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Alert! Alert!
Managing product and safety alerts can be a real pain for healthcare organizations. First of all, there are thousands of them. They arrive from multiple sources in multiple formats. And many facilities use paper-based processes that can create information logjams and even endanger patient safety.
The Noblis Center for Health Innovation's Risk and Safety Management Alert System offers an alternative for hospitals looking to streamline their product recall management. RASMAS is a Web-based subscription service that provides notification, distribution and management of product alerts and recalls for all products used in healthcare organizations. The service organizes alerts into specific categories and puts them into a standard format; the system also eliminates duplicate alerts and records all actions taken by a provider in response to an alert.
Read more at http://info.rasmas.noblis.org/index.html.
-Jay Moore

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