St. Francis Medical Center 'Highly Recommends TrackCore'

“I have been the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the Tissue Implantation Program for the last 8 years. When I looked at TTC, I just knew it was exactly how I thought things should work. The TTC software allows us to print a unique bar-code label for each product, so our staff knows which one to scan when there are multiple barcode stickers. In addition, the training program was detailed and well planned after which I felt comfortable doing the training for the OR Staff, Wound Care Center and Blood Bank myself. The TTC Team has been great from start to finish and we have not had any problems. TTC alone does everything and is the only application we use for implant tracking! I can only say good things about TTC and would highly recommend them.”

Susan Sable MT (ASCP), SM, CIC
Laboratory Quality Assurance Coordinator
St. Francis Medical Center

Tissue TrackCore Releases New Integration Options Documents

In light of several successful new integrations between Tissue TrackCore and external medical information systems, the Tissue TrackCore training and implementation team has released new documents for both existing and potential customers.  These documents outline how Tissue TrackCore customers can leverage integration between Tissue TrackCore and their existing information systems to improve ROI, reduce errors in data entry and increase the speed at which tissue tracking compliance tasks are completed.

Tissue TrackCore's HL7 and Web Services integration systems along with their systems integration team offers the medical facility a lot of flexibility integrating their existing systems with Tissue TrackCore.  For more information on getting started with Tissue TrackCore integration visit the Integrations page on the Tissue TrackCore website at
http://www.tissuetrackcore.com/

Tissue TrackCore Successfully Integrates with McKesson’s Pathways Healthcare Scheduling

9/9/2008 – Through the use of secured web services, LPiTSolutions, Inc is successfully interfacing with McKesson’s Pathways Healthcare Scheduling (PHS) to ease data entry and improve accuracy in its tissue tracking software, Tissue TrackCore, aimed at assisting medical facilities in meeting Joint Commission standards for tracking allograft and autograft tissue.

In November 2007, LPiTSolutions introduced its Web Services Integration Platform (WSIP) into Tissue TrackCore, in order to provide medical facilities the ability to integrate their other information systems with TrackCore and to realize efficiencies in data entry. WSIP enables medical facilities to integrate a variety of systems that may or may not use HL7 as the standard format for transmitting data.

Additionally, in August of 2008, Tissue TrackCore introduced an HL7 interface as part of its offerings as well. This will allow hospitals with existing HL7 infrastructures, or who are looking to move to HL7, the ability to seamlessly integrate more of their systems with Tissue TrackCore.

Integrations, like the one with PHS, are resulting in the increased operational efficiencies through reduced keystrokes, improved data entry accuracy, and the elimination of redundantly entered data.

If you are a medical facility investigating tissue tracking compliance software, and are interested in operational efficiencies and data integration, be sure to talk to a Tissue TrackCore sales representative about utilizing Tissue TrackCore and WSIP or HL7. If you are an existing Tissue TrackCore user and want to further improve your operational efficiencies even more, call your account representative or our technical support line and ask about our web services and HL7 integration options.

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Joint Commission Posts Pre-Release of New 2009 Standards

The Joint Commission has recently posted pre-publication versions of the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and the 2009 Hospital Accreditation Requirements which includes a new chapter entitled Transplant Safety. The new publications contain a number of new items that may affect a hospital’s current practices regarding tissue and implant handling.

One of the important changes contained in the 2009 NPSG standard is entitled Universal Protocol (UP.01.01.01), and it addresses the pre-procedure verification process commonly referred to as the “Time Out”. The second Element of Performance for UP.01.01.01, found on page 25, reads:

“When the patient is in the pre-procedure area, immediately prior to moving the patient to the procedure room, a checklist (for example, paper, electronic, or other medium such as a wall-mounted white-board) is used to review and verify that the following items are available and accurately matched to the patient:

• Relevant documentation (for example, history and physical, nursing assessment, and pre-anesthesia assessment).
• Accurately completed, and signed, procedure consent form.
• Correct diagnostic and radiology test results (for example, radiology images and scans, or pathology and biopsy reports) that are properly labeled.
• Any required blood products, implants, devices and /or special equipment for the procedure.”

