BELLEVUE, WA – A company known for helping pharmacies keep track of medications is seeing success in the hospital market.

Pharmacy OneSource, founded in 2001 in Bellevue, Wash., launched its Sentri7 patient surveillance tool one year ago. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool combines medication, laboratory and patient data to improve patient safety with medication-related issues in various areas of the hospital, including the lab, the bedside and the operating room.

“Surveillance throughout the hospital … is a bigger market than we’d anticipated,” said Tim Gibbons, the company’s president. “That’s where our biggest growth is now.”

Officials point out that many competitors focus on infections caused by a transgression of guidelines, while Sentri7 concentrates on the interactions of drugs, patients and clinicians, beginning at the pharmacy and branching out to all levels of the hospital. That may not mean that a certain drug was delivered in the wrong dose, but that a drug might have an adverse reaction if combined with other drugs or activities.

“We’ve realized there are a lot more opportunities to intervene than we ever imagined,” added Keith Streckenbach, Pharmacy OneSource’s chief strategy officer.