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A healthy future

Caregivers strive to keep patients safe and comfortable throughout the continuum of care—and to keep processes and information flowing smoothly. While each specialty area presents unique challenges, innovative technologies from CareFusion provide vital support where they need it most. These well-recognized products and technologies help clinicians improve medication safety, prevent infections, make procedures cost effective and enhance respiratory care. Together, they help provide caregivers the confidence they need to create a healthy future for their patients—and their hospitals. These are our customers’ voices. And this is how they are using market-leading technologies and actionable intelligence to address healthcare’s toughest challenges.

I need more time with my patients.

I need to keep mylights on.

I help the most critical patients.

I need my devicesto talk.

My med system needs a remedy.

My targetis zero.

My OR runs on efficiency.

Caregivers strive to keep patients safe and comfortable throughout the continuum of care—and to keep processes and information flowing smoothly. While each specialty area presents unique challenges, innovative technologies from CareFusion provide vital support where they need it most. These well-recognized products and technologies help clinicians improve medication safety, prevent infections, make procedures cost effective and enhance respiratory care. Together, they help provide caregivers the confidence they need to create a healthy future for their patients—and their hospitals. These are our customers’ voices. And this is how they are using market-leading technologies and actionable intelligence to address healthcare’s toughest challenges.

Managing our bottom line gets tougher every year. It’s already a struggle to keep operating margins in the black and find capital to fund IT and other investments. As I look ahead, I have to plan for more patients coming through the doors—and the possibility of lower reimbursement that could cost us millions. That’s why I’m so focused on driving as much cost out of our system as I can. It’s a constant battle, but we’re finding new ways to reduce inventory, simplify workflow, optimize revenue cycle management and help target adverse events.

—Chief Operating Officer

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I need to keep mylights on.

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Stop wasting time and materials.

Find ways to cut costs.

Boost revenues and profits.

With change on the horizon, hospitals seek new

solutions that make operations more efficient and

less costly. At a time when 30% of hospitals report

negative operating margins,1 administrators expect

investments to deliver measurable returns. By combining

market-leading technologies with actionable intelligence,

CareFusion gives hospital administrators effective tools

to help increase margins and manage risk.

Accurate billing. Clinicians can spend hours

documenting patient information—and still fail

to capture all of their supply charges. By enabling

interoperability between the hospital’s supply

automation solution (Pyxis ProcedureStation™ system)

and its OR information management system, CareFusion

can help hospitals improve financial performance

and workflow.

Manage risk. Studies show that each preventable adverse

drug event costs hospitals $8,750.2 Alaris® smart pumps help

protect patients—and balance sheets—from the effects of

adverse drug events. Over a five-year period, one hospital

averted nearly $4 million in costs and generated a return

of $1.8 million on its Alaris products investment.3

Reduce costs. In many markets, hospitals compete

vigorously for patients based on cost and quality of the

specialty procedures they perform. With the AVAmax®

system, hospitals have a single, affordable solution to

treat patients with vertebral fractures, performing either

vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty at a lower cost. By reducing

costs up to 25%, hospitals and outpatient centers can help

patients—and still maintain solid margins.

Pyxis® supply technologies give nurses the power to chart, charge and reorder with the touch ofa button.

The Alaris System’s intravenous safety systems help ensure accurate programming of patient-controlled analgesic devices and monitor each patient’s unique response to high- risk medications.

With the AVAmax system, CareFusion has redefined spinal procedures by delivering all materials in fully integrated procedure trays

and customized handle/stylet kits.

“There’s nothing better thanknowing that charges are more accurate and you are getting paid for all the good work you’re doing.”

Mary OetkenChief of Financial Reporting and Budgeting Memorial Hermann TMC

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Stop wasting time and materials.

Find ways to cut costs.

Boost revenues and profits.

With change on the horizon, hospitals seek new

solutions that make operations more efficient and

less costly. At a time when 30% of hospitals report

negative operating margins,1 administrators expect

investments to deliver measurable returns. By combining

market-leading technologies with actionable intelligence,

CareFusion gives hospital administrators effective tools

to help increase margins and manage risk.

