Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Establishing 340B Eligibility

A Step-By-Step Guide for Determining the Eligibility of Your Organization and Initiating 340B Contracts.

Section 340B Contract Creation & Management Section 340B of the Public Service Act makes it possible for Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) and other healthcare‐related entities to serve underprivileged populations more cost‐effectively. Section
340B requires drug manufacturers provide outpatient medications at lower prices to eligible healthcare organizations, or “Covered Entities.” A 340B contract can provide tremendous savings to a covered entity, and initiating the contract is a relatively straightforward process which can be completed in a few short steps.

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TALYST PARTNERS WITH WELLFOUNT PHARMACY TO ELIMINATE MEDICATION WASTE IN LONG-TERM CARE

Talyst InSite™, the first pharmacy automation system designed specifically for long-term care facilities, enables on-demand dispensing, greatly reducing medication waste and nursing time.

Talyst announced today its new partnership with Wellfount Pharmacy, an Indianapolis-based pharmacy that services long-term care facilities. Wellfount will implement Talyst’s InSiteRX Remote Dispensing System in long-term care facilities to increase efficiency and reduce medication waste and errors. Talyst made the announcement today at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Midyear Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

“We looked at other dispensing solutions but Talyst was the only player that really understood the long-term care market,” said Paul Leamon, president and CEO of Wellfount. “The complexities and regulations within the long-term care make it ripe for automation. We’re working with Talyst to provide the technology that will save nurses time, make patients safer, and decrease medication waste — positively impacting both the environment and the bottom line.”

Traditionally, Wellfount would deliver medication inventory to long-term care facilities in 14- or 28-day supplies, creating medication waste whenever a patient’s prescription changed, or the patient transferred facilities or passed away. Furthermore, according to Leamon, the patients Wellfount services take an average 12 prescriptions a day. With different doctors, pharmacists, administrators and nurses involved in each individual prescription, yet not always in direct contact with one another, the potential for error was always a top concern.

With the InSite Remote Dispensing System, Talyst places a freestanding, secure dispensing unit on site at the long-term care facility. When it is time for a patient to receive their medications, the InSite unit dispenses patient-specific multi-dose packets, each printed with the patient’s name, the name of the medication, and a verifying bar code. The nurse scans the bar code with a handheld scanner, verifies the patient and medication information, and administers the medications. Because the prescriptions are dispensed on-demand, there is practically no opportunity for medication waste or error.

Medication orders can be approved by a distant pharmacist and immediately dispensed at the long-term care facility. The automated system means prescription changes or STAT orders are not delayed by delivery times. The facility also requires less medication inventory on-hand because inventory is determined by actual usage.

See the full article at Talyst Eliminates Medication Waste

Monday, August 24, 2009

Talyst, With $8M in New Funding, Sets Sights on Its Next Healthcare-IT Business

It might be too early to call Bellevue, WA-based Talyst a success, but its story certainly makes for a compelling case study. The company closed $8 million last month from existing investors OVP Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, and AIG Global Investment Group, but didn’t make an announcement. Why? Things have been too busy.

“We raised money to grow new markets,” says Talyst CEO Carla Corkern, who has just been named chairman of the board. “That’s what VCs like to invest in.”

Talyst is known for making software that helps pharmacies manage the flow of medications in hospitals and clinics. The idea is to automate the process of tracking drug inventory and filling prescriptions using smart management software and a touch-screen kiosk interface—sort of like going to a vending machine—and to do it in a safe, secure, and efficient way. The new markets Corkern wants to expand into are nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as prisons and other correctional facilities. Those facilities have many people who need medications, but may not have a pharmacist on-site, so they need an efficient way for a nurse or caretaker to package and dispense meds to patients.

“The long-term care market is a $2 billion market for facility-based automation which has a strong return on investment—needed for these times,” says Corkern.

