CareFusion Announces New Technologies To Advance Interoperability With Health Care Information Systems
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Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:42:01 AM
CareFusion Announces New Technologies To Advance Interoperability With Health Care Information Systems
New Alaris® infusion technologies to be featured at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, booth #2855
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CareFusion today announced new Alaris® infusion technologies, connectivity services and analytics offerings to improve interoperability with health care information technology (HIT) systems and help health care providers increase efficiency and deliver better patient care.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100706/CAREFUSIONLOGO)
The new solutions from CareFusion include three applications in its Alaris Connectivity Services portfolio, part of the CareFusion Coordination Engine, to enable clinicians to pre-populate infusion parameters, automate infusion documentation and better manage their fleet of infusion pumps. The company also announced new data, analytics and reporting capabilities to support clinical workflows through its Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, Knowledge Portal for infusion technology and a mobile-ready version of its Knowledge Portal for ventilation therapy.
These new technologies join a broad offering of CareFusion solutions that benefit pharmacy, nursing, respiratory therapy, quality and information technology (IT) departments by:
-- Enabling a safer, more efficient workflow for medication management and
administration;
-- Equipping health care providers with real-time and retrospective data
and analytics to improve clinical practice and workflows; and,
-- Advancing interoperability between CareFusion's medical systems and HIT
providers to enable more accurate and timely documentation of clinical
therapies into hospitals' electronic medical records (EMRs).
"In today's evolving health care landscape, interoperability between devices and information systems is among our customers' most critical priorities," said Tom Leonard, president of Medical Systems at CareFusion. "As a leader in critical care devices for acute care hospitals, CareFusion is uniquely able to equip customers with actionable information that helps bridge the gap between medical devices and a hospital's HIT system. Armed with these insights, hospitals have the information they need to drive workflow efficiencies and improve clinical practice."
The three new applications on the Alaris Connectivity Services platform, which enables hospitals to enhance infusion safety, workflow and quality through wireless interoperability between the company's Alaris Connectivity Gateway, HIT systems and EMRs, include:
-- Infusion Parameter Pre-population, helping to improve patient safety and
reduce medication administration errors by enabling pharmacists to
remotely program IV medication orders on the Alaris® System. This
application reduces the number of manual steps required to program an
infusion order, helping to improve clinician workflow and reduce the
risk of harmful and costly IV medication programming errors at the
patient's bedside.
-- Infusion Documentation, automating IV medication administration
documentation from the Alaris System to the patient's EMR, equipping
health care providers with more timely and accurate infusion data to aid
in clinical decision-making.
-- Asset Management, helping hospitals automate equipment inventory
management by providing online visibility to the location, status and
availability of each Alaris System within a facility. This application
is integrated with a Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location System from
AeroScout, a global market leader in Enterprise Visibility solutions for
health care and other industries.
Both the Infusion Parameter Pre-population and Asset Management applications are in limited market release and are anticipated to be commercially available in the coming months.
CareFusion also announced the Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, a Web-based dashboard that displays Alaris infusion data from around the hospital or health system and provides near real-time* status of infusions administered through the Alaris System. Using the Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, pharmacists can make timely, informed decisions to improve pharmacy workflow and medication management specific to infusion preparation and management.
In addition, the company recently expanded its CareFusion Knowledge Portal platform beyond its offering for Pyxis® dispensing technologies to include ventilation therapy and infusion technologies:
-- The Knowledge Portal for ventilation therapy is an analytics and
reporting tool that measures clinical and process variability in
ventilator therapy and provides clinicians and management actionable
information to help improve patient care. The reporting capabilities,
accessible from any Web-enabled device, focus on ventilator weaning and
notifications on important patient trends to measure compliance with or
variance from best practices.
-- The Knowledge Portal for infusion technologies is a Web-based analytics
and reporting tool pharmacists and clinicians can use to access
retrospective infusion device data. These insights can help health care
providers develop safer medication practices, improve clinical practice
and increase infusion workflow efficiency.
"These technologies are among more than 10 innovative new products CareFusion has announced in the past three months," added Leonard. "At the same time, we continue to develop and strengthen our partnerships with HIT providers to further promote interoperability. These combined efforts reflect our ongoing commitment to bring to market solutions that help meet our customers' evolving needs to increase safety, improve efficiency and lower operating costs."
Other recently announced CareFusion technologies featured this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in booth #2855 include:
-- CareFusion Coordination Engine, a single, fault tolerant interface
engine for CareFusion products connected to a hospital's network. This
solution enables both hospitals and health systems to significantly
reduce the number of interface connections that a customer needs to
create and maintain for multiple dispensing systems, infusion pumps and
ventilators within their facilities, simplifying the ability to
integrate with a hospital's EMR.
