In the past, when patient safety issues – such as contaminated tissue – stirred debate in local and national media, Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) would have struggled to quickly pull the data needed to reassure its patients that they had not been affected. Now, after abandoning paper records and implementing Horizon Tissue ManagerTM from McKesson, JMC can assure patients of their safety and keep pace with growing regulatory requirements.

1. Case Study
Jupiter Medical Center
At a Glance
Meets Heightened Tissue Regulatory
Organization
Requirements to Assure Patient Safety
Jupiter Medical Center In the past, when patient safety dollars and even expired tissue
Jupiter, Fla. issues – such as contaminated ending up in the OR.
– 169 beds tissue – stirred debate in local
– Not-for-profit and national media, Jupiter “When the father of a local OR
Medical Center (JMC) would nurse was about to undergo surgery
– Large orthopedics specialty have struggled to quickly pull the for a nonhealing wound,” recalls
data needed to reassure its Beth Suriano, director of surgical
Solution Spotlight patients that they had not been services at JMC, “the tissue came
– Clinical Procedure Resource affected. Now, after abandoning into the OR before the circulator
SolutionsTM paper records and implementing determined that it had expired.
Horizon Tissue ManagerTM from I knew things had to change.”
– Horizon Tissue ManagerTM McKesson, JMC can assure patients
of their safety and keep pace with Answers
Critical Issues growing regulatory requirements. JMC is a longtime user of
– Meeting expanded regulatory In fact, JMC maintains complete McKesson’s clinical and financial
requirements implant records and is fully solutions. When Suriano discovered
compliant with all regulations. Horizon Tissue Manager, a robust
– Identifying tissue expiration
yet simple software system, she
– Assuring patients of their safety Challenges knew she had the perfect solution.
JMC, a 169-bed, not-for-profit Horizon Tissue Manager is a
Results hospital in Jupiter, Fla., has a large component of McKesson’s Clincial
– Compliance for regulatory orthopedics specialty requiring Procedure Resource SolutionsTM,
audits a high-volume inventory of which create a more efficient
tissue implants. With The Joint workflow process to facilitate
– Proactive identification of tissue Commission and FDA expanding reliable delivery of resources – such
expiration the regulations and management as surgical trays and instruments,
– Accurate and complete tissue requirements of tissue, JMC tissue and device implants, medical
records needed to shed its manual scopes and mobile medical equipment
– Quick traceability of implant processes to comply. and carts – to front-line caregivers.
history and patient use
JMC’s manual processes included Horizon Tissue Manager guides
– Improved nursing productivity nurses recording tissue data in users to document information
– Tissue inventory expense savings loose-leaf notebooks that served required for regulatory compliance
as the implant log. With this throughout each step in the tissue
method of management, JMC management process. Additionally,
could not track its true tissue prompts and alerts notify staff if
utilization. Inventory was often required information is missing.
reordered when adequate stock JMC’s tissue records are now
was available. Additionally, the complete and ready for audits,
manual processes made tracking and ongoing quality assurance
tissue expirations difficult, which is easily achieved.
led to wasted inventory, lost

2. Case Study
“We can now confidently JMC uses Horizon Tissue Manager to and then leafing through its pages
manage tissue inventory proactively. to find the tissue record. With the
answer the question: ‘Is the With color-coded screens, alerts and integration of Horizon Tissue
item you implanted in me other tools to notify staff of item Manager and STAR®, McKesson’s
expiration, Horizon Tissue Manager hospital information system, dual
safe?’ With Horizon Tissue gives JMC the confidence of sound entry of patient information by
inventory. nursing staff is eliminated.
Manager, the answer is: Yes.”
JMC also benefits from the system’s JMC is looking forward to further
ability to identify soon-to-expire enhancing its tissue management
Beth Suriano inventory, which enables the process through the integration
medical center to return soon-to- between Horizon Tissue Manager
Director of Surgical Services expire consignment inventory and Horizon Surgical ManagerTM,
Jupiter Medical Center back to tissue banks or vendors McKesson’s surgical information
before expiration. system. Duplicate data entry will
be eliminated and workflow will
Suriano believes Horizon Tissue be streamlined by sharing tissue
Manager has saved JMC more than details during pre-, intra- and
$10,000 in the last year by either post-operative care. Additionally,
eliminating expired inventory or staff time will be saved through
reducing reordering of unnecessary the seamless flow of information.
inventory. “We have thousands of
items in the OR, and with our Results
manual processes we were never Horizon Tissue Manager boosted
sure that an item was even sitting JMC’s confidence in its ability to
in the freezer — let alone about to comply with all regulatory
expire,” says Suriano. “With Horizon requirements and successfully
Tissue Manager, everything we need complete The Joint Commission and
in regard to tissue implants – FDA audits. Nursing productivity
patient identification, implanting has improved due to the automated
physician, procurement facility, workflow and data capture. And
arrival and implant dates, expiration JMC is realizing significant annual
of bone – is at our fingertips.” savings in tissue inventory expense.
Most importantly, patient safety
Nurses, too, find the automated is improved.
system simplifies their daily
workflow. Horizon Tissue Manager Suriano says, “We can now
enables them to locate a tissue confidently answer the question:
record by scanning the tissue ‘Is the item you implanted in me
bar code versus manually locating safe?’ With Horizon Tissue Manager,
a binder stored in a file cabinet the answer is: Yes.”
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