Accurate billing. Clinicians can spend hours

documenting patient information—and still fail

to capture all of their supply charges. By enabling

interoperability between the hospital’s supply

automation solution (Pyxis ProcedureStation™ system)

and its OR information management system, CareFusion

can help hospitals improve financial performance

and workflow.

Manage risk. Studies show that each preventable adverse

drug event costs hospitals $8,750.2 Alaris® smart pumps help

protect patients—and balance sheets—from the effects of

adverse drug events. Over a five-year period, one hospital

averted nearly $4 million in costs and generated a return

of $1.8 million on its Alaris products investment.3

Reduce costs. In many markets, hospitals compete

vigorously for patients based on cost and quality of the

specialty procedures they perform. With the AVAmax®

system, hospitals have a single, affordable solution to

treat patients with vertebral fractures, performing either

vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty at a lower cost. By reducing

costs up to 25%, hospitals and outpatient centers can help

patients—and still maintain solid margins.

Pyxis® supply technologies give nurses the power to chart, charge and reorder with the touch ofa button.

The Alaris System’s intravenous safety systems help ensure accurate programming of patient-controlled analgesic devices and monitor each patient’s unique response to high- risk medications.

With the AVAmax system, CareFusion has redefined spinal procedures by delivering all materials in fully integrated procedure trays

and customized handle/stylet kits.

Automating the surgical supply chain improves operations—and adds $13 million in revenue.4

Hospitals depend on their operating rooms to contribute as much as 50%5 of their

annual revenues. And given the rising cost of supplies, implants and medical devices,

they need efficient supply chains to reduce variable costs and improve margins.

With support from CareFusion, Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare

System established a progressive program in its operating rooms to automate and

standardize supply chain processes. Each of its 11 hospital operating rooms installed

Pyxis SupplyStation® automated point-of-use supply cabinets, all connected to a

Pyxis SupplyCenter server that routes and manages supply and patient data. Today,

Memorial Hermann continues to harvest returns far beyond its capital investment. In

2010, it generated approximately $67 million by capturing additional charges. Net

revenue has increased by $13 million. And since 2007, gross revenue per 100 surgical

minutes has risen by 37%.

Artist illustration

On the surface, our job seems simple enough: Make sure patients get their medications as quickly, efficiently and accurately as possible. But there’s a lot of pressure—and no margin for error. We send out thousands of doses a day—through several different dispensing pathways. And for all that to work smoothly, we need to manage inventory, create unit doses, refill dispensing cabinets and keep narcotics secure. On top of that, we review all new orders, respond to stat requests and somehow find time to spend with patients and clinicians. We need technologies to help manage this complex process. —Pharmacist

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My med system needs a remedy.

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Make my inventory easy to track.

Give me greater access to my patients’ meds.

Help me manage risks and avoid errors.

Hospital pharmacies are busy, fast-paced operations. They

depend on disciplined processes and efficient workflows to

keep medications moving and keep clinicians and patients

satisfied. With so many variables, pharmacists rely on

technology and data to help protect all medication types at

all points of care. Strategically stocked automated dispensing

machines streamline ordering, reduce stat order turnaround

time and time to first dose to help prevent medication

errors. Pharmacists can rely on a single, integrated system

that houses their drug library and monitors system-wide risk

and safety management processes. Additional technologies

help meet regulatory requirements by securely storing

and monitoring controlled substances, and by eliminating

time-consuming recordkeeping. Together, these and other

CareFusion solutions deliver efficiency, control and savings

to every stage of medication management.

Reduce stock-outs. Empower nurses to deliver accurate

doses on time by creating a closed-loop system that

establishes efficient par levels and tracks medications from

the pharmacy to the patient’s bedside. The Pyxis MedStation™

system gives nurses fast, secure access to up to 95%5 of the

medications they dispense, so they can deliver medications

without delay.