To appreciate the significance of this new market strategy, you need to know the history—much of which occurred before Corkern joined the company. Talyst was founded in 2002 as Integrated Healthcare Systems, and raised some $29 million in venture funding in 2005 and 2006 (a total of $37.5 million prior to the latest round). By 2007, it had become a market leader in managing medications for hospital pharmacies.

Read the full article by Gregory T. Huang at xconomy.com

Thursday, August 13, 2009

AutoSplit 340B - 340B Processing Software

340B Processing Software
Talyst announces its 340B processing and management software, AutoSplit 340B. AutoSplit 340B automatically monitors all pharmaceutical usage in a 340B-eligible healthcare organization to provide maximum return on qualified transactions. The software works simultaneously with multiple vendors, allows storage and access to as much historical data as needed, and its enhanced reporting features facilitate exporting data to an Excel spreadsheet.

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340B Prime Vendor Program 340B solution

340B Split Billing/ Replenishment Software.

The Talyst Solution

Streamline 340B Processing & Management
AutoSplit® 340B gives eligible healthcare organizations a more efficient way to process 340B claims. Our easy-to-use split-billing software works with your pharmacy information system, automatically monitoring all pharmaceutical usage to utilize every contract opportunity. It uses data from your current wholesale vendors and hospital information systems, and creates replenishment orders based on eligible 340B transactions.

Talyst is the market leader in 340B contract automation, and has more installed customers than anyone else. Our powerful AutoSplit software enables you to consolidate your data and work simultaneously with multiple vendors. It allows you to store and access as much historical data as you want, and our enhanced reporting features make it easy to export the data you need to an Excel spreadsheet.
Centralize Your 340B Contract Administration
AutoSplit® 340B is easy-to-implement, flexible, and automated. It helps maximize your 340B contract savings while reducing program administration hours, and provides accurate data for reporting and audits.


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Friday, August 7, 2009

CEO Carla Corkern - 100 Women in Seattle Top Tech

The technology industry has historically been dominated by men, but the Seattle region is home to an impressive group of women making their mark as computer scientists, researchers, engineers, social media gurus, tech entrepreneurs and executives.

We're bringing them together for the first time today, in this post. Welcome to our inaugural list of the top women in Seattle technology.

The following information was compiled over several months, starting with reader suggestions before we launched the site. Still, this is just a starting point. We expect it to grow substantially, with continued input from the TechFlash community. We'll refer to the list as we seek people to profile and interview. And we have more plans in the works to continue developing and building on this theme.

In the meantime, continue reading for what amounts to a remarkable argument against traditional stereotypes about gender in the technology industry.

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Carla Corkern, CEO of Talyst, Bellevue-based automated medication-management company. Previously chief operations officer at aerospace supply-management company Vykor, overseeing areas including software development, customer support...

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Interview With Talyst CEO Carla Corkern

August 3rd, 2009 by David E. Williams of the Health Business Blog

Talyst makes hardware and software for remote, on-demand medication dispensing for hospitals, nursing homes and prisons. Often prescriptions for these facilities are purchased in 30-day blister packs. But things change: prescriptions change, patients die, prisoners get moved around or released and so on. A lot of times drugs get wasted as a result. The Talyst system looks pretty interesting and I’m not surprised the company is gaining traction.

I spoke today with Carla Corkern, Chairman and CEO of Talyst. We talked about the company’s value proposition, integration with existing information and distribution systems, costs, and how Talyst fits into healthcare reform overall. Since Carla’s background is in high tech and supply chain, I was also interested in her impressions of the healthcare space.

Carla was on a cell phone and the audio isn’t great. If you can’t handle it, just read the transcript.

The recorded interview is on the Health Business blog website, Click Here to listen





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Sunday, July 12, 2009

California Cost-Cutter: InsiteRx for Corrections

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Preparing 3,200 prescriptions every day at the West Valley Detention Center in
Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., used to take four nurses four hours each. Now, it
takes one remote dispensing machine 45 minutes.