-- Pyxis Enterprise System (ES) platform, the company's next-generation
automated dispensing platform that provides flexible, enterprise-ready
solutions for centralized system management across a health system.
Notable product releases on the platform are the Pyxis® Enterprise
Server and Pyxis MedStation® ES system, which help streamline workflow
processes across IT, pharmacy and nursing to enable safer medication
management and increased cost control.
-- Interoperability between Pyxis medication and supply technologies and
HIT systems, helping hospitals improve nursing and pharmacy productivity
by minimizing redundant processes, documentation and disruptions and
enabling caregivers to automatically capture and manage patient data to
help improve patient care, workflow efficiency and financial
performance.
-- CareFusion Ventilation System, which combines its industry-leading
AVEA®, VELA® and EnVE(TM) ventilators with interoperability and
analytics software to better address the clinical and operational
challenges and costly variances in patient care. The software includes
the CareFusion Respiratory Documentation Application, a handheld,
positive patient ID application that automates the collection of
ventilator documentation data at the point of care, and then wirelessly
transmits it to a hospital's EMR system to more accurately and
efficiently document the patient's therapy.
About CareFusion
CareFusion (NYSE: CFN) is a global corporation serving the health care industry with products and services that help hospitals measurably improve the safety and quality of care. The company develops market-leading technologies including Alaris® infusion pumps, Pyxis® automated dispensing and patient identification systems, AVEA®, AirLife(TM) and LTV® series ventilation and respiratory products, ChloraPrep® skin prep products, MedMined® services for data mining surveillance, Nicolet(TM) neurological monitoring and diagnostic products, V. Mueller® surgical instruments, and an extensive line of products that support interventional medicine. CareFusion employs more than 14,000 people across its global operations. More information may be found at http://www.carefusion.com.
*Subject to internet connection and devices variability.
SOURCE CareFusion
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100706/CAREFUSIONLOGO
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CareFusion
CONTACT: media, Kristen Cardillo, +1-858-617-2317, kristen.cardillo@carefusion.com, or investors, Jim Mazzola, +1-858-617-1203, jim.mazzola@carefusion.com, both of CareFusion
Web Site: http://www.himssconference.org
New Alaris® infusion technologies to be featured at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, booth #2855
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CareFusion today announced new Alaris® infusion technologies, connectivity services and analytics offerings to improve interoperability with health care information technology (HIT) systems and help health care providers increase efficiency and deliver better patient care.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100706/CAREFUSIONLOGO)
The new solutions from CareFusion include three applications in its Alaris Connectivity Services portfolio, part of the CareFusion Coordination Engine, to enable clinicians to pre-populate infusion parameters, automate infusion documentation and better manage their fleet of infusion pumps. The company also announced new data, analytics and reporting capabilities to support clinical workflows through its Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, Knowledge Portal for infusion technology and a mobile-ready version of its Knowledge Portal for ventilation therapy.
These new technologies join a broad offering of CareFusion solutions that benefit pharmacy, nursing, respiratory therapy, quality and information technology (IT) departments by:
-- Enabling a safer, more efficient workflow for medication management and
administration;
-- Equipping health care providers with real-time and retrospective data
and analytics to improve clinical practice and workflows; and,
-- Advancing interoperability between CareFusion's medical systems and HIT
providers to enable more accurate and timely documentation of clinical
therapies into hospitals' electronic medical records (EMRs).
"In today's evolving health care landscape, interoperability between devices and information systems is among our customers' most critical priorities," said Tom Leonard, president of Medical Systems at CareFusion. "As a leader in critical care devices for acute care hospitals, CareFusion is uniquely able to equip customers with actionable information that helps bridge the gap between medical devices and a hospital's HIT system. Armed with these insights, hospitals have the information they need to drive workflow efficiencies and improve clinical practice."
The three new applications on the Alaris Connectivity Services platform, which enables hospitals to enhance infusion safety, workflow and quality through wireless interoperability between the company's Alaris Connectivity Gateway, HIT systems and EMRs, include:
-- Infusion Parameter Pre-population, helping to improve patient safety and
reduce medication administration errors by enabling pharmacists to
remotely program IV medication orders on the Alaris® System. This
application reduces the number of manual steps required to program an
infusion order, helping to improve clinician workflow and reduce the
risk of harmful and costly IV medication programming errors at the
patient's bedside.