Tissue TrackCore allows hospitals to easily meet the requirement to review and verify that any needed implants/tissues are available. The holding room or circulating RN can use Tissue TrackCore’s patented Log Activity screen to do a simple search of active inventory for the implants or tissues that are needed for the procedure.

For complete text of the 2009 NPSG standard for hospital programs, see the manual chapter link at http://www.jointcommission.org/PatientSafety/NationalPatientSafetyGoals/09_hap_npsgs.htm.

The 2009 Hospital Accreditation Requirements now include a new Transplantation Safety chapter. This chapter contains requirements relating to organ and tissue handling. Formerly part of the Provision of Care, Treatment and Services chapter, these requirements are now contained within a separate chapter. In addition to the numbering changes, there have been some minor changes made to the text. A separate Transplant Safety chapter will result in much greater scrutiny of a hospital’s program, policies, and procedures relating to transplants and implants. For the full text see the Chapter link in the Transplant Safety section at http://www.jointcommission.org/Standards/SII/sii_hap.htm.

Medical facility administrators should be sure to review the complete standards in detail, in order to be prepared for when the standards are formally released. To find out more about how Tissue TrackCore can help your medical facility meet and exceed the current and the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and Hospital Accreditation Requirements, you can visit our website at www.tissuetrackcore.com, call a sales and account representative at 1.866.574.8765 or email us at sales@tissuetrackcore.com

Multiple IDNs Select Tissue TrackCore as Product of Choice for Tissue Tracking Compliance Software

The Tissue TrackCore platform is experiencing explosive growth in its user base as it is selected by multiple Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs). Recent agreements with IDNs including Catholic Healthcare West, Christus Health, Memorial Hermann and the Sisters of Charity Leavenworth have lead to immediate double digit growth in customer base including 18 facilities in the Christus Health System alone.

The number of hospitals joining IDNs and GPOs continues to grow as they seek to find more ways to cut costs and deliver affordable healthcare. As part of a larger group hospitals are able to negotiate better deals and standardized practices and technology across partner facilities. Tissue TrackCore’s affordable pricing, state of the art technology, singular product focus and thorough understanding of tissue and implant tracking compliance issues, makes it an attractive solution for IDNs, and their member facilities, looking for the lowest total cost of ownership.

“Tissue TrackCore continues to be evaluated side by side with competing products at the IDN level and has been selected in all of these competitive situations to date.” says John Post, President LPiT Solutions, Inc., the technology company behind Tissue TrackCore.

Tissue TrackCore is a web-based software product that provides surgical facilities a cost-effective way to easily track tissues in compliance with FDA and Joint Commission standards. Written specifically to address the Joint Commission’s tissue tracking standards that are applicable to hospitals and surgical centers (PC.17.10, PC.17.20, PC.17.30), and the standards that are applicable to labs (QC.5.300, QC.5.310, QC.5.320), Tissue TrackCore is very easy to use and ensures a high-rate of accuracy in tracking tissues and implants.

For information on how Tissue TrackCore can assist your IDN, GPO or medical facility in affordably meeting and exceeding Joint Commission and FDA tissue tracking compliance requirements, contact a sales and account management representative at sales@tissuetrackcore.com or by phone at 1.866.574.8765.

LPiT Solutions, Inc Releases Tissue TrackCore Update

LPiT Solutions, Inc Releases Tissue TrackCore Update

On Saturday, June 21^st, LPiT Solutions, Inc released the latest update to its market leading Tissue TrackCore software package that facilitates the tracking of tissue and implants in compliance with federal guidelines. User feedback, operational streamlining and enhanced data security were the driving forces behind the latest build.

The Tissue TrackCore team continues to draw on user input from regular contact with our customers in order to streamline the recording process and improve the quantity and quality of data that the users store. The team also looks to industry best practices and ongoing testing to find more ways to protect customer data without sacrificing system performance.

Some of the new and exciting changes that have been made include:

• Auto-lookup procedure names and materials used in implant procedures
• Print reports as encrypted PDFs
• Export more data to Microsoft Word and Excel
• Share and secure reports with other users
• Improved patient record lookup.
• Enhanced letter and report templates with multiple style and formatting options.
• On screen indicators for imported versus manually input data.
• Greater configuration options for the most frequently used screens
• Additional information associated to item types
• The ability to log the storage of frozen items that have been thawed.
• Archive your own data
• Simplification of security configuration
• Additional data sources and improved search capabilities in dynamic reporting.
• Increased integration capabilities
• Additional security enhancements to protect customer data.

