Huntsville Hospital Boosts Clinical Productivity 300% with Sentri7

Online, January 20, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Bellevue, Wash. - Huntsville Hospital has joined the growing list of hospitals that have implemented Sentri7, a system that allows hospital-based clinicians to cross reference patients' health information with the medication patients are receiving to ensure optimal care.

With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access to lab results, medication records and patient demographics, data that currently reside in different systems. Clinicians can write rules against the data to identify and flag at-risk patients.

Michael McDaniel, R.Ph., MBA, FASHP, Director of Pharmacy Services at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama had long known of the value of using a rules-driven, automated process to ferret out opportunities for his pharmacists to profitably, effectively and proactively get involved in the daily clinical management of his patients' medication therapy.

In all three large hospitals that Michael had served as Director of Pharmacy he had driven the development of an in-house clinical rules engine to generate daily reports of clinical intervention opportunities for his staff.

This opportunity-sorting process, in its third iteration at Huntsville Hospital was called PhRED (Pharmacy Rules Evaluation Database). On a daily basis at 7:30 a.m., PhRED printed out over 600 opportunities for enhancing patient care. However, the system had his limits. It only ran once per day, everything came out on paper, and documentation of successfully implemented recommendations was difficult and time consuming to capture.

The solution to these problems was adding Sentri7 to the mix of resources used by Huntsville Hospital's Department of Pharmacy. Sentri7 allowed a smooth transition of PhRED's value into a process that provided clinical opportunity notification in real time, online (less paper to chase), provided much more supporting documentation, and greatly facilitated pharmacist documentation of the outcome of each rule within Quantifi.

"This transition meant less wasted effort by the pharmacists since some of the opportunities PhRED presented each morning were almost 24 hours old, and thus too late to capitalize on," McDaniel said. "Sentri7's opportunities are as fresh as can be."

After a short implementation time, and short interval for training and orientation for the pharmacists, Sentri7 went live in September 2009. In short order Huntsville Hospital saw its clinical productivity improve by as much as 300%, with a conservatively documented financial ROI of more than $100,000 per month.

"Added to our recent staff expansion, the transition from PhRED to Sentri7 allowed an overall ROI on our total investment of more than 120%," said McDaniel.

For more information visit www.sentri7.com.

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About Huntsville Hospital (www.huntsvillehospital.org)
Huntsville Hospital is north Alabama's oldest and largest medical center. It is the only regional referral center in north Alabama between Nashville and Birmingham and one of the largest, not-for-profit, community owned hospitals in the country.