Medication solution

In its ongoing pursuit to deliver the best quality of care to its patients, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital (PIH), a 444-bed acute care facility has activated Eclipsys’ Sunrise Pharmacy medication solution. By replacing paper processes with a centralized pharmacy information system, PIH also initiated a system-wide electronic medication record (eMAR) to support enhanced communication, speed and accuracy in dispensing patient medications. The implementation marks a critical step towards a closed loop medication process and builds upon the community hospital’s successful adoption of Eclipsys’ computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution last year. With 300 active physician users, PIH cites CPOE adoption rates of approximately 99 percent. (Dr. Alan Endo, PIH’s director of Pharmacy.)