Becton, Dickinson and Company will launch its latest advancement in comprehensive medication management, BD HealthSight platform for enterprise medication management, which offers a unique combination of connective technologies, analytics and expert services at this year’s ASHP 2017 Midyear Meeting.
New BD HealthSight™ Platform for Enterprise Medication Management Takes System-Wide Approach to Make Medication Management Safer, Simpler and Smarter |
[16-November-2017] |
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Becton, Dickinson and Company, a leading global medical technology company, will launch its latest advancement in comprehensive medication management, BD HealthSight™ platform for enterprise medication management, which offers a unique combination of connective technologies, analytics and expert services at this year’s American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) 2017 Midyear Meeting being held in Orlando from Dec. 3-7. Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8198551-bd-healthsight-platform-ashp-2017/ With direct medical costs associated with medication errors reaching $21 billion worldwide, innovative strategies must be developed to address the grand health challenges associated with medication management.1 BD has been evolving its focus to re-invent medication management with integration of the company’s technologies, analytics and expert services that aim to close the communication gaps across disparate solutions. The BD HealthSight platform connects systems and processes to help hospitals and health systems drive a safer, more efficient medication management process. “The BD HealthSight platform is a response to the evolving challenges hospitals and health systems face as they work to address the complex, systemic issues associated with medication management across their enterprise,” said Ranjeet Banerjee, worldwide president of Medication Management Solutions for BD. “The BD HealthSight platform creates an ecosystem that unifies BD’s leading technologies, such as BD Pyxis™ dispensing and BD Alaris™ infusion solutions -- with each other and with the hospital’s EMR provider -- while also integrating advanced data and analytics with supporting practice improvement services backed by clinical experts to help optimize the entire medication management process.” With prescription expenditure in clinics and hospitals soaring to $63.7 billion last year alone (an 11.9 percent increase from 2015)2 hospitals and health systems require a tailored, multidisciplinary approach to medication management that will enable full visibility of their facility’s medications at all times. The BD HealthSight platform introduces four primary capabilities to help improve medication visibility and safety while reducing cost across the continuum of care:
With the goal of operational excellence and patient safety, Ochsner Medical Center engaged with BD as an early adopter of the BD HealthSight practice improvement services and analytics. “We have accomplished impressive optimization results in just six months. The new approach will not only revolutionize the way we function at Ochsner and across other health systems, but also revolutionize how we work to continuously improve operations and outcomes with inventory optimization analytics and services,” said Neil Hunter, Assistant Director-Pharmacy Operations at Ochsner Medical Center. To hear from more hospitals and health systems visit bd.com/healthsight. To register for any of the BD-sponsored activities at ASHP, please visit bd.com/ashp2017 and be sure to visit BD at ASHP, Booth #721 and follow us on Twitter @BDandCo. About BD 1 New England Health Institute. Preventing medication errors: a $21 billion opportunity. www.nehi.net/bendthecurve/sup/documents/Medication_Errors_%20Brief.pdf. Accessed Oct. 10, 2017 2 American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. National trends in prescription drug expenditures and projections for 2017. Vol. 74; Number 15. August 2017; 1158-1173. Accessed Oct. 16, 2017
Contacts: Matt Coppola Monique N. Dolecki BD Public Relations BD Investor Relations 201.847.7370 201.847.5378 matthew_r_coppola@bd.com monique_dolecki@bd.com
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