Improve workflow. Access actionable data that help

identify and improve refill errors, make staff more

productive and improve turnaround times, repositioning

full-time technicians to focus on higher-value activities.

Control inventory. Gain greater visibility into every

distribution channel and gather all the information

necessary to reduce inventory costs, safeguard controlled

substances and uncover patterns of medication risk.

With the Pyxis PARx® system,

technicians use handheld scanners when they pick and check medications to help ensure they deliver the right medications to each Pyxis MedStation device.

PHACTS reduces the time technicians spend repackaging medications into barcoded unit doses, so they can focus on other patient needs.

The Pyxis CIISafe™ system helps hospital pharmacies meet regulatory requirements by facilitating and managing controlled substances. Pharmacists spend less time on documentation and have easy access to accurate, real-time data that helps them quickly spot discrepancies.

I do my best and most important work at the patient’s bedside. But each time I begin a new shift, other duties pull me in different directions. Admissions are up, so I spend more time charting and documenting—and more time walking between supply stations to rooms. Each patient has different devices I need to know and manage. And every time I have a free minute, a patient rings a call button. I wish I had fewer things to think about, so I could give my patients the attention they need and the care they deserve.

—Intensive Care Unit Nurse

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I need more time with my patients.

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Help me avoid mistakes.

Give me information I can act on.

Make my job less stressful.

Patient care generates a wealth of data, and nurses play

a critical role in collecting and processing it. As new

technologies produce more information and regulations

call for more documentation, data administration can

consume as much as 35%6 of clinicians’ time. Nurses

experience less time pressure when they can rely on

CareFusion technology to capture, organize and review

information at the point of care.

Bedside defense. Nurses represent the last critical

line of defense against medication errors. Yet studies

show that 41%7 of errors occur when medications are

administered to the wrong patient, in the wrong dose,

at the wrong time or through an incorrect route or rate.

The Pyxis Med Administration Verification application helps

close the medication delivery loop. Other point-of-care

solutions include Pyxis Transfusion Verification, Pyxis Infant

Care Verification and Pyxis Specimen Collection Verification.

Early warning. Nurses administer complex medication

regimens that can affect patients in different and often

unpredictable ways. And when problems arise, they need

to know which variables to address. Working behind the

scenes, the Pyxis Advisor automated surveillance service

monitors therapy against evidence-based rules and

consolidates data from multiple sources to give nurses

easy access to real-time data.

Improved efficiencies. Nurses often monitor multiple

patients who are undergoing both continuous and

intermittent infusions of potentially harmful medications.

Guardrails® software helps them focus by saving time,

simplifying procedures and reducing errors at the point

of care. And when a patient’s condition suddenly changes,

the system alerts nurses so they can intervene quickly

to address potential adverse drug events.

Guardrails Suite MX software provides a safety net for clinicians and patients at the point of care, including a testof reasonableness for initial and titration programming.

Patients with traumatic brain injuries require close and continuous monitoring and early intervention when neurological signals change. The Nicolet™ Monitor gives ICU nurses and clinicians data to assess neurological functions, identify and respond to major events and track the progress of neonatal to adult patients.

Pyxis Advisor sends patient- specific reports directly to the Pyxis MedStation system to alert caregivers of changing patient conditions and potential adverse drug events.

“Everything the nurses thought that the Alaris System would be, it truly is. It’s not just a ‘bag full of promises.’ We haven’t just made a purchase—we’ve developed a partnership.”Judy PetermanDirector of Critical Care Services St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System

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Help me avoid mistakes.

Give me information I can act on.

Make my job less stressful.

Patient care generates a wealth of data, and nurses play

a critical role in collecting and processing it. As new

technologies produce more information and regulations

call for more documentation, data administration can

consume as much as 35%6 of clinicians’ time. Nurses

experience less time pressure when they can rely on

CareFusion technology to capture, organize and review

information at the point of care.

Bedside defense. Nurses represent the last critical

line of defense against medication errors. Yet studies

show that 41%7 of errors occur when medications are

administered to the wrong patient, in the wrong dose,

at the wrong time or through an incorrect route or rate.

