LPIT Solutions Announces 2nd Annual TrackCore User Group

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 2011—The TrackCore User Group 2011 (TUG11) will be held at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino on September 19-22, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. TUG11 is for all users of TrackCore including IT Directors, Materials Managers, and OR Directors as well as Perioperative, Surgical and Nursing staff.

The event will feature discussions on compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) standards, TrackCore developments and releases–including TrackCore Mobile and TrackCore RFID, and industry insight on the future of tracking. The TrackCore team encourages all users to attend TUG 11 as it provides an opportunity for interaction and participation with clinical decision makers from across the United States.

New for 2011, attendees may become TrackCore Certified, receive additional training and have an opportunity to earn CEU credits. In addition, TUG11 attendees are invited to submit a poster based on topics related to tissue and implant management. The top qualifying posters will be selected for display in Las Vegas. TrackCore Users are also encouraged to submit a presentation on relevant topics including FDA/TJC Compliance and best practices for utilizing TrackCore.

TUG11 will also include the opportunity to explore Las Vegas with events planned at both the Rio and at locations along the Las Vegas strip. This high-energy event will be one you won’t want to miss!

For more information and to register for TUG 11 please visit https://secure.lpitsolutions.com/TUG11

Bakersfield Using Bi-Directional Interfacing with TrackCore and Meditech

Bi-Directional Interfacing is now occurring between TrackCore and Meditech’s ORM Application at three of the Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) facilities in the Bakersfield, CA area; Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, and the Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield Campuses at Truxtun and Southwest.

As of late December 2010, inbound ADT messages from the Memorial, Truxtun and Southwest facilities have been flowing via HL7 to TrackCore. ADT messages containing patient data are flowing from Meditech and auto-populating fields within TrackCore’s implant record.

The completed TrackCore Log, containing the tissue or implant data, is then sent back to finalize Meditech’s item implantation record. Additionally, outbound TrackCore inventory consumption messages from these facilities are being received by Meditech via HL7.

About CHW’s Bakersfield, CA Hospitals

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California and the nation’s eighth largest hospital system. Founded in 1986, the CHW network serves a population spanning 22 million people at 41 hospitals across California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital opened in 1956 as a community hospital and is currently a regional medical center with nationally-recognized departments and services including a cardiovascular program, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery and general surgery, a Family Care Center, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Today, the 418-bed facility serves patients throughout Kern County and beyond.

Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and consisting of the Truxtun and Southwest campuses, has cared for the residents of Kern County for over 100 years. Mercy is committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality, affordable health care services with special attention to the poor and underserved.

About LPIT Solutions & TrackCore

LPIT Solutions is a leading resource for healthcare technology solutions and integrated tracking applications through dynamic web-based software. TrackCore is the premier tracking solution designed to give healthcare providers the power to stay in control of their implant operations. TrackCore allows you to efficiently manage and track the receipt, transfer, issuance, validation, implantation and disposal of tissues and implants — all accomplished with point-and-click accessibility.

Memorial Hermann Healthcare Accomplishes Stage 6 of HIMSS Analytics

LPIT Solutions commends three of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System’s facilities for their attainment of Stage 6 in HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model. They are three of 150 hospitals nationally recognized as sophisticated healthcare organizations.


Upon reaching Stage 6 the facilities of Memorial Hermann Katy, Memorial Hermann Southeast and Memorial Hermann Sugar Land are accepted as displaying significant progression in their IT proficiency. In addition, HIMMS officials distinguish Stage 6 hospitals for their advantageous capabilities of increased patient safety, support and recruitment for clinicians as well as competitive marketing for nurses and patients.

The EMR Adoption Model developed by HIMMS Analytics measures the advancement of employing information technology software applications and utilizing automated patient records. The hospitals achieving Stage 6 have almost entirely gone to electronic and paperless medical records and charting.

LPIT Solutions is proud to enhance Memorial Hermann’s efforts in utilizing the latest healthcare technology by providing them our TrackCore software. TrackCore allows Memorial Hermann to have efficient operating room procedures, by tracking their tissues and implants from delivery and reception to storage and implementation.

Memorial Hermann’s facilities are fully able to provide their data to the healthcare community by acquiring the technological support to trade an extensive amount of medical information. TrackCore improves their data sharing abilities by offering the point-and-click generation of reports on any tissue or implant.

Memorial Hermann, with 11 hospitals and 10 surgery centers, is the largest among Texas’ not-for profit health systems. Memorial Hermann has remained steadfast in accomplishing their mission of improving healthcare for the people of southeast Texas. The Memorial Hermann staff members have embraced an atmosphere of accountability and innovation allowing for an environment where patient safety persists as the top priority.

LPIT Solutions, Inc. is a leading resource for healthcare technology solutions and integrated tracking applications through dynamic web-based software. TrackCore, recognized as the market leading solution, is designed to give healthcare providers the power to stay in compliance and in control of their implant tracking process. TrackCore is the primary software platform for tracking, recording, and reporting data from a variety of sources.

TrackCore Customers Recognized As 2010 Top Hospitals

LPIT Solutions congratulates its TrackCore customers for their achievement in making the 2010 Leapfrog Group’s Annual Top Hospital List. The list of medical centers covers children’s hospitals, university and teaching hospitals as well as community hospitals.

LPIT commends Stanford Hospital and Clinics (CA), Rush University Medical Center (IL), Baystate Medical Center (MA), Hackensack University Medical (NJ), University Medical Center at Princeton (NJ), and Virginia Mason Medical Center (WA) for their success and recognition. We also congratulate Virgina Mason Medical Center for their additional achievement of being selected as one of two Top Hospitals of the Decade (2000-2010).