“This is truly 21st century for medication delivery,” said Terry Fillman, health
services supervisor for the detention center and the six other facilities in the
San Bernardino County Corrections Department.

After years of trying different delivery methods with little improvement, the county teamed up with Talyst, a medication management services provider, to develop a remote dispensing system that caters to the unique needs of correction facilities.

The result, InSite for Corrections, has transformed medication delivery from a slow, manual process into a real-time, automated system that dramatically reduces costly waste and improves patient care.

“We’ve eliminated by-hand processes,” Fillman said. “Now the only thing is
actually delivering the medication.”

The InSite System enables physicians to order prescriptions from a computer in the prison; a hospital pharmacist across the county to approve the order; and then a secure machine back at the prison to dispense the pills in individualized packets.

Before, the order-and-delivery process could take up to two days because medications had to be sent to the prison. Now, patients receive medications the same day they are prescribed, just as a patient would in a hospital.

“Why are our patients any different?” Fillman said. “I wanted my patient to get the next dose due that a physician ordered for them.”

The dispenser also improves accuracy by printing the patient’s information
on the packet, along with the name and description of each pill, down to the dosage, shape, color and markings. Nurses double-check that the right meds are going to the right person by comparing the pills with the description and the patient’s chart.

However, what makes this system so powerful for corrections is its ability to track inmates’ location and status in real time.

“We get enormous amount of movement in and out of the system, from one location to another,” Fillman said.

By linking the sheriffs’, corrections’ and pharmacy’s computer systems together, InSite knows the up-to-the-minute location of every inmate. When it’s time to prepare medications each morning and evening, the packaging machine only dispenses prescriptions for those inmates who are in the facility.

Before, the law required nurses to throw away thousands of medications they could not deliver because an inmate had moved, or when an inmate left the system before using a 30-day supply. With InSite, waste is almost entirely eliminated, equating to significant savings in the prisons’ $3.5 million medication budget, Fillman said.

Additional cost savings are realized in the time nurses can devote to other duties by having the dispenser prepare pills.

Saving money was key in gaining support from the county board of supervisors, Fillman said. The board approved $3.8 million to develop and implement the system, which took about 18 months. The county now has a dispenser in each of its seven correctional facilities and two in its hospital.

The redundancy is helpful should a machine malfunction (yet to happen) or
a facility loses power, which happened at the West Valley Detention Center.
When the backup generator did not come on, Fillman called another facility
and had the nurses there download the medication orders for his facility to their
machine.

“I was back in an hour and 15 minutes with 3,200 prescriptions for the next 24 hours,” Fillman said.

—Laura Petersen
California cost-cutter

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Talyst Receives Multiple Honors for Workplace Excellence

Talyst Receives Multiple Honors for Workplace Excellence
Company Recognized for Exceptional Benefits, Work and Life Equilibrium and Leadership Culture.

Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) July 9, 2009 -- Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation systems, found June to be an award-filled month as it received kudos for cultivating an excellent work environment. Talyst was awarded as one of "Washington's 100 Best Companies to Work For 2009" by Seattle Business Monthly, and is a finalist for the Puget Sound Business Journal's "Washington's Best Workplaces."

Talyst is a relatively small company with just over 100 employees, but its products play a crucial role in health care facilities. Talyst provides automated medication management hardware and software to acute care hospital pharmacies, long-term care facilities and correctional facilities nationwide. With Talyst's products, the right medications go to the right patient at the right time and in the right dose. It is fast-paced and demanding work, but Talyst's employees meet that challenge.
"Our employees are the lifeblood of our company, and we work hard to provide them with a productive, positive and fun work environment,"
said Carla Corkern, Talyst CEO and chairman of the board. "Most rewarding for all of us, however, is knowing the profound impact our work has on both improving safety outcomes for patients in health care facilities and diminishing the waste footprints generated by traditional medication dispensing methods."
Talyst has been recognized by both awards for providing excellent benefits, work/life balance and an exceptional leadership culture. Talyst earned these honors by offering flexible schedules to ensure that employees' family is
never neglected; scheduling quarterly All-Hands Meetings to deliver honest fiscal outlooks, share smart strategies and honor individual and group achievements; and offering broad support for continuing education and training.

