McKesson to spotlight solutions at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting 2015
NEW ORLEANS - McKesson will showcase its comprehensive suite of technology solutions and clinical expertise designed to help hospital and health system pharmacy leaders improve their bottom line, without compromising quality and safety at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting 2015.
“Changing reimbursement, along with increased focus on quality and patient satisfaction, continues to put pressure on health system pharmacies to be seen as a center of care rather than cost,” stated Mark Eastham, SVP and general manager, McKesson Pharmacy Optimization. “Our pharmacy consulting team — composed of former health system pharmacists and hospital administrators — can help identify opportunities and work with health system pharmacies hand-in-hand to achieve success in three critical areas: rigorous financial performance, employee collaboration for operational efficiency, and integration of critical technology systems.”
Attendees can get a first-hand look at a number of solutions designed to address top pharmacy challenges:
McKesson Health Systems: McKesson helps customers improve financial outcomes through its evidence-based programs, products and services including specialty and ambulatory pharmacy consulting, pharmacy revenue cycle analysis and support, and indigent drug recovery solutions. In addition, McKesson’s supply chain management solutions such as its competitive generics portfolio, Lean Six Sigma methodologies and training, timely drug shortage information, specialty inventory management technology, and single-source access to specialty products help customers increase efficiency and deliver measurable, time-saving results. McKesson provides actionable pharmacy insights through detailed drug spend analytics, 340B program management and improved billing accuracy;
McKesson Pharmacy Systems & Automation: MPS&A offers two new solutions to improve pharmacy outcomes - Adherence Performance Solution and Clinical Programs Solution. The Adherence Performance Solution online dashboard provides valuable data to help health system pharmacies understand and act on patient medication adherence behaviors. The dashboard identifies patients to target for an adherence program based on their current level of adherence and generates data to compare adherence performance to the rest of the market segment to prove the value of the pharmacy to preferred prescriber networks. The Clinical Programs Solution platform integrates with MPS&A’s pharmacy-management system so that health system pharmacies can easily add and manage multiple clinical programs for patients. Whether health system pharmacies use stand-alone vendor services or self-directed programs, the Clinical Programs Solution can save time and money by automatically synchronizing enrolled patient data between clinical programs and the hospital pharmacy’s system, identifying potential vendor programs for patients with specific medical conditions, and giving them easy-to-use tools to build their own customized clinical programs; and
Parata: McKesson’s automation partner, Parata, will be demonstrating its Parata Max and Parata Mini robotic dispensing technology to show how automation solutions can fill scripts safely; prevent controlled-substance diversion; manage an increasing script volume; and store, monitor and track drugs safely and securely. Parata automation allows health system pharmacists to free up labor for other value-added activities, such as medication reconciliation consulting, patient education, and post-discharge interventions to improve patient outcomes. Parata’s PASS 208 adherence strip packager will also be featured within the McKesson booth to show how health system pharmacists can make it easy for patients to take the right medication at the right time, every time. PASS adherence packaging organizes medications the way patients take them, by day and time of dose, and empowers pharmacists to take a more proactive role in patient outcomes, avoid readmission for discharged patients, support common “med to bed” health system programs, and provide services to other health system entities such as a hospice or care center.