Benefits of Using the RASMAS Recall Management Service

RASMAS has patient safety benefits for organizations of all sizes Whether you are a rural hospital or a national enterprise, RASMAS is the web-based service that automates and streamlines alert management across all departments and facilities to ensure that alerts are processed quickly and properly.
Benefits of a RASAMAS Solution Through its ability to simultaneously streamline and strengthen the alert management process, RASMAS improves patient safety, lowers the administrative costs of responding to alerts, and reduces legal exposure which could result from a procedural failure. RASMAS delivers these benefits through its alert distribution, tracking, and delay detection and notification features:		Who will benefit from RASMAS? Free standing hospitals, regional health systems, national provider organizations, and clinic-only organizations can all use RASMAS. How RASMAS Helps Our full-time staff is devoted to finding and preparing alerts. This reduces the risk that health care organization staff, burdened with other responsibilities, will miss alerts. Alerts are released in a standardized format, reducing the time it takes for staff to read and understand alerts. All released alerts are permanently archived in a single web-based repository where they are always available. RASMAS provides robust hierarchal reporting to provide real-time insight into alert management processes facility by facility and from an organizational perspective.
	Improved Content and Readability of Alerts and Safety Notices: The National RASMAS Center uses advanced software and expert analysis to deliver easy-to-read, value-added alerts covering the full spectrum of health-related products used by healthcare delivery organizations.
	More Efficient Workflow Process: Individuals responsible for managing and responding to alerts receive the alerts that are relevant to them, take the appropriate action, and report on their actions through easily understood computer-based workflow screens. Johns Hopkins Health System reports an 80% decrease in staff time needed to process alerts.
	Active Management Control: Each subscriber specifies the expected time for individuals working on alerts to complete their assignment(s). Email notices are escalated up the management chain when there is a delay in the completetion of any assignment(s).
	Satisfaction of Audit and Reporting Requirements: Using a manual system, responding to audit requests by the FDA, JCAHO, or management can feel more like a fire drill than a request for information. With RASMAS, the details you need to respond are immediately accessible from any computer with internet access. A quick search for the alert and you can view all of the actions taken and can know everyone that was involved. Audits are simplified and require far less time or expense to get to the answers you need.
	Reduced Staff Cost: Rather than having alert management funnel through a single person or department, let RASMAS direct the alerts for you! By identifying the staff in your organization most familiar with the products associated to the RASMAS domain areas, RASMAS will automatically send the alerts directly to those with a "need to know". Time previously spent faxing, photo-copying and tracking down employees can now be focused on more productive activities.

RASMAS has patient safety benefits for organizations of all sizes