Talyst's successes extend beyond the workplace to numerous additional industry awards including Inc. Magazine's "Inc. 500" list of fastest-growing U.S. private companies, the Deloitte "Fast 50" Technology
Companies in Washington State, the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ) Fastest Growing Private Companies and the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce Eastside Business Awards.
The PSBJ will unveil the winners of the Washington's Best Workplace award on August 20th at Safeco Field in Seattle, Wash. A list of finalists is available at www.wabestworkplaces.com.

About Talyst:
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, bar-coding, and clinical systems. By 2009, Talyst had installed automated systems in close to 400 acute care hospitals and integrated healthcare companies. By leveraging our expertise in acute care pharmacy automation, we are now building unique systems
designed specifically to meet the needs of long-term care facilities and correctional institutions. Talyst is dedicated to delivering world-class software and proven hardware components to enhance efficiency, provide greater inventory control, and improve patient safety in all environments. For more information, see
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www.talyst.com or call 877-4-Talyst (877-482-5978).

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Talyst's Offsite Tours Allow ASHP Attendees to Learn from Successful Implementations

Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation systems, is moving beyond the booth at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Expo taking place this week in Rosemont, Illinois. Groups of select pharmacists will go on site visits to Northwestern hospital pharmacy for an in-depth look at Talyst products in operation.

"For many pharmacists, there is nothing that compares to the value of seeing a fully-equipped and operational pharmacy," said Carla Corkern, Talyst CEO and chairman of the board. "We'll also be taking full advantage of the floor space at ASHP to exhibit our products that solve key issues pharmacists are dealing with today such as navigating 340B, controlling costs and ensuring the safety of patients."

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Carla Corkern Elected as Talyst’s Chairman of the Board

The Board of Directors of Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation, has elected
Carla Corkern, Talyst CEO, as its chairman.

Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) June 11, 2009 -- The Board of Directors of Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation, has elected Carla Corkern as its chairman. Corkern joined Talyst in 2006, and was named to the board of directors in 2008. She was appointed CEO in late 2008. Corkern has led many of the company's largest ongoing initiatives, which include significant campaigns in new growth markets. Talyst's recent successes have been recognized through numerous industry awards including Inc. Magazine's "Inc. 500" list of fastest-growing U.S. private companies, the Deloitte "Fast 50" Technology Companies in Washington State, the Puget Sound Business Journal Fastest Growing Private Companies and the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce Eastside Business Awards. Corkern herself was recently included in the TechFlash Top 100 Women in Seattle Technology.

Lucinda Stewart, a managing director at OVP Venture Partners and Talyst board member, said: "The board selected Carla because of her demonstrated leadership and aggressive pursuit of growth, backed by smart strategy. She is well respected by her Talyst colleagues and is a leader in her community and industry. We believe Talyst is well positioned for the dramatic demographic and IT shifts that are occurring in healthcare, and Carla's vision for connecting Talyst with these opportunities is the right one for the times."

Corkern has more than 18 years of experience in high technology and supply chain management. Before joining Talyst, she served as chief operations officer at Vykor, Inc., a leading company in the management of the aerospace supply chain. She contributed to a plan that raised $28 million in venture capital funding and managed the company's software development, customer support, training and professional services. Prior to that, she served as a general manager for Netegrity's portal business and focused on integrating DataChannel into Netegrity. Corkern replaces Elliott Hayes of AIG, who remains a board member.


About Talyst:
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems.

By 2009, Talyst had installed automated systems in close to 400 acute care hospitals and integrated healthcare companies. By leveraging our expertise in acute care pharmacy automation, we are now building unique systems designed specifically to meet the needs of long-term care facilities and correctional institutions. Talyst is dedicated to delivering world-class software and proven hardware components to enhance efficiency, provide greater inventory control, and improve patient safety in all environments.

