VP Kus keeps a development team pointed in the right direction. As the Henry Ford Health System’s VP of Ambulatory Pharmacy Services, with full management responsibilities for 28 pharmacies, you’d be right in assuming Dan Kus has his eye focused squarely on the bottom line. Where you’d probably be wrong is in assuming what that
The solution was “Do It Yourself.” In 2011, Director of Clinical and Specialty Services Jonathan Van Lare concluded there had to be a better way to solve the Workflow Efficiency problems Pharmacy Advantage experienced on a daily basis. “Granted, we’d advanced beyond the old paper-based system, but we were still operating in multiple Access and
How the DromosPTM team simplified the prior authorization and billing process. In 2011, when Pharmacy Advantage offered Brad Hall the opportunity to co-develop a software system for streamlining its operation at every level, he had only a basic knowledge of the work specialty pharmacies do every day — and virtually no experience in dealing with
The specialty medication patient population is growing. Fast. At the most fundamental level, an aging Boomer Generation is driving increased demand for treatments that address a wide array of specific and rare disease states. With that growing demand has come a significant rise in spending on specialty medications. While they make up only a fraction
Marcy Snell now focused on patients, not process. “My job as an Oncology Services Coordinator used to be so detail-intensive, I just didn’t have much time to get to know my patients as individuals.” Which is important because? Dr. Snell, who’s been with Troy, Michigan’s Pharmacy Advantage since late 2010, has an example at the
Since 2008, Michelle Thornton has been a Patient Care Coordinator at Troy, Michigan’s Pharmacy Advantage. She made the move from her previous position for the opportunity to grow professionally. There’s been growth all along the way, but since 2014, she’s seen her opportunities to serve patients expand faster and further than she’d ever imagined possible.
Ever heard the tech-measurement term exabyte? Think of it this way: If conventional email etiquette places the limit of acceptable file-attachment size at roughly 10 megabytes, a single exabyte is the equivalent of 100 billion giant-sized email attachments. Now consider this: By 2020, the total amount of data generated by the healthcare system is projected
Clinical Specialist Umang Desai oversees Pharmacy Advantage’s Autoimmune department, the organization’s largest group — with five members serving more than 1100 patients as of early 2017. That’s 37% more patients than they handled just three years ago (800) — with no increase in staff size. And yet, Umang will tell you, his job is a
Clinical Manager JP Lopez has now been one of the team leaders in securing accreditation for Pharmacy Advantage twice. The second time around took him about half of the effort as the first instance. More on that later. Overview of requirements “First and foremost,” JP explains, “accreditation auditors look at your patient management program —
Why and how a specialty pharmacy became a software developer JP Lopez still vividly remembers the daily routine for treating patients at Pharmacy Advantage before 2014. “Every morning started with the staff reviewing a single printout that listed all the patients we were serving, with each Disease State HUB’s responsibilities for the day. Between all