Citizens Baptist Medical Center Adopts Sentri7 and Simplifi 797 to Improve Hospital Efficiency
Bellevue, WA -- Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced today that Citizens Baptist Medical Center has adopted Sentri7 electronic surveillance and Simplifi 797 quality assurance software to improve efficiency in clinical workflows. With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access to patient demographics; lab and radiology results; and medication, surgery and nursing records... data that currently reside in different systems. Clinicians can write rules against the data to identify and flag at-risk patients. "We have seen a tremendous improvement in efficiencies with our pharmacists since implementing Sentri7," said Lee Ann Cain, Director of Pharmacy at Citizens Baptist Medical Center. "The pharmacists are able to address real-time issues when they are notified via the dashboard versus waiting on the paper reports to print out daily. We are also able to work through the issues without wading through useless data to get to the data that we need to make decisions." Sentri7 can help the hospital comply with national standards and core measures set by the government and hospital accreditation bodies. For example, the program can flag patients that may have had a heart attack and check to ensure they are taking aspirin, beta blockers or other preventative treatment required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It can also monitor patient on anticoagulants for the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal 3. "We are a small rural hospital and our pharmacists wear many hats... so to be able to make sound clinical decisions by using a tool like Sentri7 is a true asset to this facility," said Cain. "We monitor anticoagulation, antibiotic use and appropriateness, core measures ...

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