The Pyxis Med Administration Verification application helps

close the medication delivery loop. Other point-of-care

solutions include Pyxis Transfusion Verification, Pyxis Infant

Care Verification and Pyxis Specimen Collection Verification.

Early warning. Nurses administer complex medication

regimens that can affect patients in different and often

unpredictable ways. And when problems arise, they need

to know which variables to address. Working behind the

scenes, the Pyxis Advisor automated surveillance service

monitors therapy against evidence-based rules and

consolidates data from multiple sources to give nurses

easy access to real-time data.

Improved efficiencies. Nurses often monitor multiple

patients who are undergoing both continuous and

intermittent infusions of potentially harmful medications.

Guardrails® software helps them focus by saving time,

simplifying procedures and reducing errors at the point

of care. And when a patient’s condition suddenly changes,

the system alerts nurses so they can intervene quickly

to address potential adverse drug events.

Guardrails Suite MX software provides a safety net for clinicians and patients at the point of care, including a testof reasonableness for initial and titration programming.

Patients with traumatic brain injuries require close and continuous monitoring and early intervention when neurological signals change. The Nicolet™ Monitor gives ICU nurses and clinicians data to assess neurological functions, identify and respond to major events and track the progress of neonatal to adult patients.

Pyxis Advisor sends patient- specific reports directly to the Pyxis MedStation system to alert caregivers of changing patient conditions and potential adverse drug events.

Hospital’s smart IV infusion safety system averts 686 medication errors and eliminates $4 million in potential costs in first year.8

Over the years, patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) therapy has been a double-edged sword for patients and hospitals. Even as it empowers millions of patients to control their pain, it also creates safety risks for patients—and financial risks for hospitals. Adverse drug reactions caused by IV programming errors or over-sedation can lead to complications that increase length-of-stay and prolong patient recovery time.

To control these risks, St. Joseph’s /Candler Health System in Savannah, Georgia implemented a smart IV infusion safety system. New processes make it easy for nurses to program infusion devices at the point of care by reading reformulated IV drug labels that include total volume and precise dose (units/kg/hour). Nurses can also access trending data at the bedside by consulting easy-to-read pulse oximetry and capnography monitors integrated with PCA devices.

In the first year of the program, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) data from 558 expanded safety systems documented 686 averted errors. These include 90 in the highest risk category—or 450 when projected over a five-year period—plus an additional 35 undesirable outcomes averted over this same period by respiratory monitoring modules. At a cost of $8,750 per preventable ADE, the system prevented approximately $4 million in potential costs and generated up to an 81% return after deducting total purchase costs.

Artist illustration

Every time I place a patient on a ventilator, I am aware of the responsibility placed in my hands. But if I do my job well, they will be in synchrony with the ventilator and potentially be weaned sooner. My priority is to ensure the ventilator settings are appropriate, comfortable and protect the patient from further injury. And new technologies keep me aware of optimal settings and also help us monitor our results. By showing we are using best practices and adhering to our protocols, we are enhancing patient care and avoiding complications of mechanical ventilation. —Respiratory Therapist

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I help critical patients.

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Alert me to critical changes.

Ventilate appropriately.

Help my patients stay safe.

Ventilation is a high-risk therapy that requires appropriate

protocols, rigorous monitoring and decisions based on data.

During transport, therapists must take every precaution

to reduce the risk of interrupting ventilation or opening

the ventilator circuit. As critical care begins, physicians and

therapists rely on ventilation strategies that are appropriate

for each patient’s underlying injury or disease state. And

from the time ventilation is initiated, careful monitoring

enables therapists to minimize time on the ventilator, so

patients can be weaned as safely and quickly as possible.

CareFusion gives therapists the tools they need to monitor

each patient’s progress.

Safe travel. Transporting ICU ventilator patients exposes

them to safety risks that can lead to costly complications.

Portable ventilators, like the EnVe™ ventilator, can be moved

along with the patient to reduce the risk that the circuit may

be broken and ICU ventilation is not interrupted. Patients

receive continuous ventilation and the clinicians save steps

with an enhanced workflow.

