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Table of Contents
Best Practices
Diversion Central—Providing Valuable Resources to Keep Your Hospital Safe.......................................................................................................................... 2
Customer Spotlight
Allina Health Consolidates 20 Sites on a Single Server...............................................................................................................................................................3
Clinical Focus
Clinical Study Demonstrates Improvement in Time to First Dose for Antibiotics.......................................................................................................................... 4
Supply Chain
Are You Ready to Track UDI?......................................................................................................................................................................................................6
Product Update
Highlights of Omnicell 19.5 Software Release.............................................................................................................................................................................7
Post-Acute Care
Importance of Medication Adherence on Population Health Management.................................................................................................................................. 9
Announcements
Spotlight on Omnicell Blog.........................................................................................................................................................................................................10
Reminder About Product End of Life Notice...............................................................................................................................................................................10
Get Recommendations for Upgrading Your Pharmacy.............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Omnicell Mobile Truck Tour 2015—Driving the Future II............................................................................................................................................................ 11
Events
Upcoming conferences, training classes, and more...................................................................................................................................................................12
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Best Practices
Tips and techniques to help you work smarter.
Diversion Central—Providing
Valuable Resources to Keep
Your Hospital Safe
Drug diversion is a serious issue that’s more prevalent
than most care to admit.
• 1 in 10 health care practitioners will abuse
drugs at some point.1
• A hospital was fined $2 million after a DEA
investigation showed security and record-keeping
breaches contributed to large scale theft of
hydrocodone.2
• 30,000 patients were put at risk during four
infectious disease outbreaks caused by drug Webinars
diversion incidents.3 Access to upcoming and past webinars presented by a leading
national expert on diversion prevention is also available on
While it’s easier to think “it could never happen at my facility,” you Diversion Central. Most webinars feature both a link to the
could be compromising the well-being of both your patients and recording and slides that can be downloaded for future reference.
staff by not addressing it. In addition, diversion can create
enormous legal liabilities for your organization. There will always be some staff who seek to divert drugs. Visit
Diversion Central and let Omnicell provide you with the tools to set
That’s why Omnicell is proud to share with you our new website up an effective detection and prevention program, so you can
www.DiversionCentral.com. Diversion Central offers a plethora reduce the risks to your patients and your institution.
of information and free educational resources to help you take
control of drug diversion, including:
Diversion: Your Guide to Identification and Prevention How Omnicell Products Support
This compendium, which contains a selection of articles authored
by pharmacy professionals about diversion, was published in
Diversion Prevention
Pharmacy Purchasing & Products. Find out how your peers are As a leading provider of medication and supply automation
tackling drug diversion, and get ideas for addressing the problem systems, Omnicell provides a number of ways to help keep
at your institution. controlled substances secure. Following are a few examples:
• Automated dispensing cabinets include drawers with metal
Top Ten Ways Drug Diverters Make Medications Disappear bins and lids to help prevent tampering.
This eBook reveals the most common methods health care • Anesthesia Workstation secures medications in the OR.
workers use to divert medications. You will also learn ways to
detect and prevent each method, so you are better able to curb • Pandora® analytics provides a more efficient approach
to diversion detection that can help you identify potential
diversion at your health care facility.
diversion sooner compared with poring over multiple
Blog Posts cabinet reports.
On the website you will find links to our series of posts about • Controlled Substance Manager provides a closed-loop
drug diversion on Omnicell’s blog, Transform Healthcare. This system of tracking narcotics from receipt to distribution
series features posts about how diversion can endanger both in the nursing units and returns back to pharmacy.
patients and staff, how to spot diverters and the tricks they use
to steal medication, and what to do when diversion is suspected.
Many articles are guest-authored by recognized experts in the 1
Eisler P. Doctors, medical staff on drugs put patients at risk. USA Today, April 15, 2014.
field and Omnicell customers who have robust diversion 2
Press release from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, July 26, 2007, accessed at
programs in place at their institutions. http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/chicago072607.html.
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Schaefer MK, Perz JF. Outbreaks of infections associated with drug diversion by US
health care personnel. Mayo Clin Proc. 2014;89(7):878-887.
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Customer Spotlight
Trends in technology
Easier to Add New Sites “Our pharmacy team is experienced managing operations across
our numerous and varied sites,” said Ann Byre, PharmD, the
The Omnicell medication dispensing system will soon be installed
Director of Pharmacy Services at Allina Health. “With good
in an additional Allina Health site. The new cabinets can be
teamwork between Pharmacy, Nursing, IS and Omnicell, we were
connected to the existing server.
able to establish best practices and achieve the intended benefits
More Efficient Software Upgrades of the Unity platform.”
Server work involved in upgrading to a new version of Omnicell
software might have stretched out over a couple months for 20
sites, but instead was recently accomplished in a single evening. Interested in Server Consolidation?
The OmniCenter server can now connect up to 1,000 different
More Consistent User Experience
devices (automated dispensing cabinets, Anesthesia Workstation,
Protocols and procedures pertaining to cabinet use have been Savvy™ mobile medication workstation, etc.), enabling it to scale to
standardized (some tailoring was done to meet specific site needs), a wide range of hospitals and health systems. If you’re interested in
so a clinician who works at multiple Allina Health facilities will find embarking on the consolidation process, please connect with your
it easier to use the cabinets at each site. The same user ID can Omnicell sales and field operations representatives.
be used at each site.
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Clinical Focus
Discover new workflow to improve patient care.
