Pharmacy Consulting assists hospital pharmacies in establishing protocols and processes that ensure that the right drug and right dose are given to the right patient via the right route at the right time.

The goal of Pharmacy Consulting is to provide measurable value through increased effectiveness and productivity of hospitals’ pharmacies, ensuring the utilization of pharmaceuticals is both clinically and financially appropriate. Key steps to accomplishing this goal include:

• Quantifying medication cost-savings initiatives and working with pharmacists, physicians, and clinicians to maintain effective formularies
• Assisting providers with drug-class comparisons, evidence-based reviews, and protocol development
• Tracking utilization to measure change and success

MedAssets Pharmacy Consulting provides the following features:

• Recommends initiatives to enhance cost-effectiveness of the total pharmacy program
• Reviews clinical pharmacy program and effectiveness 
• Offers a national, up-to-date, severity adjusted drug utilization database, which is DRG-specific and provides aggregate data from 4.3 million patients 
• Provides a drug information center to support pharmacy customers through outsourced vendors 
• Offers disease management programs to develop pathways and protocols for specific disease states, patient monitoring tools
• Provides formulary management support including advisory committee positioning statements, drug class comparisons, drug utilization evaluations, formulary evaluation, tools for establishing and maintaining formulary and formulary consulting
• Offers preferred pricing on various software and medication database systems
• Provides continuing pharmaceutical education as an ACPE approved provider

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