For more information, see the Talyst Website or call 877-4-Talyst (877-482-5978).

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Talyst Partners with Wellfount Pharmacy to Eliminate Medication Waste in Long-Term Care

Talyst InSite™, the first pharmacy automation system designed specifically for long-term care facilities, enables on-demand dispensing and saves nursing time

Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) May 7, 2009 -- Talyst announced today its new partnership with Wellfount Pharmacy, an Indianapolis-based pharmacy that services long-term care facilities. Wellfount will implement Talyst's InSite Remote Dispensing System in long-term care facilities to increase efficiency and reduce medication waste and errors. Talyst made the announcement today at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Midyear Meeting in Orlando, Florida.


"We looked at other dispensing solutions but Talyst was the only player that really understood the long-term care market," said Paul Leamon, president and CEO of Wellfount. "The complexities and regulations within the long-term care make it ripe for automation. We're working with Talyst to provide the technology that will save nurses time, make patients safer, and decrease medication waste -- positively impacting both the environment and the bottom line."


Traditionally, Wellfount would deliver medication inventory to long-term care facilities in 14- or 28-day supplies, creating medication waste whenever a patient's prescription changed, or the patient transferred facilities or passed away. Furthermore, according to Leamon, the patients Wellfount services take an average 12 prescriptions a day. With different doctors, pharmacists, administrators and nurses involved in each individual prescription, yet not always in direct contact with one another, the potential for error was always a top concern.


With the InSite Remote Dispensing System, Talyst places a freestanding, secure dispensing unit on site at the long-term care facility. When it is time for a patient to receive their medications, the InSite unit dispenses patient-specific multi-dose packets, each printed with the patient's name, the name of the medication, and a verifying bar code. The nurse scans the bar code with a handheld scanner, verifies the patient and medication information, and administers the medications. Because the prescriptions are dispensed on-demand, there is practically no opportunity for error or waste.


Medication orders can be approved by a distant pharmacist and immediately dispensed at the long-term care facility. The automated system means prescription changes or STAT orders are not delayed by delivery times. The facility also requires less medication inventory on-hand because inventory is determined by actual usage.


"Wellfount is a forward-thinking pharmacy that is responding to a widespread need in the long-term care industry, and that is to reduce waste, improve safety and save nursing time," explains Carla Corkern, CEO of Talyst. "We developed InSite to service this need, and early installations have shown a reduction in nursing medication prep time by up to 75 percent, and Medicare Part A waste was nearly eliminated."


Talyst's partnership with Wellfount represents the growing number of pharmacies and long-term care facilities that are realizing the benefits of the InSite Remote Dispensing System. As long-term care populations swell and nursing shortages worsen, implementing technology can ease the labor burden, improve patient safety and curb medication waste.


For further information, visit Talyst's booth number 1001 at ASCP, or www.talyst.com.


About Talyst:

Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm® , the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems.


By 2009, Talyst had installed automated systems in close to 400 acute care hospitals and integrated healthcare companies. By leveraging our expertise in acute care pharmacy automation, we are now building unique systems designed specifically to meet the needs of long-term care facilities and correctional institutions. Talyst is dedicated to delivering world-class software and proven hardware components to enhance efficiency, provide greater inventory control, and improve patient safety in all environments. For more information, see talyst.com or call 877-4-Talyst (877-482-5978).

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Healthcare IT News Commentary: While reforming, let’s not overlook long-term care

As our federal government prepares to invest billions of dollars to modernize healthcare, and reform is at the forefront of the agenda, policymakers should take a close look at the huge opportunities at our fingertips that can dramatically reduce medication waste and increase patient safety within long-term care facilities.

