DeKalb Medical Center Hillandale Chooses Simplifi 797 for Cleanroom Compliance

PRLog (Press Release) - Aug. 15, 2011 - Bellevue, Wash. – Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale in Georgia has implemented Simplifi 797 quality assurance software to achieve sterile compounding compliance.

Simplifi 797 is a web-based application that automates, integrates and streamlines quality activities and documentation related to U.S. Pharmacopeia’s Chapter 797 guidelines. The software manages task scheduling for environmental monitoring and automates the reporting of exceptions and compliance.

“Simplifi 797 is helping the staff pay more attention to the tasks needing to be completed,” said Carmichael August-Moultrie, Manager of Pharmaceutical Services at DeKalb Medical Center Hillandale. “We not only use the Simplifi 797 tool to follow through on our cleanroom policies and procedures, but to follow through on other hospital pharmacy requirements.”

Simplifi 797 can help simplify meeting all of the requirements of the USP 797 best practice guidelines for compounding sites throughout the facility. It provides auto-notification by email of overdue tasks, exceptions, and out of range measurements.

“Simplifi 797 has helped with eliminating paper documentation process, and that is smiled upon, especially with our hospital trying to go green,” said August-Moultrie.

For more information visit www.simplifi797.com.

About DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale
DeKalb Medical at Hillandale is the newest campus of the DeKalb Medical Healthcare System. It is a not for profit acute care digital hospital which features: Advanced medical/surgical services, including 100 licensed acute care beds, an adult intensive care unit, a 24 hour emergency department that sees approximately 40,000 visits annually, and a state of the art rehabilitation and wellness services. The DeKalb Medical at Hillandale campus also includes two medical office buildings housing primary care and specialist physician offices.

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