Customer Technologies
Cardinal Health provides services to pharmacies in more than 33,000
pharmacy sites. The company empowers its pharmacy customers to “Take
the Lead” by providing them with a broad array of programs and
resources to help them confront their constantly changing challenges.
entelligence sm
entelligence sm is the industry's premier executive pharmacy
information management tool that enables customers to take control and effectively
manage and monitor their procurement strategy.
entelligence sm 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 entelligence sm 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, while 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
- Market share
- Centralized procurement information management
- Summarized purchasing detail
- Efficient report generation
- Prospective analytical tools
entelligencesm benefits customers by:
- Customizing their portfolio management strategy
- Providing leverage in negotiation opportunities
- Conducting efficient purchasing analysis
- Allowing rapid decision support
- Enabling them to spend more time with your patients
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
- Enhances 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
- Enables the pharmacy to stay within contract portfolios during
each pre- and post-order stage of purchasing
- Contract/program ranking drives purchasing activity
- Recommendations for the highest ranked (lowest cost/unit) contract
item
- Encourages 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
ereceiversm
ereceiversm 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.
ereceiversm leverages our Quality Control Workstation
to verify the products contained in the delivery tote.
ereceiversm features:
- Secure, real-time Web site access to www.cardinal.com
- Immediate, positive product validation of the product receipt
- Operates easily operates from a tethered scanner connected
to a browser-enabled PC at the customer's location
- Automatically updates order quantities
ereceiversm 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.
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