Wooster Community Hospital Uses Imprivata Confirm ID for EPCS to Bolster Its CPOE Strategy

Patient safety has always been a top priority for Wooster Community Hospital. With Forward Advantage’s help, Wooster demonstrated this commitment back in 2009 when it became the first MEDITECH hospital in Ohio to achieve positive identification with CPOE. Since then, Forward Advantage has continued to work with the hospital to streamline clinical workflows and improve patient safety. In fact, the two recently teamed up on a new initiative to electronically prescribe controlled substances with the simplified authentication process from Imprivata Confirm ID™ for EPCS. Confirm ID compliments the hospital’s Imprivata OneSign single sign-on environment, also sold and implemented by Forward Advantage, to further streamline workflows for prescribing physicians. With its physicians on board, Wooster has made great strides with Meaningful Use compliance and is helping to combat the growing opioid epidemic associated with fraudulent prescriptions.

“Prior to Confirm ID, non-narcotics could be sent electronically, but narcotics had to be prescribed on paper,” says Eric Gasser, director of information systems at Wooster. “Physicians didn’t like having these separate workflows, so we implemented EPCS to encourage electronic prescribing. Our hospital is a leader in assuring patient safety and in addressing the opioid epidemic, and this allows physicians to safely prescribe prescriptions in a way that’s more satisfying to them and our patients. In fact, it’s been so effective and well-received that electronic prescribing is now mandated in our hospital.”