TrackCore 'Saving Time' at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

"Our nurses are having no problems and loving TrackCore! The ability to scan barcodes saves time by allowing us to quickly enter long serial numbers in our charting system. We are also utilizing the temperature logging feature. The program is so user friendly because input was given by a person who is actually on the user end! Thank-you!"

Jane D. Cox, R.N., BSN, CNOR
Perioperative Education Coordinator
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

TrackCore User Group 2010: 16 Hospitals Help Shape TrackCore

CLEVELAND, OH--The TrackCore User Group 2010 was held at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio on August 8-10. TUG10 was designed to spark and facilitate innovation with regards to tissue & implant tracking, compliance and methodologies to make the process easier and more efficient.

The event sparked interest from around the country, including hospitals from Californa all the way to New Jersey. "The input from our customers is invaluable to us" says Brenda Vander Linden, Co-Chair TUG10, "especially from a usability standpoint. In addition to giving our users the opportunity to voice their opinion, it gave them tremendous insight into how other organizations are tracking tissue and ensuring compliance."

In addition to the educational sessions, there was a panel session, comprising of Susan Sable of St. Francis Medical Center, David Border of Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Shelly Bosworth of North Kansas City Hospital, Karen Graves of The Cleveland Clinic, and Terri Stec of Baystate Medical Center.

Participants also had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Thomas Bauer, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Bauer has given more than 150 invited lectures outside of Cleveland Clinic, and has served as a consultant and voting member to U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panels in two different divisions. He has published more than 225 manuscripts and book chapters. He is also Deputy Editor for Research for The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

The TrackCore User Group 2011 location and dates will be announced later this year.

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TrackCore Customers Among US News & World Report Best

US News & World Report just released its 21st annual rankings of the best hospitals in the US.  Sifting through 5,000 hospitals, they identified 152 standout facilities in 16 specialities.  LPIT Solutions would like to congratulate those customers that made the list. 

• UC San Francisco Medical Center
• #7 on The Honor Roll with top 50 rankings in 11 specialties
• Cleveland Clinic
• #4 on The Honor Roll with top 50 rankings in 13 specialties
• Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, California
• Top 50 rankings in 12 specialties
• University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland
• Top 50 rankings in 7 specialties
• University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
• Top 50 rankings in 2 specialties
• Clarian Health, Indianapolis
• Top 50 rankings in 10 specialties
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Top 50 rankings in 11 specialties
• UC San Diego Medical Center
• Top 50 rankings in 5 specialties
• Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle
• #32 ranking in Gastroenterology
• Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
• Top 50 ranking in 4 specialties
• Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
• Top 50 rankings in 2 specialties
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston
• Top 50 rankings in 4 specialties
• Harper University Hospital, Detroit
• #43 ranking in Gynecology
• St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
• #8 ranking in Neurology & Neurosurgery
• Harborview Medical Center, Seattle
• #12 ranking in Orthopedics
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California
• Top 30 rankings in 9 children's specialties
• Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis
• Top 30 rankings in 8 children's specialties
• Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit
• #28 ranking in Children's Heart & Heart Surgery
• Children's Medical Center-Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas
• #2 ranking in Children's Orthopedics

 Read more about US News & World Report's top hospitals at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings

LPITSolutions Welcomes New Team Member - Chad Derry

LPITSolutions welcomed a new team member to its training and implementation team this week.  Chad Derry joined LPIT with the title of Training Specialist, TrackCore.  As a training specialist, Chad will be part of the team that assists new TrackCore customers in implementing TrackCore at their facility and training staff in the use of TrackCore prior to them going live with the software. 

Chad received a bachelor's degree in biology from Central Michigan University.  He also brings an entrepreneurial spirit to LPIT, having helped launch a startup digital document storage and archiving solutions company. 

Since 2003, Chad worked at Spectrum Health, Butterworth, in the Emergency Department as a nursing technician while continuing his education at Grand Valley State University in preparation for Physician Assistant Studies.  His clinical knowledge will play an important part in helping hospitals to realize the full potential of TrackCore in their environments.

Administrative Assistant Position

The Administrative Assistant position provides LPIT Solutions full and dynamic administrative support to a dedicated team of software engineers, sales, and executive management professionals. This individual uses their energetic and developed experience, knowledge, and talents in coordinating meetings, initiating telephone calls to new and existing customers, and may serve as facilitator who is organized, disciplined and a go-to person for all administrative functions.

Responsibilities

• Calendar/Travel/Meeting Coordination including, but not limited to sales web demonstrations, meetings/functions, telephone calls for executive(s).
• Answers telephone and directs customers to the appropriate staff member.
• Initiate telephone calls with little guidance, including follow-up calls after web demonstrations, new customers, and existing customers.
• Provide limited customer support assistance.
• Format and edit letters, reports, and all other correspondence from the draft stage to client-ready work; adhere to record retention policies and procedures; and follow an organized filing/document management process for electronic and paper documents.
• Work with firm-standard versions of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and other relevant software like our time and expense application; be able to navigate the internet and intranets and use technical equipment appropriately.
• Efficiently perform and filter research with minimal guidance.
• Work with customer relationship management software.

The ideal candidate will:

• Add value through understanding the work processes and resources, structure, and business of the firm/practice/functional group/industry, including when and how to access them.
• Add value by keeping abreast of the local business environment.
• Know where to find relevant business information.
• Have familiarity with customer relationship management and customer engagement applications

To qualify, candidates must have:

• Approximately 1-2 years of related experience
• Initiative and a strong customer service focus
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interface with personnel at all levels, both verbally and in writing
• The ability to meet new challenges with an open mind and an optimistic response
• The ability to effectively handle simultaneous projects, and successfully prioritize multiple tasks with good judgment
• Proficiency in standardized software applications, including MS Word, Excel and Outlook

To apply for this position, please follow this link.

Quality Assurance Specialist Position

(THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED.  Anyone interested in a similar position can still submit their resume using the link below, for future consideration.)
The Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist is a creative problem solver, assuring the quality of LPIT Solution’s existing software offerings and creating assured quality for new applications. The position requires an individual be able to take on multiple tasks. This individual uses their experience and skills in writing technical and user documentation, as well as some desire to, and experience in, writing code.

Requirements:

• Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues
• Ability to work at both detailed and abstract levels
• Ability to solve problems creatively
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing, by phone, and in person
• Highly Productive
• Willingness and ability to create and adapt to new technologies
• Ability to launch new projects and follow through to completion
• Desire to solve real problems for real users
• Passion for Quality Assurance of end-user applications
• Motivated to make customers happy
• Experience working with manual & automated test suites
• Familiarity with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design & execution

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Experience working in a variety of programming languages & environments
• Working knowledge of some/all of the following quality assurance methods:
• unit
• integration
• regression
• user interface
• automated testing
• Experience testing web-based enterprise applications
• Experience testing Windows-based enterprise applications
• Experience testing applications with an eye towards application security
• Browser and server side test automation
• Strong technical documentation writing skills
• Experience and a desire to write .NET code if needed

 To apply for this position, please follow this link.

University of California Expands Use of TrackCore Across Medical Facilities

Congratulations and welcome to the UCSF Medical Center as TrackCore was recently rolled out across three campuses including Parnassus, Mt. Zion and the Orthopedic Institute. The last campus to go live was Mt. Zion which went live in May of 2010.


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