MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Omnicell, Inc., (NASDAQ:OMCL) is proud to support the
creation of the Medication Management Council, a thought leadership
initiative comprised of industry, pharmacy and nursing
professionals from health care provider organizations and academic
institutions. The Council will publish three best practice lists
focused on safety, compliance and efficiency to demonstrate its
commitment to improving medication management to help ensure better
patient outcomes. The first list, "The Top Ten Safety Best
Practices," outlines the priorities related to safe medication
management in the hospital, and can be found here.
The Top Ten Safety Best Practices list addresses medication
safety standards, boils down hundreds of available guidelines, and
suggests the base-level criteria that should be met for improving
patient safety. Industry regulatory bodies are continuously
publishing lengthy, sometimes complex, guidelines for safer
medication management. Rather than create more content, the Council
sought to distill the plethora of information into a list that
hospitals and health systems can use to quickly assess which
aspects of their medication management practices they need to
improve upon and which areas may be missing altogether.
By creating a way for hospitals to easily access best practices
for medication management, the Council hopes to improve error-prone
medication management processes across the industry, leading to
better outcomes for health care stakeholders.
"It is great to see Omnicell continue to assume a leadership
role in addressing patient safety and supporting pharmacists and
technicians in providing quality patient care and service," shares
Stephen J. Allen, MS, FASHP, chief
executive officer, ASHP Foundation. "The Top Ten Safety Best
Practices developed by the Omnicell Medication Management Council
is a prime example of its commitment to the pharmacy practitioners
who must lead the inter-professional medication-use
process."
"While working as a DOP, I noticed that people often got lost in
the interpretation and overabundance of safety guidelines," said
Sara White, former president of
ASHP, who is a Council member. "Rather than overwhelm health
professionals with more guidelines and policies, the best practices
lists are designed to pare medication management into manageable
terms. We identified high-priority items that are not in place
everywhere, so these are areas where organizations are still
vulnerable."
About Omnicell
Since 1992, Omnicell (NASDAQ: OMCL) has been creating new
efficiencies to improve patient care, anywhere it is delivered.
Omnicell is a leading supplier of comprehensive automation and
business analytics software for patient-centric medication and
supply management across the entire health care continuum—from the
acute care hospital setting to post-acute skilled nursing and
long-term care facilities to the home.
More than 3,000 customers worldwide have utilized Omnicell
Automation and Analytics solutions to increase operational
efficiency, reduce errors, deliver actionable intelligence and
improve patient safety. Omnicell Medication Adherence solutions,
including its MTS Medication Technologies brand, provide innovative
medication adherence packaging solutions to help reduce costly
hospital readmissions. In addition, these solutions enable
approximately 6,000 institutional and retail pharmacies worldwide
to maintain high accuracy and quality standards in medication
dispensing and administration while optimizing productivity and
controlling costs.
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www.omnicell.com.
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