Medical City Dallas Hospital Staff Response 'Very Positive'

"After we ‘went live’ with TrackCore, our staff response has been very positive. I have been impressed with your software from the first time I saw a demonstration! I am amazed at the ease of use and intuitiveness. The TrackCore process is very easy to navigate. From receiving an item, to adding vendors and users, TrackCore makes tissue tracking painless.

I cannot express how happy we are that we have implemented TrackCore at Medical City Dallas.

Thank-you for such a great product!"

Jane M. Smith, RN, CNOR
Orthopedic Supervisor, OR
Medical City Dallas Hospital

LPIT Solutions, Inc. Partners with Lawson Software

LPIT Solutions, Inc. (TrackCore Software) and Lawson Software announce a strategic integration partnership designed to benefit healthcare organizations utilizing the CloverLeaf Secure Courier Client Suite. The partnership allows customers to easily integrate with most clinical and supply chain applications being utilized by hospitals today, including, but not limited to, Cerner/SurgiNet®, Epic®, McKesson®, Meditech®, and more.

Working together, we will create more incentives for customers to utilize both TrackCore and Cloverleaf. Using Cloverleaf, the TrackCore Software application will be able to seamlessly exchange information among various applications, data repositories, and information technology systems as needed, in real-time, regardless of location or format. Even if you currently use a different integration engine this partnership makes it easier for us to provide integration with your existing integration engine.

For more information about the LPIT Solutions-Lawson Partnership, contact us.

'Outstanding Customer Support' says Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital

"I have had a wonderful experience with TrackCore ever since we have been using it! In addition to the great software, my experience with customer support is outstanding! TrackCore support is knowledgeable and has handled any/all questions with grace.

Keep up the great job!”

Carmel Pound
Education Resource Specialist
Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital

VHA now a ‘sole source’ TrackCore partnership

TrackCore has partnered with VHA Pacific Northwest, West Coast and Central regions as a sole source contracted provider for tissue and implant tracking software for their members.


If you are part of a hospital, system or IDN looking to implement tissue and implant tracking software for the purposes of Joint Commission and FDA regulatory compliance, feel free to contact the LPIT Solutions’ TrackCore sales department at http://www.lpitsolutions.com/contact/contactform/sales/trackcore

Tissue TrackCore Now Supports RFID Technology

At the 2009 AORN Congress, LPiT Solutions, the developer of Tissue TrackCore announced that their software solution now supports integration with RFID hardware. RFID hardware is used to wirelessly receive product identification information from an RFID label and then electronically transmit the information directly to Tissue TrackCore, reducing the number of keystrokes required to perform data entry if bar code scanners are not in use. The RFID integration allows hospitals to track items with less manual data entry, providing for quicker and more accurate data entry, thus saving hospitals time and money.
Tissue TrackCore has become a best in breed solution for meeting Joint Commission and FDA compliance regulations regarding the tracking of tissue and other implantable items. Developed by a group of healthcare and technology professionals, Tissue TrackCore continues to evolve in ways that make tracking implantable items and meeting compliance regulations easier, faster and more affordable. In the next few months, Tissue TrackCore will be integrating even more technology to make meeting Joint Commission requirements that much faster and easier.

Did You Know? Several New Changes To The Joint Commission Standards for 2009 Could Affect How Hospitals Transplant Tissue And Organs.

There are several new changes to the Joint Commission Standards for 2009. One of the biggest changes directly affects the transplanting of tissues and organs.

• Transplant Safety (TS) is now its own Gold Chapter and a hospital must meet all the Elements of Performance (EP) in this chapter as a “Requirement for Accreditation”

What this means: The Joint Commission surveyor will spend time doing tracers and reviews on your entire tissue program.

• The new TS chapter requires more Documentation and new Measures of Success.

What this means: A Measure of Success (MOS) is needed. An MOS is defined as a quantifiable measure, usually related to an audit, which will be used to determine whether an action has been effective and is being sustained.

• There are now six Elements of Performance (EP) that are critically tagged and fall under the “Direct Impact Requirement” {TS .03.01.01 #5, #10} {TS .03.02.01 #1} {TS .03.03.01 #3, #4, #5}

What this means: If one or more Direct Impact EPs under a standard are found to be partially or insufficiently compliant, then all EPs under that standard must be addressed in an Evidence of Standards Compliance (ESC) within 45 days. Failure to send in the ESC or the MOS can result in either conditional accreditation or even denial of accreditation, or an unannounced on-site validation survey to see if you have made the required changes.

• Tissue TrackCore (TTC) is the only tissue tracking compliance software to be reviewed by the Joint Commission Resources. TTC can help you simply and efficiently meet all of the new standards with minimum impact on your staff.

What this means: For the cost of a couple of pieces of tissue you can not only ensure compliance, but also save time and reduce costs by purchasing the market leading software solution.

Thank You To AORN Attendees

The Tissue TrackCore Team at LPiT Solutions would like to extend a sincere thank you to the nearly 1400 Nurses and Managers who visited our booth and the MTF booth at the AORN trade show. It was great to meet everyone who stopped by to find out how Tissue TrackCore can help address compliance issues in a fast and easy manner.