Better visibility. Ventilation therapy leaves little margin for

error, and therapists need equipment they can trust. BiCore™

technology (Advanced Pulmonary Mechanics), available on the

AVEA® ventilator, integrates multiple diagnostics into a single

monitor that provides information to guide the clinician on the

optimal settings for patient comfort and faster weaning. AVEA

and VELA® ventilators also use the same Simple Touch™ user

interface so clinician training is simplified and the potential for

user error is minimzed.

Tender care. Neonatal patients have fragile lungs, and

noninvasive ventilation with low work of breathing provides

lung protection until they can breathe without support.

Until then, nurses and therapists can rely on the advanced,

integrated monitoring of CareFusion ventilators and safety

alarms to watch them carefully.

The Infant Flow® SiPAP system provides flexible settings and controls, so fragile patients can receive safe and responsive treatment.

EnVe critical care ventilators deliver high-end invasive or noninvasive ventilation and comprehensive monitoring through a single, miniature unit.

The transpulmonary pressure monitoring technology used in the AVEA ventilator has demonstrated a reduction in days of mechanical ventilation by as much as 30%.9

Fighting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) takes passion and agility. I consider myself a champion of safety for patients, their families and our staff, and I’m relentless when it comes to educating them on preventive best practices. But I’m also a problem solver. These days, more patients are admitted with drug-resistant infections. I need to stay on top of microbiology reports and medical records, and make sure these infections don’t spread. Fortunately, I have many surveillance tools in my arsenal, and the data they produce is a powerful ally. These tools help me protect my patients—and my hospital’s bottom line. —Director of Infection Control

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My target is zero.

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ChloraPrep® skin preparation applicators apply the widely recommended antiseptic thatreduces microorganisms on skin that can cause infection.

With MedMined data mining surveillance services, specialists can access real-time data that identifies clinical patterns and broken processes, tracksperformance against HAI reduction goals and simplifies mandatory reporting.

MaxGuard® needleless connectors with antimicrobial technology may inhibit the growth of microorganisms on the surfaces of the device.

Give me early warnings.

Provide best- practice training.

Reduce infectionsto zero.

Healthcare-associated infections come in many shapes

and sizes—from UTI to SSI, MRSA infections to catheter-

related bloodstream infections. Once they take hold,

these infections spread in many ways—from patients’

skin to surgical wounds, via clinician to patient contact or

contaminated IV connections and lines. Complex problems

like infections call for comprehensive and proven solutions.

Proactive prevention. In U.S. hospitals, approximately 5%

of all patients acquire an infection during their stay. With so

many infection sources and types to manage, hospitals need

aggressive strategies to protect their patients and manage

their risks. Continuing education is critical in the path to

zero. To date, CareFusion has supported WebMD’s Medscape

to provide more than 160,000 clinicians with educational

programs in infection prevention to help implement best

practices and keep patients safe.

Early intervention. The faster infection teams identify

a source of an infection, the quicker they can limit the

impact. MedMined™ data mining surveillance services help

infection prevention teams identify areas of high potential

for infection and provide timely data to identify patterns

and problem areas.

Measurable progress. Catheters are a major source of

dangerous bloodstream infections that can extend hospital

stays by 10 to 14 days10 on average, and many patients never

recover. Regulations will soon require hospitals to monitor

and report infection rates, and hospitals can submit data

from MedMined data mining surveillance services to satisfy

reporting requirements.

“My goal has always been zero infections and now everybody is onboard with me thinking, ‘How low can we go?’”

Anne Dikon Director of Infection PreventionRobert Wood Johnson Hospital

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ChloraPrep® skin preparation applicators apply the widely recommended antiseptic thatreduces microorganisms on skin that can cause infection.

With MedMined data mining surveillance services, specialists can access real-time data that identifies clinical patterns and broken processes, tracksperformance against HAI reduction goals and simplifies mandatory reporting.