For existing users, the full details about the changes are described in both the User Manual and from the dashboard which are available upon login or by contacting Tissue TrackCore support via email at softwaresupport@tissuetrackcore.com or by calling 1.866.LPITSOL (574.8765) and choosing option 2 for support.

Potential customers can find out more about all of Tissue TrackCore’s functionality and how it can help you meet and exceed federal guidelines for tracking tissue by contacting sales@tissuetrackcore.com or calling 1.866.LPITSOL (574.8765) and choosing option 1 for sales.

AORN Success for TissueTrackCore

LPiT Solutions would like to thank everyone who came to visit us this year at the 55th Annual AORN Congress. Special thanks to the 300+ attendees that spent the extra time to view the product overview in our booth. We enjoyed meeting and talking with all of you.

The national response to Tissue TrackCore has been phenomenal and we are excited about the continued growth of our customer base. In our continued commitment to our new and existing customers, we have surveyed our customer base and will be releasing more exciting new features into Tissue TrackCore in June.
Please be sure to call or email us if you would like to find out more about our product or wish to schedule a product demonstration.

Tissue TrackCore Successfully Integrates With ORIS Operating Room Information System

4/25/2008 – Through the use of secured web services, LPiTSolutions, Inc is successfully interfacing with ORIS (Operating Room Information System) to ease data entry and improve accuracy in its tissue tracking software aimed at assisting medical facilities in meeting Joint Commission standards for tracking allograft and autograft tissue.

In November 2007, LPiTSolutions introduced its Web Services Integration Platform (WSIP) into Tissue TrackCore, in order to provide medical facilities the ability to integrate their other information systems with TrackCore and to realize efficiencies in data entry. WSIP enables medical facilities to integrate a variety of systems that may or may not use HL7 as the standard format for transmitting data.

In February 2008, integration with ORIS was established and since then WSIP has processed over 200 transactions per day for each facility that is utilizing this integration capability. Integrations, like the one with ORIS, are resulting in the increased operational efficiencies through reduced keystrokes and the elimination of redundantly entered data.

If you are a medical facility investigating tissue tracking compliance software and are interested in operational efficiencies and data integration be sure to talk to a Tissue TrackCore sales representative about utilizing Tissue TrackCore and WSIP. If you are an existing Tissue TrackCore user and want to further improve your operational efficiencies even more call your account representative or our technical support line and ask about our web services integration.

Phone: 1.866.574.8765

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TrackCore a 'Rewarding Experience' - HCA Parham Doctors' Hospital

“We, Parham Doctors’ Hospital, a campus of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, went on line with TTC in September of 2008. The transition to the use of TTC has been a very rewarding experience. TTC has been there all the way in helping us ‘go live’. They have continued to help and are always available when questions come up. During the last three reviews that we have had with TJC or PPR surveyors, we always had an issue that was not up to standards. Because of TTC’s expertise and assistance, we had an outstanding review. The surveyor was very impressed that we had been ‘on line’ since September. She had suggestions that we might consider, such as sending physicians follow-up letters. She was very pleased to see that we were already doing this. Having this template in the TTC database makes this so much easier.

The staff have also adjusted to the documentation so much easier than they thought they would. Alan came down one day to help orient the staff and they said that his explanation of the system helped them so much. As a result, the tracking of tissue has become so much easier and, I feel, more complete.

I now feel that the safety of the patient receiving tissue has been upgraded to another level.”

Mary Doome, RN, ONC

Total Joint and Tissue Coordinator—Operating Room

HCA Parham Doctors’ Hospital

Richmond, VA

GroupCore Application to Replace Stay Involved Intranet

LPiT Solutions, officially announced today that GroupCore, part of its WebCore application, will replace its Stay Involved Intranet application in use by several member based organizations. Several existing Stay Involved users have already been converted to the new application and the remaining users will have the option to transition over time.

