Mercy Medical Center Implements Quantifi for Improved Patient Care Decisions
Web-based software tool will help hospital track pharmacy activities

BELLEVUE, WA, January 22, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced today that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids has implemented Quantifi to establish benchmarks and trending of clinical and quality pharmacy activities.

"Quantifi has given Mercy Medical Center an accurate and consistent manner in which to report and track pharmacist interventions," said Desmond Waters, Director of Pharmacy at Mercy Medical Center. "It also gives our pharmacy robust reporting in order to make real-time, informative patient care decisions."

Quantifi allows Mercy pharmacists to document their clinical interventions, adverse events and adverse drug reactions quickly over the internet or on a handheld computer through a series of menus, drop-lists, and input screens, collecting crucial event data easily. Quantifi users then have the ability to follow-up on their reports or the reports done by their peers. Mercy Medical Center administrators can easily generate executive level reports and detailed managerial reports to support clinical and quality improvement activities.

Pharmacy OneSource currently has 32,314 users documenting interventions, medication errors and ADRs in Quantifi, and they recorded together more than $112 million in cost savings in the fourth quarter of 2008.

About Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids (www.mercycare.org)
For more than 108 years, Mercy Medical Center has delivered The Mercy Touch by partnering the latest technology with compassionate and high-quality patient care. Mercy is a fully-accredited 445 licensed-bed regional hospital. Founded in 1900 by the Sisters of Mercy, today it offers a wide range of patient services, including state-of-the art cancer care delivered at the American College of Surgeons (ACoS)-accredited Mercy Regional Cancer Center. Additional strengths include surgical services, emergency services, cardiac care, critical care services, women's services and obstetrics. Mercy is the only hospital in the eastern Iowa Corridor to offer all-private acute patient rooms.

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