Recent News: CareFusion Expands Pyxis® Perioperative Solutions Offering

Company Unveils New Products and Services to Improve Supply Management and Streamline Workflow at the 47th Annual AHRMM Conference

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 20, 2009 -- CareFusion Corporation , the company that will become publicly traded following the planned spinoff of the clinical and medical products businesses of Cardinal Health, today announced it has expanded its Pyxis® perioperative offerings that integrate with leading operating room information systems (ORIS), incorporate radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology1 and include new services.

“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,” said Rusty Frantz, general manager of Pyxis® Perioperative Solutions for CareFusion.  “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.”

First-of-its-kind ORIS integration solution for improved workflow
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, freeing nurses to spend less time on non-clinical activities and more time with patients. CareFusion’s perioperative integration partners include Picis®, Surgical Information Systems (SIS), Epic, and others.

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