If there’s ever been a time to spend every dollar wisely, it’s now. At the very time our economy is floundering, long-term care residency is growing by leaps and bounds. Baby Boomers are aging, and medical advances on all fronts enable patients to live longer with chronic conditions. Despite this need for prudent spending, $376 million of medications, mainly through unconsumed drugs, are flushed down toilets in long-term facilities every year.

Well-intentioned caregivers have little choice. Their hands are bound by red tape, contradictory regulations, and old-fashioned pharmacy relationships that don’t provide any option but to order meds in large quantities and flush or incinerate the unused portions.

Patient safety is also a significant concern as long-term care facilities struggle to manage increasingly complex drug regimens for those in their care. According to Paul Leamon, president and CEO of Wellfount, an Indiana pharmacy that services mainly long-term care facilities, their average patient takes a staggering 12 prescriptions a day. While that number itself is astounding, one must also consider the multiple numbers of people participating in the medication delivery process. There are different doctors, pharmacists, administrators and nurses across various shifts involved in each individual prescription, exponentially increasing the chance of medication errors.

Best practices can be learned, however, from acute care. Facilities across the country have achieved significant ROI and improved patient safety through on-demand, 100 percent-automated medication dispensing, which dispenses individually packaged, bar-coded prescriptions for each individual patient. No more valuable nursing time wasted by popping pills out of blister packs into little paper cups. No more millions of dollars wasted because they have to flush 27 of the 30 doses in standard-delivery blister packs because the doctor changed a patient’s prescription two days into treatment, or the patient was released, transferred to another facility, or passed away.

Wellfount is blazing the trail by implementing this technology to service its more than 40 institutions. When it’s time for Mrs. Smith’s medication, for example, the InSite unit dispenses her medications in individually sealed packets, each printed with her name, the name of the medication, and a verifying bar code. The nurse scans the bar code with a hand-held scanner, verifies the patient and medication information, and administers the meds to her. Because the prescriptions are dispensed on-demand and only one dose at a time, the opportunity for medication error or medication waste is greatly reduced.

Leamon predicts that providers of “smart” health IT technology – like the software and hardware that runs Wellfount’s remote dispensing machines – will fare well in this economic climate. There is an extraordinary new interest in saving money and increasing patient safety. Even the federal government has set aside $19 billion for technology solutions that usher in meaningful change.

There’s no doubt that we need to be strategic and forward thinking about healthcare spending. But while we’re looking down the road at the eventual benefits of this and that, we should also target the low-hanging fruit that yield immediate, dramatic and measurable effects on patient safety and rising healthcare costs.

Carla Corkern chief executive officer at Talyst, has helped build several highly-successful technology companies, and has more than 18 years of experience in high-tech and supply chain management.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Talyst Wins Eastside's small business of the year

The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce handed out awards to Eastside companies that uphold a strong commitment to quality, community and innovation. The awards were part of the 20th Annual Bellevue Chamber of Commerce Eastside Business Awards luncheon April 29.

“From Kirkland to Bothell, Redmond to Bellevue, this year’s winners and finalists are making an impact on their communities and their competition," said Betty Nokes, President and CEO, Bellevue Chamber of Commerce. "They demonstrate a strong entrepreneurial spirit in response to a challenging economy,”

Fifteen finalists were chosen and five winners were honored with awards.

Eastside Business of the Year – Expedia, Inc. (Bellevue)
Finalists: Esterline Corporation (Bellevue) and SonoSite, Inc. (Bothell)
Expedia was recognized for its superior performance, history of revenue growth exceeding $10 million, strength of leadership team, ability to seize new market opportunities, and their development of unique partnerships with the community.

Eastside Small Business – Talyst (Bellevue)
Finalists: Netstar Communications, Inc. (Bellevue) and PCSI Design (Bothell)
Talyst was recognized for its superior performance, history of revenue growth, a growing staffing plan, and ability to seize new market opportunities, new approaches and new technologies.

