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CareFusion Expands Pyxis Perioperative Solutions Offering

CareFusion has expanded its Pyxis Perioperative offerings that integrate with operating room information systems (ORIS), incorporate radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, and include new services.

Rusty Frantz, general manager of Pyxis Perioperative Solutions for CareFusion, said: “Our Pyxis 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.

“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,” he added.

The company claims that by integrating Pyxis ProcedureStation 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. CareFusion’s perioperative integration partners include Picis, Surgical Information Systems, Epic, and others.