Our customers voluntarily took the survey, pitting themselves against the finest of their peers. They rose to be among the Top 65 from a body of 1200 Hospitals. The benchmarks for 2010 consisted of standards for high risk procedures, using computer physician order entry, providing adequate physician and nursing staff, adhering to the National Quality Forum’s appropriate protocol and policies along with advancement in preventing infections and implementation of procedures for managing serious medical errors.

LPIT is proud to help manage the tissue and implant tracking needs of these outstanding hospitals. Our TrackCore software helps these hospitals exceed compliance to the procedures outlined by the FDA and Joint Commission as well as National Quality Forum. We at LPIT are delighted to assist our clients in striving to achieve the highest standards in healthcare.

Leapfrog Group is an association of public and private employers that recognize and reward those in the healthcare industry who make improvements in safety, quality and enhance customer value in their medical facilities. For more information visit their website at http://www.leapfroggroup.org/.

Integration Does Not Need To Be Expensive Or Complicated

St John’s Medical Center in West Lake, OH successfully went live with TrackCore in June 2010. They are using TrackCore to track all their cellular and synthetic implants from the loading dock all the way through final disposition. One of the challenges for the clinical staff was the completion of the patient information in TrackCore. Due to IT department constraints they were not able to provide an HL7 or webservices integration between Meditech and TrackCore at the time of go live. To help ease the charting demands on nursing, the IT team generated a report out of Meditech, like this one http://www.lpitsolutions.com/resourcedocuments/MeditechBarcodeSheet.pdf, for all patients booked for surgery. The report is placed in the patient’s chart in the holding area, and contains individual barcodes for Medical Record Number, Account/Visit Number, Patient Name, and Date of Birth. This allows the Circulating Nurse to scan the patient information directly into the implant screen in TrackCore thus dramatically reducing both the number of keystrokes and the time to complete the implant record.

Implant and Tissue Vendors Interface With TrackCore to Provide Catalog and Item Info to End Users

Recently, we have posted a lot about how our TrackCore customers can interface their existing Healthcare IT systems with TrackCore. What many may not be aware of is that TrackCore’s open integration platform also allows implant and tissue vendors to integrate with TrackCore. This means that by entering a serial number into the appropriate field when receiving an item into TrackCore, a user can retrieve information regarding that specific item directly from the vendor’s data description. This results in tremendous time savings, in terms of data entry, when receiving an item into TrackCore.


Many of our customers are familiar with this when receiving items from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) into TrackCore. Through LPIT’s unique partnership with MTF, TrackCore regularly receives product information for individual items that are shipped to joint MTF / TrackCore customers. This allows automatic population of everything from the item description to the cost and dimensions of the item, saving a tremendous amount of keystrokes. This interface is automatic for every new TrackCore customer.

What some do not know is that a similar interface was also implemented by Edwards Lifesciences (ELS), a leading manufacturer of heart valves and related repair products. The first interface between ELS and TrackCore was implemented over a year ago for the Cleveland Clinic. In order for a customer to initiate an ELS interface, you must contact your ELS account representative and have them contact LPIT Solutions to start the discussions of establishing the interface.

Hospitals that are looking for an easy to use tissue and implant tracking application that utilizes vendor interfaces to streamline Joint Commission and FDA implant tracking requirements should contact LPIT Solutions at 1-866-574-8765. Information may also be requested on the LPIT website at http://www.lpitsolutions.com/contact/contactform/info.

LPIT Solutions named Reinvented Company Of the Year in the inaugural Great Lakes Innovation & Technology Report GLITR Awards

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., October 11, 2010 – LPIT Solutions Inc., a healthcare software company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was recipient of the 2010 GLITR (The Great Lakes Innovation And Technology Report) Awards Reinvented Company of the Year. The award was announced at the I3M: Igniting Innovation In Michigan Event, a ceremony that celebrates ‘Entrepreneurs in Action’ and recognizes top companies in the Great Lakes Region that have grown and expanded their companies based on technologically advanced or innovative solutions that shape industries.

“LPIT is excited to be a part of this celebrated group and honored to receive this award. We are proud to be one of the many companies in Michigan and the Great Lakes states that are adapting to the changing markets, while bringing jobs to the region” said John Post, President & CEO of LPIT. Post’s experience in the healthcare and technology industries began in the early 1990s and eventually led to the founding of LPIT Solutions, Inc. in 2002. In 2006, LPIT Solutions launched TrackCore, which has become an industry leading tissue & implant tracking software package, and is considered a pioneering product in the industry.

LPIT Solutions and John Post also participated in the “Meet the GLITR Award Winners” session, on Thursday, September 30th at Lawrence Technological University. The event was presented by WWJ Newsradio 950 and its technology report segment GLITR.

The GLITR Awards were presented to Michigan-based companies for outstanding performance in transforming and rebuilding the economy.

About TrackCore Software
TrackCore Software is a cost-efficient, easy-to-use software package for tracking tissue usage and complying with Federal standards. TrackCore allows organizations to efficiently manage and track the chain of custody for tissue and implants. Built by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, TrackCore is the industry leader in tissue tracking and helping healthcare organizations ensure compliance with the FDA and Joint Commission.

About LPIT Solutions, Inc.
LPIT Solutions, Inc. is a leading resource for business technology and healthcare software. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, LPIT Solutions specializes in the design, development and implementation of internet based software solutions. LPIT Solutions, Inc. is proud to be the developer and distributor of TrackCore.

About The Great Lakes Innovation And Technology Report (GLITR)
Hosted by WWJ Newsradio Technology Editor, Matt Roush, GLITR is a regional radio program that highlights business and technological innovations, with particular focus on green technology, alternative energy solutions, emerging markets, and growing companies. Owned and operated by CBS Radio, WWJ is Detroit’s only all news station celebrating 90 Years of Innovation in 2010.

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