Sentry Helps 340B Stakeholders Take Charge of Compliance and Integrity

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - July 8, 2013 - PRLog -- DEERFIELD BEACH, FL—July 9, 2013—Sentry Data Systems will display its 340B expertise and data-driven focus on results as an exhibitor at the 17^th Annual 340B Coalition Conference from July 15–17 at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, D.C.

Visitors to Sentry’s booth can speak with Sentry professionals about taking charge of their 340B management through compliance, integrity and responsible use of the program. Sentry’s dedicated staff has years of experience with 340B and is prepared to help hospitals meet the challenges and complexities of 340B participation. Sentry offers the only 340B technology solutions that execute on a hospital’s Policies and Procedures and operate through a Rules-Based Enterprise Data Warehouse engine. This powerful data management infrastructure allows Sentry to help hospitals maintain compliance while also tracking all relevant pharmacy procurement activity for a full audit trail.

Sentry’s solutions are fluid, flexible and ready to adapt to any regulatory changes in the program. Sentry’s dedicated support staff contains 340B experts who are committed to providing stakeholders the required technology that helps them fulfill the intent of the 340B program and their safety net mission with compliance and integrity.  

Today's safety net hospital is faced with many financial challenges in tandem with the need to maintain the care for the nation's underserved populations. The 340B program was designed to benefit hospitals and other safety net providers in the effort “to stretch scarce Federal resources as far as possible, reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services,” as defined in 1 H.R. Rep. No. 102-384(II), at 12 (1992).

“The cornerstone of a successful 340B program is the Covered Entity’s ability to operate a program that tracks every eligible dispensation and provides all necessary documentation to validate compliance,” said Travis Leonardi, Sentry’s Founder and CEO. “Without the proper channels of compliance, a hospital’s 340B program is at risk. Sentry’s technology solutions were developed with the goal of enabling hospitals to access the intended 340B resources through responsible use of the program.”

Sentry was founded and is managed by pharmacists and healthcare professionals who are focused on meeting the specific and complex data needs of healthcare institutions involved in the 340B program. Because of Sentry’s focus, experience and audit-tested 340B solutions, more than 1,000 Covered Entities and Community/Outpatient pharmacies across the country use Sentry’s software to manage their 340B participation.  

Visit www.sentryds.com/events to find out more about Sentry’s activities at the 340B Coalition Conference and Sentry’s focus on helping 340B stakeholders achieve compliant program participation.

Sentry's technology offerings include Sentinel RCM (http://www.sentryds.com/products/sentinel-rcm/), a 340B mixed-use compliance management application, and Sentrex (http://www.sentryds.com/products/sentrex/), a Contract Pharmacy Solution. Both offerings meet the highest standards for healthcare data transfer with SSAE16 certification and are supported by multiple secure datacenters across the country.

As part of Sentry’s commitment to 340B stakeholders, Sentry’s booth will have copies available of two industry white papers – An Analysis of 340B Solutions (http://www.sentryds.com/sentry340b_audit/) and 340B Contract Pharmacies (http://www.sentryds.com/340b-contract-pharmacies). Combined, these papers provide education and guidance on the intricacies involved in the selection of a technology provider to assist with the management of the 340B program and the extended program benefit derived from enacting contract pharmacy relationships.

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About Sentry Data Systems

Located in Deerfield Beach, FL, Sentry Data Systems, Inc. is a healthcare intelligence company offering technology solutions that address a wide variety of workflow, compliance, technical and financial challenges. Sentry’s products serve hundreds of hospitals and pharmacies across the country and have saved clients millions of dollars on over 40 million patients to date. Sentry processes millions of eligibility, financial, clinical, and pharmacy transactions per day.

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