Sentri7 Customers Far Outperform Other U.S. Hospitals in Core Measure Improvements
Hospitals using Sentri7 electronic surveillance improve scores up to 34% compared to 0.7% national average

BELLEVUE, WA, October 10, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Sentri7, a clinical decision support system, has enabled numerous hospitals and health systems across the country to make great strides in improving patient safety with medication-related issues in multiple hospital departments.

With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access to lab results, medication records and patient demographics, data that previously resided in different systems. Clinicians can write rules against the data to identify opportunities for intervention and optimize medication use.

For example, Sentri7 can find patients that may have had a heart attack or heart failure and check to ensure they are taking aspirin, beta blockers or other preventative treatment required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality measures.

"We were having trouble with core measures in educating congestive heart failure patients because they were being admitted with different complaints," said Steve Bethea, Pharmacy Director at University of South Alabama Medical Center. "Sentri7 is able to query for patients on medications that would typically be prescribed for a CHF patient. We can then verify with the physician whether or not the patient has CHF, and if so, we will provide the education and document the activity in the patient's medical record."

According to the most recently updated Hospital Compare data, the average score change across all hospitals reporting quality measures was 0.711%, with the highest average increase of 2.79% for measure PN-7, Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination.

Meanwhile, Sentri7 customers showed improvements as high as 16 to 34% on measure PN-7. The system identifies patients with a pneumonia diagnosis and checks their medication history to see if they've had a flu shot. Using this process The UMass Memorial Medical Center improved their score by 26%.

"Sentri7 has improved our ability to proactively identify core measure compliance issues where medications are involved," said Christian Hartman, PharmD, MBA Medication Safety Officer at The UMass Memorial Medical Center. "Sentri7 generates lists of patients that require our immediate attention so we can focus our efforts and improve our publicly reported compliance rates."

More information about Sentri7 can be found at http://www.sentri7.com.

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