MaxGuard® needleless connectors with antimicrobial technology may inhibit the growth of microorganisms on the surfaces of the device.

Give me early warnings.

Provide best- practice training.

Reduce infectionsto zero.

Healthcare-associated infections come in many shapes

and sizes—from UTI to SSI, MRSA infections to catheter-

related bloodstream infections. Once they take hold,

these infections spread in many ways—from patients’

skin to surgical wounds, via clinician to patient contact or

contaminated IV connections and lines. Complex problems

like infections call for comprehensive and proven solutions.

Proactive prevention. In U.S. hospitals, approximately 5%

of all patients acquire an infection during their stay. With so

many infection sources and types to manage, hospitals need

aggressive strategies to protect their patients and manage

their risks. Continuing education is critical in the path to

zero. To date, CareFusion has supported WebMD’s Medscape

to provide more than 160,000 clinicians with educational

programs in infection prevention to help implement best

practices and keep patients safe.

Early intervention. The faster infection teams identify

a source of an infection, the quicker they can limit the

impact. MedMined™ data mining surveillance services help

infection prevention teams identify areas of high potential

for infection and provide timely data to identify patterns

and problem areas.

Measurable progress. Catheters are a major source of

dangerous bloodstream infections that can extend hospital

stays by 10 to 14 days10 on average, and many patients never

recover. Regulations will soon require hospitals to monitor

and report infection rates, and hospitals can submit data

from MedMined data mining surveillance services to satisfy

reporting requirements.

Hospital’s surveillance program helps lower infection rates by up to 80%.11

In 2008, hospital officials at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital established an ambitious goal: Reduce to zero healthcare-associated infections that were endangering patents, increasing the length of hospital stays and subtracting millions from their bottom line. There was just one problem. The hospital lacked the reliable data it would need to identify risks, standardize treatments and track results. MedMined data mining surveillance services from CareFusion helped clinicians bring infection rates under control. The hospital now takes cultures from hospitalized patients, processes the results in-house and feeds the data into the MedMined system. Aggregated data then flows to the infection prevention department, where they identify trends and patterns and develop targeted strategies to respond. In two years, the hospital’s multidisciplinary program saved 460 patients from infection, reduced hospital stays by 3,500 days, lowered the infection rate by up to 80% and generated $1.62 million in bottom-line savings.

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In my operating room, time is money. Simply put, the less time we spend on redundant activities and manual processes, the more procedures we can schedule and perform. And the better job we do of capturing charges for supplies and devices, the more profitable we become. But in the end, it’s all about successful outcomes. That means creating a consistent environment where surgeons and clinicians can do their best work—and where patients get the protection and attention they need. I love the challenge of making sure we do both equally well—in a high-pressure, high-speed environment with lots of challenging variables to control. —OR Manager

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My OR runs on efficiency.

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Help me track performance.

Give me flexibility and control.

Free up clinical time.

Operating room directors face a tough balancing act.

They oversee complex and high-cost surgical supply

chains. They schedule staff and procedures to maximize

efficiency and manage workflow to ensure consistency and

precision. They maintain a safe and sterile environment to

protect patients and staff. And they measure performance

relentlessly—everything from revenue trends to inventory

carrying costs to infection rates to regulatory compliance.

CareFusion helps bring all these processes together with

integrated systems that improve efficiency and support

successful outcomes. Our proven technologies and solutions

help boost financial performance, streamline workflow

and facilitate regulatory compliance.

Precise performance. Laparoscopic surgeons choose

high-performance instruments that give them clear vision

and the flexibility and control to work at difficult angles.

For more than 110 years, surgeons have trusted V. Mueller®

surgical instruments for quality and first-rate technology.

Enhanced safety. Post-surgery skin infections can lead to

serious complications—and significant costs. Clinicians can

reduce this risk by incorporating best clinical practices.

Enhanced supply management. Surgical nurses often

waste valuable time manually entering surgical supply

information into patient records. The Pyxis ProcedureStation

system with ORIS integration automates this process,

allowing nurses to spend less time on non-clinical activities

and more time on patient care.

