August 2009,
Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Case Cart and Point of Use solutions complete AtPar’s suite of supply chain modules
Lebanon, NH - AtPar Inc., a developer of mobile supply chain solutions for healthcare organizations, announced the launch of two new products designed to help hospitals and hospital systems reduce expenses. The addition of Case Cart and Point of Use, both of which focus on cutting operating room costs and increasing efficiency, augments AtPar’s suite comprehensive of supply chain modules. Both products are available now for hospitals seeking to streamline their supply chain operations.
AtPar’s Case Cart solution is designed to automate case cart operations. Commonly used in surgery, case carts are essentially shelving units that transport OR supplies to a surgical suite. Case carts are also often used to remove instruments and other products from the OR following a surgical case and transfer the items to a hospital’s sterile processing operation for re-sterilization.
According to Kishore Bala, the company’s director of sales and marketing, the AtPar Case Cart module “is a fully integrated system that automates the supply process for surgery, supports automated supply replenishment while at the same time providing an interface with a hospital’s materials management information system (MMIS) and billing system to expedite patient charges.”
Point of Use module offers multi-level supply chain aid. AtPar’s Point of Use module, the second new release, is also an efficient means of streamlining the supply chain as it relates to the operating room. Like Case Cart, Point of Use interfaces with a hospital’s MMIS and billing systems to both capture patient charges and smooth supply replenishment for stock, non-stock and consignment items.
Improved supply management at the nursing station is crucial to accurately record patient charges, reduce on-hand inventory, minimize stock-outs and improve patient care. Utilizing AtPar’s Point Of Use, the care provider uses a touch-screen device and a scanner to choose a patient and scan the items to be dispensed to that patient. Built on an open system-based architecture, Point-Of-Use helps track inventory in real-time, automates patient charge capture and frees care providers to devote more time to their patients.
“The two new modules present a unified tool to automate, simplify and manage all supply chain operations,” Bala said. “They bring seamless integration with Enterprise Materials Management Systems that empower users and increase productivity and workflow efficiency with easy-to-use applications at the point of activity.”
About AtPar, Inc.
The AtPar mobile supply chain product suite is a single solution delivering seamless integration with ERP systems and is designed to reduce time, cut implementation costs and “future-proof” a hospital’s supply chain operations. AtPar architecture is built on a standards-based, build-to-integrate approach that enables companies to rapidly wirelessly enable their enterprise supply chain management software. AtPar products, which are in use in more than 150 hospitals and hospital systems in 24 states, increase productivity and lower the cost structure for enterprise IT organizations by providing a unified, simplified and extensible architecture. AtPar’s Mobile Supply Chain Execution suite of products help organizations automate all operations related to materials management, inventory control, distribution and supply chain. AtPar offers an integrated suite of applications through wireless devices, providing an efficient way to bring the power of large enterprise systems to the handheld.
Based in Lebanon, NH, and founded by an enthusiastic young team of IT and healthcare industry professionals, AtPar Inc., which is privately held, began operations in 1999. For more information on the company and its suite of solutions see www.atparinc.com.