Clinical Study Demonstrates current time to administration. The results went beyond their
expectations:
Improvement in Time to First
• 40% reduction in time to first dose for piperacillin-tazobactum
Dose for Antibiotics
• 13.3% reduction in scheduled time to administration time for
Omnicell Technology Promotes Nurse Efficiency all IV antibiotics
As a renowned teaching center and Magnet hospital, Hackensack Fewer Missing Doses
University Medical Center (UMC) is continually working to improve The study also looked at the prevalence of missing doses, as
its medication distribution processes. When replacing an older indicated by in-basket messages from nursing to pharmacy, which
automated medication dispensing system with the Omnicell Unity are captured in the electronic medical record. Results showed a
platform, pharmacy leadership embarked on a study to determine if 17.6% reduction of these in-basket messages.
the new technology—and related workflow enhancements—would
improve efficiency of the medication administration process. How Were the Improvements Achieved?
Specifically, Hackensack UMC sought to measure the difference in Under the previous automated dispensing system, IV antibiotics
time to first dose for piperacillin-tazobactam, a time-critical IV were prepared and labeled in the pharmacy, and then delivered to
antibiotic, as well as time to administration for scheduled doses of the unit. As many clinicians can attest, this process often results
all IV antibiotics—compared with their previous system. Missing in delays, errors, and missing doses.
doses and nurse satisfaction with the new dispensing system were The Omnicell system enabled a completely new workflow, as
also measured. indicated in the diagram below. The IV antibiotics can now be
Hackensack UMC was already meeting the CMS guideline for stocked in the cabinets due to the integrated Medication Label
administering time-critical medications within a 30-minute time Printer. As nurses remove IV bags from the cabinet, they print
frame, but the researchers anticipated shaving 10% off their a patient-specific label to apply to the medication.
Before After
(IV medication is delivered by pharmacy) (IV medication is stocked in the cabinet)
Pharmacy pulls the IV medication from stock Nurses confirm availability at the cabinet or remotely
and prepares and labels the medication in the EHR
The labeled IV medication is then transported Nurses retrieve and label doses at the cabinet and
to the nursing unit then administer to patients
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Clinical Focus
Discover new workflow to improve patient care.
• A system for remotely queuing medications shortens time spent The results of the study were presented by Hackensack UMC at
at the cabinet. the New Jersey Society of Health-System Pharmacists annual
meeting on April 24, 2015.
• A single-dose dispensing module virtually eliminates the need to
conduct countbacks of controlled substances.
In addition, Hackensack UMC also deployed interoperability Learn more about the study
between the Omnicell and Epic systems, which allows nurses to
• Download a pdf of the study poster
manage medications within the electronic health record (EHR).
• October 8 at ANCC National Magnet Conference:
Nurse Satisfaction Dr. Claudia Douglas, Administrative Director, Institute for Evidence
As part of the study, 122 nurses were surveyed at two different Based Practice and Nursing Research, at Hackensack UMC,
time points about their experiences with the Omnicell medication will discuss the study results in detail at a hosted dinner event.
To request more information or reserve a space, click here.
dispensing system compared to the previous system deployed at
Hackensack UMC. Results showed statistically significant
improvement in nurse satisfaction regarding many workflow
factors, including efficiency of medication administration related
to the new system.
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Supply Chain
Solve inventory management challenges.
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Nagreha N, Parmar M. Study of medical device recalls by FDA over last four years (2008-2011). Applied Clinical Trials Online. Sept. 20, 2011
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Product Update
Find out what’s new at Omnicell.
Default screens:
• To speed workflow, default screens are based on device type
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Product Update
Find out what’s new at Omnicell.
View this Anywhere RN video to learn more about the interface. • Data marker visibility is now a toggled option
Integration with Codonics Safe Label System: Controlled Substance Manager (CSM)
• Codonics® Safe Label System® SLS 500i® improves medication Metal door:
safety and labeling compliance
• New option for a metal door on the cabinet instead of acrylic
• Single sign-on/sign-off—Simultaneously provides/restricts
• Provides greater security and keeps controlled substances
access to both systems
out of view
• Single scan—Scanning item on SLS sends data to Anesthesia
Open shelf/cabinet hybrid environment:
Workstation: a safety label is printed, inventory is decremented,
and charges are captured • Items that don’t fit inside the cabinet can now be managed
through the CSM workstation for seamless inventory
management
• Bar code check after items have been picked and sorted ensures
the right items are being distributed accurately
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Enhancements available with WorkflowRx software release 8.0
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Enhancements available with OmniLinkRx software release 6.0
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Post-Acute Care
Addressing medication adherence.
Addressing Non-Adherence
Hilsenroth recommends putting together a comprehensive
adherence platform from a menu of adherence-aiding solutions
(see sidebar).
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Announcements
Brief news items to keep you informed.
Drug Diversion
This comprehensive ten-part series begins with Drug Diversion
101: What You Need to Know and ends with How to Develop a
Proactive Drug Diversion Program. In-between you’ll find posts
about how to spot diverters, what tricks they use to steal
medication, and what to do when diversion is suspected.
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Announcements
Brief news items to keep you informed.
Click here to try it. We hope you enjoy building your own
pharmacy!
Omnicell Mobile Truck Tour Due to the positive feedback we received from our visitors in 2014,
we’re continuing our trek across the United States and Canada.
2015—Driving the Future II Clinicians can come aboard our semi-trailer truck, experience
Omnicell products firsthand, and speak with our knowledgeable
personnel.
Omnicell is excited to once again
present the opportunity for hospital “Driving the Future II” will run through November and showcase
staff to join us in our mobile products and technology that touch the full continuum of care.
demonstration room and get Please contact your Omnicell representative to learn more.
hands-on experience with our latest
medication and supply automation .
systems from the convenience of
the the hospital parking lot.
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Events
Upcoming conferences, training classes, and more.
New Omnicell Subscription Training Offerings • 19.0 Patient Care in a Non-Profiled Environment
Are you ready to optimize your pharmacy inventory system? • 19.0 Restock Training for Color Touch
Check out these new Omnicell subscription training courses:
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