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Riverview Psychiatric Center Subscribes to Advanced Technology for Patient Safety
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Added: 01/26/2005
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Riverview Psychiatric Center Subscribes to Advanced Technology for Patient Safety
Lewiston, Maine January 26, 2005 – Riverview Psychiatric Center subscribed to Saferating’s Paperless Form technology for its two ambulatory clinics in Augusta and Portland, Maine. Staff now has instant web access for secure recording the receipt of sample medications received from pharmaceutical sales representatives. Regulations from both state and JCAHO require that if samples are utilized for patient care, then a method to log incoming samples must be kept. The required documentation must include lot and expiration dates for the sample drugs. Furthermore, upon dispensing the samples, the outgoing samples must be labeled by a licensed prescriber with the information typically supplied by a retail pharmacy.
RPS staff will now utilize Saferating’s PFT and a custom form to log incoming samples, and a second form which will supply staff with both a label-like document and a documented note for the patient’s medical record. Administrators will have secure access to databases for tracking and real time access in the event of a drug recall. Follow-up and analysis will utilize Saferating’s powerful query engine and report generator to enhance its system improvement and contribute to compliance with HIPAA and JCAHO standards.
Because Saferating’s PFT forms are intuitive, yet thorough, it is expected that this new technology will save extensive labor hours and the associated costs. Riverview Psychiatric Center is proud to take this step in patient safety, reporting enhancement, and cost containment. Learn more at www.Saferating.com
About Saferating Inc
A leader in Paperless Form Technology solutions for the healthcare industry, Saferating.com provides HIPPA compliant applications to document and report clinical activity. Saferating has developed other solutions for meeting JCAHO requirements for reporting of Adverse Drug Reaction, Medication Errors, Anticoagulation Medication Tracking, Incident Reporting, Patient Satisfaction Surveys, and Competency Assessment. saferating.com’s solutions improve patient care, reduce costs by eliminated paper-based forms, and eliminated redundant data entry. Saferating.com is based in Lewiston Maine. For more information, please visit www.Saferating.com
About Riverview Psychiatric Center
RPC (formerly Augusta Mental Health Institute). In 1834 the Maine Legislature passed a resolve to establish the Maine Insane Hospital and appropriated $20,000 for this purpose.
The hospital was built across the river from the Capitol building. The reason for this was so that the Governor and the Legislature would never forget the hospital. Today the State of Maine has built a 92-bed civil and forensic psychiatric treatment facility to replace the existing 161-year-old state hospital, the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI). The new facility opened in late 2004. The new facility, Riverview Psychiatric Center, offers a state-of-the-art treatment environment that supports healing, respect, and safety.
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