We would like to extend a special thank you to the following TrackCore Customers who volunteered to share their Tissue TrackCore success stories with everyone who visited us at AORN:

• Jennifer Mockler, Program Manager for Tissue Transplant at the Cleveland Clinic
• Karen Graves, Operations Coordinator-Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic
• Judith Berkshire, Surgical Information Systems Nursing Liaison at Rush University Medical Center
• Susan Sable, Quality Improvement Coordinator for Laboratory at St. Francis Medical Center

Stanford University Medical Center 'We Love TrackCore!'

"TrackCore has turned tears of frustration to tears of relief! Instead of going tediously through all of our ASC’s Records, TrackCore allows us to generate, compare and print reports. It’s simple! The intuitiveness of TrackCore allows us to quickly point, click and print all tissue related information.

We love TrackCore! My happiness meter if off the charts!"

Gina Igel, RN, BSN
Stanford University Medical Center

LPiT Solutions, Developer of Tissue TrackCore, to Exhibit at 2009 AORN Congress Once Again

LPiT Solutions, developer of Tissue TrackCore, software for tissue tracking compliance, announced today that they will once again be exibiting at the 2009 AORN Congress. Be sure to visit them at booths 1200 and 1522 [shared with Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF)] in the exhibit hall. 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. One of the educational opportunities, will be the chance to earn 2 hours of CE credit at the MTF booth by completing the Allograft Standards and Compliance: "Getting on Track" study guide. The guide explains the current FDA, AATB, Joint Commission, AORN and AABB standards as they relate to tissue management and provides a tracking solution that can be tailored to your individual facility. Also included are case studies from Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Rush University Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Center describing how each facility "got on track" and implemented a tissue tracking system that saves time and ensures compliance within their organization.The AORN Congress is attended by more than 6,800 perioperative professionals. This year the Congress is being held in Chicago, Illinois from March 14th to 19th, 2009. Visit the AORN Congress website at http://www.aorn.org/.

LPiT Solutions 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 a market leading software package that allows facilities 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.

Tissue TrackCore Director Featured in Materials Management in Healthcare Magazine

Tissue TrackCore’s Director of Training and Implementation, Alan Brander, was recently featured in an article titled Keeping Track of Tissue in the Supply Chain in Materials Management in Health Care magazine. In the article, Alan, a former Chief Nursing Officer, remarked on how things are different now than in prior years.

In the past, materials managers really cared about whether the right order showed up at the right time on the loading dock. Now the Joint Commission wants you to track every interaction that every person has with that tissue.

Penn State Hershey Medical Center, a current Tissue TrackCore customer, is also mentioned in the article. The hospital’s director of surgical services, Matt Brennan agrees with Alan:

... materials managers must be aware that a new age of tissue care has dawned—one that requires increased tracking, record keeping and accountability. Sooner or later, some agency will knock on every hospital door, experts say. If you can show that you have your ducks in a row, you won’t have a problem. If not, the consequences can be serious.

For full text of the article, see
http://www.matmanmag.com/matmanmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=MATMANMAG/Article/data/10OCT2008/0810MMH_FEA_BioStorage&domain=MATMANMAG
A rich feature set, thorough knowledge and understanding of the Joint Commission’s evolving standards, regular application updates, and a wealth of feedback from an active and participatory user group, has allowed Tissue TrackCore to establish itself as a market leader in implantable item tracking and compliance. If your hospital is in need of tissue tracking and compliance software and wants to join our other success stories when it comes time for your Joint Commission reaccredidation survey, contact a Tissue TrackCore sales representative at 1.866.574.8765 or email us at sales@tissuetrackcore.com.

Tissue TrackCore Wows Joint Commission Surveyors at Two Customer Sites

Successful implementations of TrackCore are providing huge dividends for customer hospitals. The implementation and use of TrackCore is leading to successful Joint Commission audits and is easing the minds of OR managers who no longer have to fear whether or not their documentation is up to Joint Commission Standards.

In September of 2008, a Michigan hospital joined the ranks of successfully surveyed TrackCore clients. With regard to their recent Joint Commission reaccreditation survey, the RN and Chief Nursing Officer at the hospital said:

The physician surveyor remarked that he was "extremely impressed with the on-line tissue tracking program" and particularly liked our ability to quickly display the detail around all of the tissue samples in our program. He mentioned that the functionality provided by Tissue TrackCore was "very impressive" and that it was instrumental in assuring our compliance to the applicable standards.

We are completely satisfied customers of your product.

Additionally, in December of 2008, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois participated in a “mock” Joint Commission inspection and experienced great results, thanks in part to Tissue TrackCore.

…we had a "mock" JCAHO 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 documented 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 JCAHO inspection occurs.

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

A rich feature set, thorough knowledge and understanding of the Joint Commission’s evolving standards, regular application updates, and a wealth of feedback from an active and participatory user group, has allowed Tissue TrackCore to establish itself as a market leader in implantable item tracking and compliance. If your hospital is in need of tissue tracking and compliance software and wants to join our other success stories when it comes time for your Joint Commission reaccreditation survey, contact a Tissue TrackCore sales representative at 1.866.574.8765 or email us at sales@tissuetrackcore.com.