Customer Technologies
Cardinal Health provides services to pharmacies in more than 33,000
pharmacy sites. The company empowers its hospital and extended care
customers to “Take the Lead” by providing them with a broad
array of programs and resources to help them confront their constantly
changing challenges.
A) entelligencesm
entelligencesm is the industry's premier executive pharmacy information
management tool that enables customers to take control and effectively
manage and monitor their procurement strategies.
entelligencesm rolls up purchase data from each
point of purchasing within an environment and provides comprehensive
reporting to evaluate purchasing at the individual pharmacy and corporate
levels. Timely reports through entelligencesm help
the organization improve purchasing and inventory-management decisions
and identify where cost-saving opportunities exist. The organization
gains immediate access to detailed item-usage information, and flexible
reporting provides information in the format that is most useful to
their needs.
entelligencesm features:
- 30 months of purchase history
- Controlled substance reports
- AHFS drug categorization
- Aggregated generic 80/20 reports
- Electronic service flash reports
- Aggregated lost generic opportunity reports
- Market-share reports
- Centralized procurement information management
- Summarized purchasing detail
- Efficient report generation
- Prospective analytical tools
entelligencesm benefits our customers by:
- Customizing their portfolio management strategy
- Providing leverage in negotiation opportunities
- Conducting efficient purchasing analyses
- Allowing rapid decision support
- Enabling pharmacists to spend more time with patients
B) Cardinal.com ordering
Cardinal.com ordering provides real-time pharmacy-order and inventory-management
solutions through the Internet.
The Cardinal.com ordering program streamlines the ordering process and helps
control a pharmacy's inventory capital investment. The migration of the
current CardinalCHOICE® functionality from a Microsoft Windows™ based
environment to the Internet now provides the pharmacy with unparalleled
real-time procurement.
Cardinal.com ordering features:
- Immediate Internet access through the www.cardinal.com Web site
- Enhancement of the pharmacy's operational efficiencies
- Real-time stock status
- Up-to-the-minute pricing
- Real-time allocation of product from the distribution centers
- Instant order confirmation
- Electronic credits and returns
- Capacity of the pharmacy to stay within contract portfolios
during each pre- and post-order stage of purchasing
- Contract/program ranking that drives purchasing activity
- Recommendations for the highest ranked (lowest cost/unit) contract
item
- Promotion of orders of preferred products
Cardinal.com ordering benefits pharmacies by:
- Increasing profitability and gross margin
- Streamlining ordering and operational management time
- Enabling pharmacists to spend more time with patients
- Creating better, faster, and more useful operational information
- Enhancing and simplifying critical daily and strategic operational
decisions
- Providing the technology necessary to stay competitive
- Maximizing contract and program compliance
- Optimizing third-party reimbursements
C) ereceiver sm
ereceiver sm is a technologically advanced program that provides customers
with a rapid on-site product-receiving system.
ereceiversm allows customers to receive delivery totes,
verify the contents, and automatically update order quantities simply by
scanning each tote's product bar code. This process is facilitated through
a secure Internet link with www.cardinal.com.
And ereceiversm leverages Cardinal Health's Quality
Control Workstation to verify the products contained in the delivery tote.
ereceiver sm features:
- Secure, real-time Web site access to www.cardinal.com
- Immediate, positive product validation of the product receipt
- Easy operation from a tethered scanner connected to a browser-enabled
PC at the customer's location
- Automatic update order quantities
ereceiver sm benefits customers by:
- Dramatically reducing receiving costs for high-volume facilities
- Eliminating returns due to picking errors
- Reducing time spent checking-in orders by up to 80 percent
- Speeding approval for payment and reducing costly disputes
- Enabling pharmacists to spend more time with patients
- Providing the technology necessary to stay competitive
Mobile Solutions
Mobile Solutions empowers you to leverage the receiving and ordering
functionality of cardinal.com without being constrained to a desktop. Mobile
Solutions is a handheld scanning device based on Pocket PC™ technology.
It gives you the freedom to move untethered about the pharmacy and work
directly with your inventory. Mobile Solutions makes the pharmacy more
efficient in its daily processes.
With Mobile Solutions, ordering product can now be done with greater
efficiency and flexibility. Product bar codes can be scanned from the shelf
label or from the product itself. History and product details can also
be accessed and reviewed right from the Mobile Solutions device.
As product is received, you can record product by piece, case and tote
with the quick scan of the license plate. Since the device is completely
self-contained and not constrained by a computer cable, product can be
checked-in anywhere in the pharmacy or warehouse. Data can then be transferred
to and evaluated on cardinal.com.
With Mobile Solutions, the partnership between your pharmacy and cardinal.com
will enable you to focus more on patient care. The result is a more efficient
pharmacy and better results to your bottom line.
erecovery
Millions of patients across the country cannot afford the cost of their
medications. This includes the cost of acute care needs and outpatient
maintenance medications. With the rising number of indigent and uninsured
patients receiving medications, it becomes imperative for managed care
providers to maximize every dollar and expenditure. Cardinal Health and
Med Data Services have joined forces to bring you erecovery, a program
to assist you in recovering the cost of medications used in the treatment
of your indigent-care or uninsured patients. The erecovery program allows
those facilities serving large or small indigent population to enhance
their bottom line.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers have an extensive tradition of offering
prescription medications free of charge to individuals who meet specified
requirements. However, each manufacturer has established varying qualifications,
different forms, and requires different proof of indigent status.
The erecovery program brings forms, qualifications and requirements to
your fingertips. This reduces time spent searching for information and
helps recover a significant portion of the cost of providing medications
to your indigent patients.
HealthProLink™
Providing improved patient care while reducing costs is the ultimate
goal of any hospital pharmacy system. Cardinal Health, with its industry-leading
technological development capabilities, is proud to introduce to you its
next generation of innovative solutions- HealthProLink Clinical Data Exchange.
HealthProLink is a convenient and powerful handheld computing system that
places all the clinical tools you need to enhance patient care and bottom-line
efficiencies right in palm of your hand.
HealthProLink enables the pharmacy to:
- Reduce Costs
- Increase Productivity and Offset Pharmacy Staffing Shortages
- Generate Reports
- Access the Hospitals Therapeutic Interchange Guide and Antibiograms
- Report and Document therapeutic Interventions, Medication Errors and
Adverse Drug Reactions
- Quickly Document the Savings Generated by Your Staff through Therapeutic
Interventions
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