V. Mueller and Snowden-Pencer® surgical instruments are designed by surgeons to deliver exceptional performance during a broad range of invasive and minimally invasive procedures. The IMPRESS® system can increase on-time delivery of fully sterilized instruments and help reduce flash sterilization.

The Pyxis SupplyStation system improves workflow and reduces errors by enabling OR staff to document supply usage in real time.

ChloraPrep skin antiseptic acts fast on a broad spectrum of bacteria and keeps fighting bacterial growth for

at least 48 hours.12

We spend millions on the latest technologies. And between all these medical devices and our clinicians, we generate a mountain of data. But what good is data if it’s not accurate, or if it doesn’t reach the people who need it, or if it doesn’t tell the complete story? I’m working to change that. In a perfect world, all the devices we use would collect their own information automatically. They would connect very simply to our HIT system. And we could cut and dice it and distribute it in real time, so it’s available at the point of care. That’s clearly the direction healthcare is moving, and I’m trying to keep us a step ahead. —Director of Information Technology

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I need my devices to talk.

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Make patient data easy to find.

Help me connect the dots.

Show me the bigger picture.

Hospital information technology (HIT) infrastructures

should do much more than collect and distribute patient

and financial data. With the right tools in place, they

help measurably improve patient safety, clinical protocols,

workflow, regulatory reporting and bottom-line results.

CareFusion is bridging the gap between medical devices

and HIT systems by providing an architecture to connect our

portfolio of critical care devices to one another—and pull all

their data into a central repository that connects seamlessly

with the HIT system. Hospitals can also zero in on their key

performance indicators and apply CareFusion surveillance

and analytics technology to uncover patterns and trends.

Clinicians and administrators benefit from information they

can act on, with minimal IT support required.

Actionable intelligence. Caregivers depend on accurate,

timely information to make critical treatment decisions, and

information gaps can put clinicians—and their patients—at

risk. CareFusion transmits, hosts, manages and archives data

collected by our medical devices so clinicians can access it

easily through the HIT system.

Seamless connections. Medical devices collect information

that is valuable to many hospital departments. The CareFusion

Coordination Engine provides an asynchronous data transfer

(ADT) architecture feed for medical devices so admissions,

pharmacy, materials management, billing, operating

room, information systems and medical records can share

information through a single interface.

Timely reports. Hospitals face increased pressure to

improve their own performance and collect accurate

data around Meaningful Use and American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act requirements. CareFusion surveillance and

analytics services pull information from HIT systems and apply

evidence-based rules to measure data that can be analyzed

around infection rates, infusion errors, drug utilization rates

and charge capture.

The CareFusion Knowledge Portal stores critical patient and administrative data on a secure external server that leaves no IT footprint. There’s no IT footprint or data overload because we take care of all the data transmission, hosting, management and archiving.

The CareFusion Coordination Engine enables medical devices to exchange messages with one another, with hospital departments and with MedMined data mining surveillance services.

Multi-hospital health systems and group purchasing organizations use CareFusion data to benchmark the performance of individual facilities based on key performance indicators for safety, cost, productivity and compliance.

“The bottom line is that because of ORIS integration, nurses in the OR can do their jobs more effectively, more efficiently and with more accurate documentation. That means they save time and, ultimately, they can spend more time at the patient bedside.”

Marylee Riggio, RNDirector of Surgical ServicesBeaufort Memorial Hospital

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Make patient data easy to find.

Help me connect the dots.

Show me the bigger picture.

Hospital information technology (HIT) infrastructures

should do much more than collect and distribute patient

and financial data. With the right tools in place, they

help measurably improve patient safety, clinical protocols,

workflow, regulatory reporting and bottom-line results.

CareFusion is bridging the gap between medical devices

and HIT systems by providing an architecture to connect our

portfolio of critical care devices to one another—and pull all

their data into a central repository that connects seamlessly

with the HIT system. Hospitals can also zero in on their key

performance indicators and apply CareFusion surveillance

and analytics technology to uncover patterns and trends.

