Keystone Therapeutics Inc. Partners with Jefferson Regional Medical Center and Punxsutawney Area Hospital to Manage Anticoagu

Keystone Therapeutics, Inc., which develops and implements services for clinical management and decision support to optimize drug therapy and reduce the incidence of medication errors, has just signed a two year agreement with Jefferson Regional Medical Center and Punxsutawney Area Hospital for the company's DoseResponseClinic anticoagulation management service.

"Our unique program for establishing and managing anticoagulation clinics helps physicians offices and hospitals establish a clinically superior and business efficient program that benefits patients, physicians and health systems. We achieve this by coupling our proprietary software, DoseResponse, for infrastructure, documentation, management and reporting with our own team of specially trained Doctors of Pharmacy providing clinical management and oversight under protocols approved by the physicians and the organization," says Dr. Ray Stierer, Keystone's Director of Clinical Services.

DoseResponse Clinics manage over 1,500 patients, use only 25 hours of a Pharm.D.'s time, and patients managed by the clinics average over 82 percent time in therapeutic range. "The physicians love the consistent patient management and real time reporting we provide on their patients, the patients love the clear and concise instruction and education on their therapy, and the hospitals and physician offices love the impact on patient safety and modest cost," says Mark Hudson, Vice President of Keystone Therapeutics.

There are currently between 2 and 4 million patients on warfarin (brand name Coumadin) in the U.S., which is widely recognized as a difficult drug to manage. Current routine management of warfarin therapy is often viewed as costly, time consuming and risky by physicians, and established anticoagulation clinics, while more effective than routine management, are often burdened by high overhead costs. DoseResponseClinic provides consistent management adhering to a set of physician-approved national consensus guidelines and managed by Pharm .D.'s with specialty training in anticoagulation.

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Keystone Therapeutics Inc. Partners with Jefferson Regional Medical Center and Punxsutawney Area Hospital to Manage Anticoagu

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