MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Feb 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMCL) today announced that Inova, a
not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia, will incorporate the
Omnicell® Performance CenterTM, an integrated
software and services offering designed to drive improved
pharmacy operations and reduce costs, while supporting patient
safety.
As health systems face increased drug spending and industry
consolidation, hospital leaders are looking for tools that help
optimize visibility across their system, enabling them to be more
strategic in their medication ordering and distribution decisions.
Performance Center offers a new model, the first of its kind for
the industry, to advance more efficient pharmacy operations,
helping customers to meet regulatory requirements and ultimately
improve patient outcomes. Early customers of the Performance Center
are saving an average of two percent of their medication spend each
year.
"Our desire is to achieve enterprise-wide management of our
pharmacy operations," commented Melanie
Massiah-White, Inova executive director, chief pharmacy
officer. "This includes shared inventory visibility, inventory
optimization through relocation of needed medications, and
leveraging strategic buying opportunities. We look forward to
working with Omnicell to achieve these goals."
Performance Center leverages advanced supply chain capabilities
to reduce costs and improve enterprise-wide management of one of
the health system's largest cost centers. Benefits of the
integrated software and services offering include:
- Proactive monitoring of enterprise medication data by a team of
experts with the goal of identifying actionable inventory
optimization opportunities
- Ability to view and act on medication inventory demand in real
time at every level of the health system
- Mitigation planning for drug shortage and expired medication
risk
- Automation of workflow processes for centralized medication
distribution
- Delivery of pharmacy scorecard for tracking progress against
optimization and cost reduction goals
- Regulatory compliance with 340B and CSOS regulations
"Through long-term partnerships with our customers, Performance
Center is a unique approach that allows us to develop and implement
incremental, yet impactful changes that will help drive down costs
while freeing up critical resources, helping to contribute to
positive patient outcomes," said Nhat H.
Ngo, executive vice president, Strategy and Business
Development at Omnicell.
About Inova
Inova is a global leader in
personalized health, which leverages precision medicine to predict,
prevent and treat disease, enabling individuals to live longer,
healthier lives. Inova serves more than 2 million people each year
from throughout the Washington,
DC, metro area and beyond, shaping the future of health
through an integrated network of hospitals, primary and specialty
care practices, emergency and urgent care centers, outpatient
services and destination institutes. For more information,
visit inova.org.
About Omnicell
Since 1992, Omnicell
(NASDAQ: OMCL) has been inspired to create safer and more
efficient ways to manage medications and supplies across all care
settings. As a leader in medication and supply dispensing
automation, central pharmacy automation, IV robotics, analytics
software, and medication adherence and packaging systems, Omnicell
is focused on improving care across the entire healthcare
continuum-from the acute care hospital setting, to post-acute
skilled nursing and long-term care facilities, to the patient's
home.
Over 4,000 customers worldwide use Omnicell® automation and
analytics solutions to increase operational efficiency, reduce
medication errors, deliver actionable intelligence and improve
patient safety.
Omnicell's innovative medication adherence solutions, used by
over 32,000 institutional and retail pharmacies in North
America and the United Kingdom, are designed to improve
patient adherence to prescriptions, helping to reduce costly
hospital readmissions.
Recent Omnicell acquisitions, including Ateb, add distinct
capabilities, particularly in central pharmacy, IV robotics, and
pharmacy software, creating the broadest medication management
product portfolio in the industry.
For more information about Omnicell, Inc. please
visit www.omnicell.com.
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