GroupCore provides a centralized place for member based organizations to manage and communicate with their members. Members as well as administrators are allowed to update pertinent personal information like contact info, interests and skills. Members are able to renew online, apply for jobs and register for events as well as post questions and information of interest. Administrators are able to bill the membership, manage user permissions, setup calendar events, broadcast emails, post jobs. Built on the LPiT Solutions CORE web platform, administrators are also able to communicate with current and potential members through mass emails and the complete management of all of the content on their website.

To find out more, visit LPiT Solutions on the web at http://www.blogger.com/

LPiT Solutions Proudly Announces Its Ongoing Support of The Independent Bank And Jaycees Grand Rapids Santa Parade

LPiT Solutions Proudly Announces Its Ongoing Support of The Independent Bank And Jaycees Grand Rapids Santa Parade
In 2007, LPiT Solutions was one of the primary sponsors and the sole provider of website services for The Independent Bank and Jaycees Santa Parade which has been a tradition in downtown Grand Rapids for more than 100 years. LPiT Solutions announced today that they will continue the sponsorship and webhosting in 2008 when the parade kicks off the holiday season on Saturday, November 22, 2008.
Visit the Santa Parade website at http://www.santaparadegr.com/ and LPiT Solutions at http://www.blogger.com/

HCA Richmond Health System Signs With Tissue Trackcore

The HCA Richmond Health System has signed with Tissue TrackCore to help meet the tissue tracking needs of all 6 of the facilities in the system.

Henrico Doctors Hospital (http://www.henricodoctors.com) will be the first facility in the system to implement Tissue TrackCore.

Visit the HCA Richmond Health System on the web at http://www.hcarichmond.com. 

Tissue TrackCore is a Tissue Tracking.com, LLC and LPiTsolutions, Inc product designed to help meet the specific patient safety issue of tracking tissue.

Rush University Medical Center 'Less Anxiety' during a Joint Commission Inspection

"...we had a 'mock' Joint Commission inspection and one of the first things they asked to see was our tissue tracking system. I was able to easily show how our tissues are document through log-in to implantation. The examiner seemed impressed with our system, taking notes, including getting the TrackCore name. I felt very confident with the organized information that I was able to provide. This will be one less anxiety when the actual Joint Commission inspection occurs."

Judith A. Berkshire, R.N.
Surgical Information Systems-Operating Room
Rush University Medical Center

LPiTsolutions To Sponsor 2008 AORN Congress

LPiTsolutions, a partner in Tissue Tracking.com, LLC, announced today that they will be one of the sponsors of the 2008 AORN Congress. Be sure to visit us at booth 900 in the exhibit hall.

The AORN Congress is attended by more than 6,800 perioperative professionals. This year the Congress is being held in Anaheim, California from March 30 through April 3rd, 2008. The Congress allows the perioperative profession to revitalize their passion for nursing and expand their skills. Outstanding education and events help them make valuable connections with their colleagues and industry partners. Visit the AORN Congress website at http://www.aorn.org.

This sponsorship makes a lot sense for both LPiTsolutions and the AORN Congress since LPiTsolutions is a partner in Tissue Tracking.com LLC, which is a group of healthcare and technology professionals, that developed software that provides hospitals and surgical facilities a cost-effective way to easily track tissue in compliance with FDA and Joint Commission (JCAHO) standards.

Tissue TrackCore offers the healthcare industry the only software application that allows facilities the ability to meet and exceed the The Joint Commission's (JCAHO) standards. The application allows for verification of package integrity, temperature range, and expiration date for every point of contact with each tissue. Reporting, source facilities, follow-ups, storage location temperature processing, and many other features are built into this integrated software application.

LPiT Solutions Releases More Functionality In Recent Software Update

LPiT Solutions is proud to announce that it has released a new update to its Tissue TrackCore tissue tracking solution. Combining user group feedback and customer needs analysis to drive the functionality behind this release, Tissue TrackCore has added even more new capabilities to its system.  These features include greater flexibility in how and what data is captured. 

Contact us at sales@tissuetrackcore.com to schedule a demonstration of our new functionality today.

Tissue TrackCore is a Tissue Tracking.com, LLC and LPiTsolutions, Inc product designed to help meet the specific patient safety issue of tracking tissue.