FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.,
Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BD
(Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global
medical technology company, will launch its latest advancement in
comprehensive medication management, BD HealthSight™ platform for
enterprise medication management, which offers a unique combination
of connective technologies, analytics and expert services at this
year's American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) 2017
Midyear Meeting being held in Orlando from Dec.
3-7.
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here:
https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8198551-bd-healthsight-platform-ashp-2017/
With direct medical costs associated with medication errors
reaching $21 billion worldwide,
innovative strategies must be developed to address the grand health
challenges associated with medication management.1 BD
has been evolving its focus to re-invent medication management with
integration of the company's technologies, analytics and expert
services that aim to close the communication gaps across disparate
solutions. The BD HealthSight platform connects systems and
processes to help hospitals and health systems drive a safer, more
efficient medication management process.
"The BD HealthSight platform is a response to the evolving
challenges hospitals and health systems face as they work to
address the complex, systemic issues associated with medication
management across their enterprise," said Ranjeet Banerjee, worldwide president of
Medication Management Solutions for BD. "The BD HealthSight
platform creates an ecosystem that unifies BD's leading
technologies, such as BD Pyxis™ dispensing and BD
Alaris™ infusion solutions — with each other and with
the hospital's EMR provider — while also integrating advanced data
and analytics with supporting practice improvement services backed
by clinical experts to help optimize the entire medication
management process."
With prescription expenditure in clinics and hospitals soaring
to $63.7 billion last year alone (an
11.9 percent increase from 2015)2 hospitals and health
systems require a tailored, multidisciplinary approach to
medication management that will enable full visibility of their
facility's medications at all times. The BD HealthSight platform
introduces four primary capabilities to help improve medication
visibility and safety while reducing cost across the continuum of
care:
- Advanced Analytics: In order to achieve a safer,
more efficient medication process, hospitals and health systems
need visibility into critical data points that can help drive
clinical decision making for improved outcomes. With the BD
HealthSight platform and its suite of advanced analytic solutions,
hospitals and health systems receive actionable data including
comparative benchmarking and medication inventory optimization
through a single portal to help improve safety and efficiency.
- Practice Improvement: A comprehensive medication
management system can achieve optimal performance when users have
access to professional services and support that can help them
adopt and optimize their technology investments. The
BD HealthSight platform enables a broad range of education and
practice improvement services to provide hospitals and health
systems with access to BD tools, resources and services to help
optimize their medication management process in an effort to
improve outcomes.
- Workflow Applications: Smart, practical tools help
create more efficient and responsive medication management
workflows from central pharmacy to the patient bedside. The BD
HealthSight platform and its collection of applications can create
customized dashboards to help guide decision making by prioritizing
workflows that improve pharmacy response to critical medication
needs on the patient floor, such as the replenishment of continuous
infusions and centralized management of medication formularies that
can reduce the manual maintenance of these databases.
- Common Infrastructure: The BD HealthSight platform's
standardized technical infrastructure enables centralized
enterprise-wide reporting across all BD products and seamless
connectivity between BD Pyxis and BD Alaris technologies as well as
with the hospital's EMR. This approach also delivers enhanced
product security and advanced tools to help simplify and streamline
implementation and ongoing support.
With the goal of operational excellence and patient safety,
Ochsner Medical Center engaged with BD as an early adopter of the
BD HealthSight practice improvement services and analytics. "We
have accomplished impressive optimization results in just six
months. The new approach will not only revolutionize the way we
function at Ochsner and across other health systems, but also
revolutionize how we work to continuously improve operations and
outcomes with inventory optimization analytics and services," said
Neil Hunter, Assistant
Director-Pharmacy Operations at Ochsner Medical Center.
To hear from more hospitals and health systems visit
bd.com/healthsight. To register for any of the BD-sponsored
activities at ASHP, please visit bd.com/ashp2017 and be sure to
visit BD at ASHP, Booth #721 and follow us on Twitter @BDandCo.
About BD
BD is a global medical technology company
that is advancing the world of health by improving medical
discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. BD leads in
patient and health care worker safety and the technologies that
enable medical research and clinical laboratories. The company
provides innovative solutions that help advance medical research
and genomics, enhance the diagnosis of infectious disease and
cancer, improve medication management, promote infection
prevention, equip surgical and interventional procedures, and
support the management of diabetes. The company partners with
organizations around the world to address some of the most
challenging global health issues. BD has nearly 50,000 associates
across 50 countries who work in close collaboration with customers
and partners to help enhance outcomes, lower health care delivery
costs, increase efficiencies, improve health care safety and expand
access to health. For more information on BD, please visit
bd.com.
1 New England Health Institute. Preventing medication
errors: a $21 billion opportunity.
www.nehi.net/bendthecurve/sup/documents/Medication_Errors_%20Brief.pdf.
Accessed Oct. 10, 2017
2 American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
National trends in prescription drug expenditures and projections
for 2017. Vol. 74; Number 15. August
2017; 1158-1173. Accessed Oct. 16,
2017
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