Axion ReadySet Offers Better EHS Alternative to Respond

With the popular environmental, health and safety (EHS) tracking system Respond to be discontinued soon, employee health professionals are looking for a replacement. Consequently, some competing vendors are now offering Respond replacement packages. One such company is Axion Health.

Axion said it understands the challenges these customers are facing with the possibility of losing years of data. And is willing to offer data migration services for free to transfer employee records.

According to Axion, the company’s EHS solution ReadySet can offer much more than just tracking and reporting databases. It delivers many enhanced capabilities, including an employee portal to provide secure employee self-service and a unique 100 percent paperless experience. Instead of laboriously entering data manually, information from employee surveys, labs, radiology and HR systems streams automatically into ReadySet, freeing busy clinical professionals from tedious data entry to focus on care, said Axion.

Furthermore, added Axion, ReadySet is a web-based SaaS platform, requiring no servers and minimal IT support. “It's easy to implement and often is up and running in less than a month,” stated Jacques Devaud, VP of Business Development for Axion Health.

Additionally, in partnership with the Reed Group, Axion has also readied a return-to-work toolkit, labeled MDGuidelines. Besides MDGuidelines, Axion’s ReadySet also offers additional integrated services such as Dragon Dictation, barcode scanning compatibility, and text alerts -a first in EHS platforms.

A recent study published in the Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Journal analyzed several quality measures of data captured during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, comparing Axion’s ReadySet EHR to traditional paper processes.

8,411 employees from a California-based healthcare network participated in the study. The authors stated, “healthcare workers provided more complete information…when they used a self-administered, Web-based EHR.”

“EHRs significantly reduced the frequency of vaccine-related medical discrepancies. And, despite initial concerns that the convenience of an EHR would lead to a high rate of declinations, it was observed that voluntary vaccination rates exceeded national and state averages,” the authors noted.

The study concluded that Web-based EHR solutions can, “improve the quality, accuracy, and tracking of vaccination data and can bridge the gap between public health recommendations and tangible improvements in health outcomes.”