FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp. and Noblis To Offer A Complete Endto-
End Solution For Pharmaceutical Product Recalls
Pharmacists now have an efficient and easy way to receive, track, manage, and return pharmaceutical product recalls
FREMONT, CA and FALLS CHURCH, VA — March 15, 2010 — EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp., a leader in the pharmaceutical reverse distribution industry, and Noblis, Inc., the provider of the RASMAS recall management service, have combined forces to offer a best-in-class solution for managing and removing recalled pharmaceutical products from the healthcare supply chain. Recall management is a weighty responsibility considering patient safety, liability, waste regulations, and credit receipt issues. Pharmacists now have the ability to utilize one automated solution as EXP provides a Comprehensive Recall Solution that is powered by RASMAS. RASMAS is a simple-to-use, web-based service that provides comprehensive notification, distribution, and management of product alerts and recalls for all healthcare and consumer products used in healthcare facilities. RASMAS proactively disseminates recall notifications and has an automated online workflow program. With EXP, all pharmaceutical recalls are properly handled from initial recall notification through final disposition and credit attainment. In addition, pharmacists have an easy-to-access recall summary document that outlines all the efforts taken every step of the way.
“Our primary mission is to help our customers improve the pharmaceutical recall process and make their world more efficient,” said EXP’s CEO Gus Changaris. “Working with Noblis and their RASMAS service is a natural fit with our mission. Our Comprehensive Recall Solution will not only reduce the likelihood of a pharmacy recall being missed, but it also will reduce the overall cycle time from an alert or recall being issued as well as documenting the entire recall process.”
EXP provides reverse distribution services for the return and destruction of expired and recalled pharmaceuticals. EXP serves hospital, government, independent retail, chain-store, clinic, veterinarian, and long-term-care pharmacies. Today, EXP is providing on-site returns and consulting services to nearly 70 percent of all U.S. hospitals.
“We are constantly looking for innovative solutions that advance patient safety,” said Diane Hartingh Price, Noblis Health Innovation Director. “Driving patient safety by removing defective products as quickly as possible from the entire supply chain is one of our primary goals. By combining RASMAS with EXP, we are able to dramatically reduce the total number of days a patient is at risk from a recalled product.”
For more information about EXP’s Comprehensive Recall Solution, please call 800-350-0397 or visit us on the web at www.expworld.com.
About EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp.
EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp. provides reverse distribution services for the return and destruction of expired and unwanted pharmaceuticals. EXP is the leading member of the pharmaceutical reverse distribution industry specializing in product returns processing and other pharmacy services such as physical inventory and identification and segregation of hazardous and non-hazardous pharmaceutical waste into proper waste streams. To learn more, please visit www.expworld.com.
About Noblis
Noblis, a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization, brings the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering know-how in an impartial environment to find timely, innovative, and enduring solutions to our clients’ greatest challenges.
Noblis works in essential areas, including healthcare; national security; transportation; sustainability: energy, environment, and climate; and enterprise transformation. For more information about Noblis, please visit noblis.org.
About Noblis Health Innovation and RASMAS
In Health Innovation, Noblis is a catalyst and trusted resource for innovative and constructive transformation in healthcare serving both government and non-government organizations. Noblis Health Innovation is leading the way in clinical design, quality improvement, and patient safety. Health Innovation’s core capabilities include Engineering Methodologies to Strategically Implement Regulatory Change (ICD-10), Health Information Technology (HIT), Modeling and Analytics, Organizational Transformation, and Healthcare Market-Facility Planning and Capitalization.
Noblis Health Innovation offers RASMAS, a web-based service that enables healthcare providers and suppliers to collaborate and respond to product recalls and alerts with dramatically increased speed, thus lowering administrative costs, mitigating legal risk, and most importantly, improving patient safety. For more information, please visit www.rasmas.noblis.org. # # #
Contact: Kirk Herweck
Director, Business Development
EXP Pharmaceutical Service Corp.
866-937-4937
kirkh@expworld.com
Contact: Laury Sendek
Corporate Communications, Noblis
703-610-2002
laury.sendek@noblis.org