Cost, Care, Control

"The innovation is the implementation of a set of clinical criteria to ensure consistent, clinically appropriate, and fair evaluations of non-formulary requests to ensure clinically-appropriate and cost-effective options are chosen. "Because of our high level of automation, PharmaCorr is a...

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Published in:Corrections Forum 2018-03, Vol.27 (2), p.36-40
Main Author: Guercio, G F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alternatives
Biological products
Costs
Drug formularies
Drug stores
Drug therapy
Infectious diseases
Innovations
Inventory
Order entry
Patients
Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmacists
Polypharmacy
Prescription drugs
Software
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Summary:"The innovation is the implementation of a set of clinical criteria to ensure consistent, clinically appropriate, and fair evaluations of non-formulary requests to ensure clinically-appropriate and cost-effective options are chosen. "Because of our high level of automation, PharmaCorr is able to provide in-depth reporting of a site's-or an entire contract's- purchases. Additionally, Sapphire, Diamond's web-based electronic ordering and electronic medication administration record (eMAR) program, provides online prescription order entry, reconciliation (medication check-in), reporting, inventory management, point of order entry drug utilization clinical reviews, medication return processing (where permitted by law), formulary management, and more. "Analyzing monthly utilization, formulary management trends, medication expenditures, clinical service metrics, polypharmacy information, and clinicians' overall prescribing habits is critical for properly managing budgetary dollars as well as for ensuring proper care and maximizing positive patient outcomes," says Valasek. "There are several electronic solutions that we are considering that will query all pharmacy data banks based on unique patient identifier (social security number, etc.) and feed the medication lists automatically back to the point of care.
ISSN:1072-9275