Eastside Emerging Business – Magellan Architects, (Redmond)
Finalists: Intelius, Inc. (Bellevue) and Pathway Medical Technologies, Inc. (Kirkland)
Magellan Architects was recognized for achieving a presence in the Eastside business community and demonstrating consistent and significant growth.

Eastside Non-Profit/Community Impact – Eastside Baby Corner, (Issaquah)
Finalists: AtWork! (Bellevue) and Friends of Youth (Redmond,)
Eastside Baby Corner was recognized for its commitment to making the Eastside a better place to live through the development and operation of programs that benefit the community.

Eastside Outstanding Community Citizen – BarclayDean, (Bellevue)
Finalists: Intelius, Inc. (Bellevue) and Tutoring Club (Bellevue)
BarclayDean was recognized for its sustained commitment to programs and activities that benefit the Eastside community.

Any business located on the Eastside was eligible to compete for an award. Companies submitted applications based on category guidelines that were judged by an independent panel of regional business leaders.

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Tackling Medication Waste in Corrections 4/4/09

Talyst InSite™, the first pharmacy automation system designed specifically for correctional facilities, enables on-demand dispensing and saves nursing time.

Bellevue, Wash., April 4, 2009 – Every year, millions of dollars’ worth of inmate medications and nursing staff hours are wasted. Inaccurate or incomplete patient information leads to errors ranging from wrong location to wrong medication, and outmoded, time-consuming dispensing practices are aggravated by a shortage of nurses that reaches a staggering 54 percent in some areas. Providing healthcare in a correctional environment also poses unique challenges in terms of security, timeliness, regulatory compliance, and exposure to potential liability.

In response to such pervasive concerns, Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation systems, developed InSite™ for Corrections, the first pharmacy automation solution designed for use in correctional facilities.

“Failing to leverage existing resources and technology to improve the corrections health care system is tantamount to letting crops rot during a famine,” said Carla Corkern, CEO of Talyst. “Providing on-demand medication dispensing with patient-specific packaging ensures the right patient gets the right medication every time. Talyst empowers facilities to virtually eliminate waste and medication errors and save enormous amounts of nursing time—all while improving inmate care.”

With the system, Talyst places a freestanding, secure dispensing unit on-site at the correctional facility. Medication orders can be approved by a distant pharmacist, and immediately dispensed at the correctional facility. The automated system means no more waiting for the next delivery for STAT orders and, because it’s based on actual usage, it requires less medication inventory on-hand. Facilities using the InSite system have also demonstrated that it takes nursing staff a fraction of the time previously required to dispense medications.

Nationwide, a growing number of correctional facilities are implementing the InSite Remote Dispensing System. Parkland Jail Health in Dallas, TX; the Allegheny Correctional Health System in Pittsburgh, PA; and Westchester Medical Center in New York State are the latest facilities to begin implementing Talyst InSite for Corrections. Talyst announced the new implementations at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care conference, underway this week at the Flamingo Las Vegas.

A comprehensive solution
InSite for Corrections brings efficiency and greater control to medication storage, access and delivery processes in correctional facilities. Its components and capabilities include:

• Accurate order entry – InSite Prescriber Order Entry is designed to dramatically reduce transcription errors that lead to patient-safety risks
• Integrated patient information – InSite Pharmacy Information System automates the pharmacy operations to maximize efficiency and ensure patient safety
• Automated dispensing – The InSite Remote Dispensing System provides on-site, on-demand automation for preparing patient-specific oral medication doses


Link:eMedia Wire release
About Talyst
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, bar-coding, and clinical systems.

By 2009, Talyst had installed automated systems in close to 400 acute care hospitals and integrated healthcare companies. By leveraging our expertise in acute care pharmacy automation, we are now building unique systems designed specifically to meet the needs of long-term care facilities and correctional institutions. Talyst is dedicated to delivering world-class software and proven hardware components to enhance efficiency, provide greater inventory control, and improve patient safety in all environments. For more information, see www.talyst.com or call 877-4-Talyst (877-482-5978).


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