Pharmacists Improve Care Quality and Save Money Through Clinical Interventions
Quantifi users documented more than 1.6 million interventions in third quarter 2008


    BELLEVUE, WA, October 10, 2008 /Washington News Articles/ -- Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,200 hospitals in the United States, announced today that its Quantifi clinical documentation program continues to be successful in helping clients show cost savings, establish benchmarks and trend clinical and quality pharmacy activities. Pharmacy OneSource has 30,701 users currently documenting in Quantifi who have recorded more than $91 million in cost savings in the third quarter of 2008.

"Quantifi helped The Valley Hospital achieve 55,535 interventions which produced $3.5 million dollars of cost savings in one year!" said Carlo Lupano, Pharmacy Manager for The Valley Hospital

Quantifi users documented 1,683,890 interventions last quarter, which were associated with $8,810,449 actual dollar and $82,300,419 in risk avoidance savings by pharmacists through intervention. Real reduction in supply costs (such as a switch from atorvastatin to simvistatin) is an example of actual dollar savings; where avoided potential costs (an adverse drug event or an extended length of stay) represent risk avoidance savings.

Here are the Top Five Drugs associated with an intervention recorded in Quantifi last quarter, and the total number of reports for each:

Vancomycin 58287
Warfarin 30215
Enoxaparin 29872
Levofloxacin 18256
Piperacillin and Tazobactam Sodium 12161

With more than 700 hospitals across the world using Quantifi, and more than 19 million clinical interventions, adverse events and adverse drug reactions documented, Pharmacy OneSource understands the potential to increase the credibility of pharmacy numbers in the eyes of the hospital administrators.

"Using Quantifi, pharmacists were able to document clinical interventions and activities that saved our system more than $2.2 million over a three-year period," said Rob Adamson, Corporate Clinical Pharmacy Director of Saint Barnabas Health Care System.

Quantifi allows pharmacists to document their clinical interventions, adverse events and adverse drug reactions quickly over the internet or on a handheld computer through a series of menus, drop-lists, and input screens, collecting crucial event data easily. In addition, Quantifi users have the ability to follow-up on their reports or the reports done by their peers. Quantifi Administrators easily generate executive level reports and detailed managerial reports to support clinical and quality improvement activities.

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Keith Streckenbach
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