-Use Process
Overview labor. There’s a lot of re-work. It’s repetitive
work, so there’s the potential for people
The 120-bed Somerset Hospital services to lose focus, which increases the risk for
primarily a rural constituency in southern dispensing errors.”
Pennsylvania.
Continued Russic, “We didn’t want to go
Customer Spotlight One of the first customers of the Paragon® with all cabinets; there was limited space
community hospital information system, on the nursing units, plus we had limited
Somerset Hospital Somerset regularly installed new Paragon medication storage space in the pharmacy.
Somerset, PA modules soon after their availability to Also, when you put everything into cabinets,
www.somersethospital.com support pharmacy and clinical systems. you’re really taking the dispensing function
away from the pharmacy and putting the
The organization’s strategic plan called burden on the nurse.”
Solution Spotlight for moving to electronic health records
– PROmanager-Rx™ within five years. All that changed with the Answers
HITECH (Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health) Act. “The Their search for an automated, bar-code-
news of available stimulus funds changed driven dispensing solution for the central
our time horizon,” said chief information pharmacy led them to the PROmanager-Rx™
officer Jonathan Bauer. “Working with system. PROmanager-Rx is the only solution
McKesson, we condensed our timeline to just that enables hospitals to fully automate the
22 months. Overall, we plan to be at the first dispensing, storage, and restocking of tablets,
stage of ‘meaningful use’ by fall 2011.” capsules, and other oral solid medications
that come pre-packaged from drug manu-
Challenges facturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form. The
combination of manufacturer packaging,
With plans for computerized physician order bar-code scanning of every dose, and sophis-
entry and bar-code medication administration ticated software makes PROmanager-Rx the
in place, Somerset turned its attention to the safest automated pharmacy system available.
pharmacy. “We addressed the prescribing, In addition to the highest levels of safety, the
transcribing, administration, and monitoring system also reduces the packaging burden
process, but not the dispensing portion of the inside the hospital, saving both pharmacy
medication-use process,” said Bauer. “We labor and costs.
were looking for a solution that closed the
loop by automating dispensing and improving Explained Russic, “PROmanager-Rx is the
accuracy and efficiency.” right choice for us because it will automate
about 80 percent of our daily cart fill,
Medication dispensing at Somerset is a easily fits into our pharmacy layout, and is
manual process. The pharmacy performs a affordable. With PROmanager-Rx, we will be
24-hour cart fill, delivering approximately able to fill directly to the nurse servers, which
600-800 scheduled medications to nurse is important to us. We want to keep the
servers located in patient rooms. For PRNs, nurse in the room with the patient.”
some first doses, and narcotics, nurses access
automated medication dispensing cabinets. The pharmacy plans to bar-code package
and manually dispense non-oral solid
“The manual cart fill is one of the most medications—liquids, vials, patches,
inefficient processes in our department,” ampoules, etc., which will be the minority
said Michele Russic, director of pharmacy. of the daily dispensing volume once
“It requires a lot of pharmacist and technician PROmanager-Rx is installed.
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