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Common Problem #1.
Hospitals receive thousands of recall notifications each year.
Today, hospitals must react to more than 5,000 product alerts from
the FDA alone. And alerts are issued for more than just medical supplies. They
cover products used in every corner of the hospital...high chairs
used in the pediatric wing, sprinkler systems located throughout the
facility, blood, surgical equipment, medications, and more. All are
subject to potential recall.
RASMAS Solution: RASMAS organizes alerts into 14 domains and lets you choose the domains that
impact your hospital.
Common Problem #2.
Alerts arrive from numerous sources in many different formats.
Product recalls are just one form of alerts that healthcare
organizations need to respond to. Alerts can also be field
corrections, bulletins and public health notifications. There is no
pattern or timeframe in which these alerts are delivered. They
arrive by fax, mail, phone, e-mail or Web sites, even from sales
representatives and they can arrive in any department of your
hospital.
RASMAS Solution:
The National RASMAS Center (NRC) employs full-time staff to find and prepare alerts for you. RASMAS has created a national repository of alerts and we deliver them in a
reliable, organized, standardized, and auditable format.
Common Problem #3.
Most health care organizations do not have effective procedures for managing alerts. If
your organization is still trying to manage product alerts through
photocopies, emails, faxes and sticky notes...then you and your
patients could be at risk for a costly procedural breakdown.
RASMAS Solution:
RASMAS provides an automated and auditable process for managing alerts. All alerts arrive in a standard format and all of the actions you take in handling the alert are recorded. Escalation notification features ensure that alerts are dealt with quickly and properly.
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Common Problem #4.
Managing alerts is staff intensive and expensive.
Alert management is designated as a part-time job in most healthcare organizations and
it is hard to track alerts issued from so many sources with limited resources.
RASMAS Solution:
RASMAS has a full-time staff that is devoted finding and preparing
alerts so your staff can concentrate on their other responsibilites without worrying about missing alerts.
Duplicate alerts are removed, and subscriber-specified filters indicate who is to receive an alert and eliminate irrelevant alerts.
This helps reduce staff time and costs because each person in the subscribing organization gets only the information that is relevant and applicable to them.
Common Problem #5.
It is difficult to respond to audit requests. When auditors want to know
how you responded it an alert, it is hard to remember and recreate all of your actions after
the fact.
RASMAS Solution:
RASMAS keeps a full history of all of the actions you took in responding to a product recall.
Plus, subscribers have access to a library of reports that provide
improved insight into their organization's alert-handling processes.
With RASMAS, responding to an FDA, JCAHO, or other audit request simply requires
printing the alert record, thereby reducing the cost to respond to the
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