Millstone Medical Outsourcing, LLC is excited to announce that the company has successfully launched and gone live with version 12.1.3 of Oracle’s E-Business Suite application. As of Monday, February 24, Millstone has taken numerous clients aboard its new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system consisting of inventory and distribution modules as well as a customized portal for customer service, field reps, and ordering processes. With Oracle’s capabilities, Millstone has developed a technology and hardware infrastructure that enhances and simplifies client interactions and maximizes online customer visibility.
Millstone Medical Launches Oracle Application

To further enhance all aspects of its ERP system, Millstone has also contracted with cloud-based data center, Rackspace, to host all of its Oracle applications and provide high availability backup and redundancy. This combination of services delivers state of the art hardware and software that provides customers a high degree of assurance that orders will be fulfilled with no interruptions and product will be delivered with high reliability to hospitals and other providers.
“Oracle and Rackspace have provided a complete software solution for our business, ” said Brad Schwarz, vice president of operations at Millstone Medical, in the February 27, 2014 news release. “We are operating an ERP system built on advanced technology and security. Our new system streamlines capabilities and provides data access that our customers can’t access on their own. We are very excited to bring all customers on board.”
Tim Lucenti, director of process engineering, told OTW, “This system gives providers and sales representatives 24/7 access to initiate orders and see available inventory via wireless devices and other outlets. It allows us to efficiently fulfill orders at midnight that will be used for surgery that same day.”

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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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