Rockingham Memorial Adopts Simplifi 797 to Achieve USP 797 Compliance
Software gives hospital staff expert resources for following requirements
BELLEVUE, WA, August 21, 2010
Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced today that Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, VA, has adopted Simplifi 797 quality assurance software to achieve sterile compounding compliance.Simplifi 797 can help simplify meeting all of the requirements of the U.S. Pharmacopeia's Chapter 797 best practice guidelines for compounding sites throughout the facility.
"Rockingham Memorial Hospital is committed to patient safety," said John Lubkowski, Pharmacy Operations Manager at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. "Compliance with USP Chapter 797 helps us to ensure the sterile products prepared in our main pharmacy and oncology satellite meet our high standards."
Simplifi 797 is a web-based application that automates, integrates and streamlines quality activities and documentation. Simplifi 797 manages task scheduling for environmental monitoring and automates the reporting of exceptions and compliance.
"Through Quality assurance, employee competencies and environmental monitoring, I know we are meeting all guidelines," said Lubkowski. "Our hospital moved into a new facility in June 2010 and we knew that we would need guidance to fully meet USP 797 guidelines. Simplifi 797 provided us with the expertise that we were looking for."
About Rockingham Memorial Hospital (www.rmhonline.com)
Rockingham Memorial Hospital, located in Harrisonburg, VA, is an independent community hospital that has been providing healthcare services since 1912. Serving a seven-county area with a population of close to 200,000, the 238-bed hospital admits more than 15,500 inpatients annually and delivers close to 1,750 babies per year. RMH averages more than 18,000 surgical procedures annually. The RMH Hahn Cancer Center offers both chemotherapy and radiation therapy and provides more than 16,000 cancer treatments per year. The RMH Emergency Department treats more than 70,000 patients per year.
About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is healthcare's #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our more than 80 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to swift and safe healthcare through earlier, easier and better access to data. More than 1,300 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, MedBoard, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and VeriForm.