Clinicians and administrators benefit from information they

can act on, with minimal IT support required.

Actionable intelligence. Caregivers depend on accurate,

timely information to make critical treatment decisions, and

information gaps can put clinicians—and their patients—at

risk. CareFusion transmits, hosts, manages and archives data

collected by our medical devices so clinicians can access it

easily through the HIT system.

Seamless connections. Medical devices collect information

that is valuable to many hospital departments. The CareFusion

Coordination Engine provides an asynchronous data transfer

(ADT) architecture feed for medical devices so admissions,

pharmacy, materials management, billing, operating

room, information systems and medical records can share

information through a single interface.

Timely reports. Hospitals face increased pressure to

improve their own performance and collect accurate

data around Meaningful Use and American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act requirements. CareFusion surveillance and

analytics services pull information from HIT systems and apply

evidence-based rules to measure data that can be analyzed

around infection rates, infusion errors, drug utilization rates

and charge capture.

The CareFusion Knowledge Portal stores critical patient and administrative data on a secure external server that leaves no IT footprint. There’s no IT footprint or data overload because we take care of all the data transmission, hosting, management and archiving.

The CareFusion Coordination Engine enables medical devices to exchange messages with one another, with hospital departments and with MedMined data mining surveillance services.

Multi-hospital health systems and group purchasing organizations use CareFusion data to benchmark the performance of individual facilities based on key performance indicators for safety, cost, productivity and compliance.

Integration makes OR a high-performance operation.13

Administrators at Beaufort Memorial Hospital have never been shy about embracing new technology. In 2007, they saw an opportunity to make their operating rooms more efficient and ultimately more profitable, and turned to CareFusion for help. Working with a multidisciplinary team, they mapped existing processes to identify bottlenecks. It was determined which issues to address through process change and where to apply information technology. Beaufort achieved the biggest boost when CareFusion built a bridge between two disparate information systems: the Pyxis ProcedureStation system used to store and manage OR supplies, and the Picis OR Manager used for clinical documentation. This integrated Operating Room Information System (ORIS) now supports a number of improved workflow patterns. For example, instead of calculating supply costs manually, the OR staff now relies on the information system to close out the billing for each outgoing case while they prepare the room for the next procedure.

Today, Beaufort has reduced overall supply picking and documentation time by 62%, an average of 10.9 minutes per case. Staff spends 50% less time managing and reconciling supplies on the back-end. And profits have increased substantially. The OR now handles more procedures and captures far more charges for surgical supplies and devices than ever before.

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Thank you CareFusion. My lights are on. My meds are managed. My patients get more time with me. Critical patients get my attention. Patients have been prepped. My OR is a safe OR. And my devices are connected.

Around the world, over 25,000 customers in more than 130 countries turn to CareFusion for help. We’re on the frontline of healthcare every day, helping eliminate thousands of medication errors and healthcare-associated infections, saving millions of dollars and improving clinical efficiencies.

To learn more, visit carefusion.com/ourvision.

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4 Memorial Herman case study. Individual results may vary.

5 Baker J, Draves M, Ramudhin A. Analysis of the Medication Management System in Seven Hospitals. Cardinal Health.

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8 St. Joseph’s Candler Health System case study. Available upon request. Individual results may vary.

9 Courtney SE, Durand DJ, Asselin JM, et al. High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation Versus Conventional Mechanical Ventilation for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants. N Engl J Med, 2002, 347:643-52.

10 CDC. Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. MMWR 2002, 51(No. RR-10).

11 Robert Wood Johnson Hospital case study. Available upon request. Individual results may vary.

12 Hibbard JS, Mulberry GK, Brady AR. A clinical study comparing the skin antisepsis and safety of ChloraPrep, 70% isopropyl alcohol, and 2% aqueous chlorhexidine. J Infus Nurs, Jul-Aug 2002; 25(4):244-9.

13 Beaufort Memorial Hospital case study. Available upon request. Individual results may vary.

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