unSUMMIT 2008 Conference - Austin, TX - April 30, 2008 – Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., a market leader in laboratory information systems, today announced it will be demonstrating its Barcode Point-of-Care (POC) specimen collection management solution at the unSUMMIT 2008 Conference in Austin, TX this April 30th through May 2nd 200. The Sunquest Collection Manager integrates with Sunquest’s award-winning Laboratory Information System (LIS) and generates real-time transmissions of all laboratory orders, including stats, directly to the wireless handheld device, enabling accurate and timely collection of specimens. Utilizing barcode technology at the bedside ensures positive patient ID and allows organizations to save time and dramatically reduce errors by automating their processes for specimen collection, specimen labeling, and data entry.
“The impact of medication administration errors has been very prevalent due to increased coverage in the media and popular press,” says Mike Wisz, president of Mike Wisz and Associates, a leading healthcare technology consulting firm. “Healthcare leaders recognize that errors in laboratory specimen identification are just as unconscionable. Sunquest is an industry leader in point-of-care laboratory specimen labeling systems, and its participation strengthens the unSUMMIT conference and reflects the importance of laboratory safety in bedside barcoding.”
“Sunquest is committed to providing hospital laboratories, nursing staff, and emergency department personnel with the most advanced wireless barcode tools and bedside solutions available to help them improve patient safety at their sites,” said Kelly A. Feist, vice president of marketing for Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. “We have customers collecting more than twenty-five thousand specimens per month over a period of years with Collection Manager, and report virtually no errors attributed to a wrong patient ID or labeling error.”
About Sunquest Collection Manager
Sunquest Collection Manager generates real-time transmissions of all laboratory orders, including stats, directly to the phlebotomists’ handheld device while they are on their collection rounds. This improves turnaround time (TAT) by reducing the time it takes to collect specimens, delivering faster results to the doctors, and enabling a corresponding acceleration of patient treatment. With positive patient identification and specimen labeling done at the bedside, patient data is immediately received by the LIS which saves additional time from data entry, eliminating many steps where errors might occur.
Sunquest Collection Manager Key Features
• Improve turnaround times with wireless communications to a variety of devices
• Print labels at bedside, even for tubes collected before orders are placed as used in emergency rooms and trauma units
• Reduce or eliminate mislabeled phlebotomy specimens
• Migration to .net technology, making the application Windows platform agnostic
• Scanner independent
• Scan any patient or print temporary labels for “draw and hold” requests
• Logging errors in LIS
• Usage control for mobile devices
About unSUMMIT
The unSUMMIT is an unconventional approach to provider education with an agenda geared toward senior and mid-level health-system managers responsible for applying automation for a safer medication-use process. It is equally relevant to large integrated healthcare networks and small community hospitals. Past attendees report getting the most out of the event by bringing interdisciplinary teams representing administration, pharmacy, nursing, IT, and quality. More information is available at: http://www.unsummit.com/
unSUMMIT Educational Topics will include:
• The role of RFID in point-of-care safety
• Uniting smart-infusion devices with BPOC
• Automated charge capture
• Specimen identification & transfusion verification
• Designing workflow to eliminate work-arounds
• BPOC in alternate care areas
About Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., is a global market leader in clinical data management solutions with more than 1,200 hospitals and commercial laboratories using its products worldwide. The company is dedicated to providing best-of-breed solutions that enable quality patient care, clinical safety, and operational efficiencies. Its experienced sales and technical service teams deliver 24x7 assistance to customers for their procurement, implementation, and customer care needs. The Sunquest Laboratory™ system achieved "Best in KLAS" in the Laboratory Segment for 2007, which was its fourth consecutive year, (KLAS Enterprises, LLC, www.healthcomputing.com.)
Sunquest’s professional services division provides a wide array of management and technical tools, including lab redesign and optimization, outreach and lab network program development, and operational business and implementation plans. For more information, call 800-748-0692 or visit: www.sunquestinfo.com.