Omnicell OptiFlex CL Automates Cath Lab Supply Tracking at St. Patrick Hospital
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MISSOULA, Mont., July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Omnicell, Inc. a leading provider of system solutions to acute healthcare facilities, and St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, a 237 bed facility in Missoula, Montana, today announced the successful installation of an interface between the hospital's Omnicell OptiFlex(TM) CL system and its Philips Series IV physiomonitoring and information system.
"The OptiFlex CL system automates our supply reorder process, giving us greater control and accuracy in ordering to ensure that supplies are always on hand," said Steve Hartigan, lead cath lab technician at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center. "In addition, we benefit from a reduction in manual work that frees our staff to spend more time on patient-specific care."
St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center has been using the OptiFlex CL system in its cardiac cath labs to facilitate real-time automated supply point-of-use data collection. The powerful OptiFlex CL software seamlessly interfaces with the Philips cath lab monitoring and charting software, further reducing the need for manual key entries and automatically populating its American College of Cardiology database with accurate supply information. The complete integrated system made possible by OptiFlex CL software allows cath lab management staff to evaluate the overall performance of the hospital on cardiac cath lab cases by tracking supplies and procedures to a physician for cost management and automated charge capture.
"Tracking supplies in hospital specialty areas like the cath lab at St. Patrick is increasingly tied to patient safety and clinical processes," said Robert Mullenger, group product line manager, Omnicell. "A cath lab manager benefits from the OptiFlex system because it provides one solution to track all supplies accurately, including implants; and provides interfaces to hospital systems that they depend on."
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About Omnicell
Omnicell, Inc. is a leading provider of systems targeting patient safety and operational efficiency in healthcare facilities. Since 1992, Omnicell has worked to enhance patient safety and allow clinicians to spend more time with their patients.
Omnicell's medication-use product line includes solutions for the central pharmacy, nursing unit, operating room, and patient bedside. Solutions range from complete automation systems for the central pharmacy to nursing unit and bedside dispensing cabinet systems. From the point at which a medication arrives at the receiving dock to the time it is administered, Omnicell systems store it, package it, bar code it, order it, issue it, and provide information and controls on its use and reorder.
Our supply product lines provide a healthcare institution with tools to obtain faster, more effective control of costs, capture of charges for payer reimbursement, and timely reordering of supplies. Products range from high-security closed-cabinet systems and software to open-shelf and combination solutions in the nursing unit, cath lab and operating room. For more information, visit http://www.omnicell.com.
About St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center
St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center is a medical center under the sponsorship of Providence Health & Services. A not-for-profit health system committed to providing a comprehensive array of services to meet the needs of communities across five states, including Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California.
Providence Health & Services includes 26 hospitals, more than 35 non-acute facilities, physician clinics, a health plan, a liberal arts university, a high school, approximately 45,000 employees and numerous other health, housing and educational services. The system office is located in Seattle, Washington.
Providence Health & Services in Alaska, Washington, Montana and Oregon are sponsored by the Sisters of Providence religious community.
St. Patrick Hospital is a 237 licensed hospital bed facility in Missoula, Montana with a 17 county service area. St. Patrick Hospital is recognized for excellence in patient care in such areas as cancer, heart, neuroscience, orthopedics, women's health and rehabilitation services.
CONTACT: Deborah Reinert of Omnicell, Inc., +1-650-251-6403,
deborah.reinert@omnicell.com; or Linda Capcara of LVA Communications,
+1-480-229-7090, linda@lva.com, for Omnicell, Inc.
Web site: http://www.omnicell.com/