Wolters Kluwer, Health, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that Option Care Health, Inc. (“Option Care Health”), the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, has expanded its use of Wolters Kluwer’s compounding compliance expert solutions for patient care across the United States. Option Care Health has long relied on Simplifi 797®, a comprehensive web-based quality management solution, to comply with increasingly stringent standards in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) general chapters <797> and <800> for preparing compounded sterile and hazardous medications to help ensure patients’ benefit and reduce risks such as contamination or infection.
Option Care Health is now expanding its use of Wolters Kluwer’s solutions to standardise training and promote nationwide adoption of best practices across its newly merged facilities to ensure staff and patient safety and maximise operational efficiency.
Option Care Health delivers advanced infusion medications, nursing support and seamless transitional care for patients of all ages. The organisation cares for 220,000 patients annually, providing infusion therapies as a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care.
Wolters Kluwer’s Simplifi 797 is a web-based quality management solution that streamlines and automates the complexities of USP <795>, <797> and <800> standards. With continuous monitoring and alerts of quality assurance plan deviations, Simplifi 797 provides the tools and resources needed to reduce the challenges associated with compliance of sterile, non-sterile and hazardous drug compounding. It includes policies and procedures, training and competency evaluations, customisable National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) drug formulary, and employee hazardous drug risk acknowledgment— everything compounding facilities need to streamline cleanroom operations, increase safety and mitigate risk throughout the compounding process and standardize practices across systems.
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