CareFusion Expands Pyxis(R) Perioperative Solution...( ...),Health

SAN DIEGO, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CareFusion Corporation, the company that will become publicly traded following the planned spinoff of the clinical and medical products businesses of Cardinal Health, today announced it has expanded its Pyxis((R)) perioperative offerings that integrate with leading operating room information systems (ORIS), incorporate radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology(1) and include new services.

"Our Pyxis((R)) Perioperative Solutions provide hospitals with the technology and services necessary to help improve financial performance, increase operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance across both their perioperative and medical-surgical areas," said Rusty Frantz, general manager of Pyxis((R)) Perioperative Solutions for CareFusion. "By integrating our industry leading supply management platform with leading perioperative information systems and providing the value-added services that help enable our customers to achieve best practice, we are delivering a solution that can provide tremendous benefit across the hospital and healthcare system."

First-of-its-kind ORIS integration solution for improved workflow
By integrating Pyxis ProcedureStation(TM) system with a hospital's ORIS, CareFusion helps streamline workflow and improve revenue cycle management. The new offering automatically incorporates surgical supply information directly into patient records and increases preference card and case pick/costing accuracy, freeing nurses to spend less time on non-clinical activities and more time with patients. CareFusion's perioperative integration partners include Picis((R)), Surgical Information Systems (SIS), Epic, and others.

"By integrating our Pyxis ProcedureStation(TM) system and Picis OR Manager at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, overall implant charting time was reduced by an average of 5
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