-- Infusion Documentation, automating IV medication administration
documentation from the Alaris System to the patient's EMR, equipping
health care providers with more timely and accurate infusion data to aid
in clinical decision-making.
-- Asset Management, helping hospitals automate equipment inventory
management by providing online visibility to the location, status and
availability of each Alaris System within a facility. This application
is integrated with a Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location System from
AeroScout, a global market leader in Enterprise Visibility solutions for
health care and other industries.
Both the Infusion Parameter Pre-population and Asset Management applications are in limited market release and are anticipated to be commercially available in the coming months.
CareFusion also announced the Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, a Web-based dashboard that displays Alaris infusion data from around the hospital or health system and provides near real-time* status of infusions administered through the Alaris System. Using the Alaris Infusion Viewer for Pharmacy Logistics, pharmacists can make timely, informed decisions to improve pharmacy workflow and medication management specific to infusion preparation and management.
In addition, the company recently expanded its CareFusion Knowledge Portal platform beyond its offering for Pyxis® dispensing technologies to include ventilation therapy and infusion technologies:
-- The Knowledge Portal for ventilation therapy is an analytics and
reporting tool that measures clinical and process variability in
ventilator therapy and provides clinicians and management actionable
information to help improve patient care. The reporting capabilities,
accessible from any Web-enabled device, focus on ventilator weaning and
notifications on important patient trends to measure compliance with or
variance from best practices.
-- The Knowledge Portal for infusion technologies is a Web-based analytics
and reporting tool pharmacists and clinicians can use to access
retrospective infusion device data. These insights can help health care
providers develop safer medication practices, improve clinical practice
and increase infusion workflow efficiency.
"These technologies are among more than 10 innovative new products CareFusion has announced in the past three months," added Leonard. "At the same time, we continue to develop and strengthen our partnerships with HIT providers to further promote interoperability. These combined efforts reflect our ongoing commitment to bring to market solutions that help meet our customers' evolving needs to increase safety, improve efficiency and lower operating costs."
Other recently announced CareFusion technologies featured this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in booth #2855 include:
-- CareFusion Coordination Engine, a single, fault tolerant interface
engine for CareFusion products connected to a hospital's network. This
solution enables both hospitals and health systems to significantly
reduce the number of interface connections that a customer needs to
create and maintain for multiple dispensing systems, infusion pumps and
ventilators within their facilities, simplifying the ability to
integrate with a hospital's EMR.
-- Pyxis Enterprise System (ES) platform, the company's next-generation
automated dispensing platform that provides flexible, enterprise-ready
solutions for centralized system management across a health system.
Notable product releases on the platform are the Pyxis® Enterprise
Server and Pyxis MedStation® ES system, which help streamline workflow
processes across IT, pharmacy and nursing to enable safer medication
management and increased cost control.
-- Interoperability between Pyxis medication and supply technologies and
HIT systems, helping hospitals improve nursing and pharmacy productivity
by minimizing redundant processes, documentation and disruptions and
enabling caregivers to automatically capture and manage patient data to
help improve patient care, workflow efficiency and financial
performance.
-- CareFusion Ventilation System, which combines its industry-leading
AVEA®, VELA® and EnVE(TM) ventilators with interoperability and
analytics software to better address the clinical and operational
challenges and costly variances in patient care. The software includes
the CareFusion Respiratory Documentation Application, a handheld,
positive patient ID application that automates the collection of
ventilator documentation data at the point of care, and then wirelessly
transmits it to a hospital's EMR system to more accurately and
efficiently document the patient's therapy.
About CareFusion
CareFusion (NYSE: CFN) is a global corporation serving the health care industry with products and services that help hospitals measurably improve the safety and quality of care. The company develops market-leading technologies including Alaris® infusion pumps, Pyxis® automated dispensing and patient identification systems, AVEA®, AirLife(TM) and LTV® series ventilation and respiratory products, ChloraPrep® skin prep products, MedMined® services for data mining surveillance, Nicolet(TM) neurological monitoring and diagnostic products, V. Mueller® surgical instruments, and an extensive line of products that support interventional medicine. CareFusion employs more than 14,000 people across its global operations. More information may be found at http://www.carefusion.com.
*Subject to internet connection and devices variability.
SOURCE CareFusion
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100706/CAREFUSIONLOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CareFusion
CONTACT: media, Kristen Cardillo, +1-858-617-2317, kristen.cardillo@carefusion.com, or investors, Jim Mazzola, +1-858-617-1203, jim.mazzola@carefusion.com, both of CareFusion
Web Site: http://www.himssconference.org