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Home Infusion Therapy

Home Infusion Therapy. Requirements of Information Systems in an Expanding Environment. Home Infusion Therapy. Background Overview of Current Process What is the Problem? The Vendors Recommendation. What do home infusion companies do?.

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Home Infusion Therapy

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  1. Home Infusion Therapy Requirements of Information Systems in an Expanding Environment

  2. Home Infusion Therapy • Background • Overview of Current Process • What is the Problem? • The Vendors • Recommendation

  3. What do home infusion companies do? • Provide intravenous medication for patients to infuse themselves at home • Acute and Chronic therapies • Provide in home nursing care • Provide 24 hour access to health care practitioners and customer service

  4. The Effects of Managed Care • The focus is now on: • Reductions in inpatient length of stay. • The aging of the baby boomers. • Skyrocketing healthcare costs. • Ten year projection: Home care companies will be competing for a projected $60 billion

  5. Olsten Health Services • World’s largest provider of staffing services • North America’s largest provider of home health care and related management services • 670,000 employees/625,000 clients • 500 locations in the US and Canada

  6. Industry Employment Projections • New jobs projected in home health care between 1992 and 2005 is 500,000 • Percentage increase in home care employment between 1992 and 2005 is 128%

  7. Industry Economy Projections • Home health care is the fastest growing segment of the health care industry • Home health care is the second fastest growing industry in the US. economy • Home health care will have a 7% increase in total health care expenditures by the year 2000

  8. Current and Future Work Flow • Current • Dispense chronic therapies and coordinate nursing activities on a nationwide basis • Approximately 2000 orders per month • Future • Add programs to increase volume to approximately 800 orders per day

  9. The Current Information System • Designed for low to medium volume • The drug industry is continually developing home infusion products that will treat more illnesses in the home • Access across the United States at over 40 different infusion offices • Continuity of care is easily achieved

  10. The Current Information System

  11. The Current Information System

  12. What are the IS problems in a high volume environment? • Simply unable to handle high volume • Ease of use - Many complicated key strokes to manipulate information • Difficult to train new employees • Poor inventory control system for high volume • Too many manual data entries

  13. What are some possible solutions? • Evaluate “stand alone” systems to handle high volume scenarios • Decrease the amount of manual data entries • Ensure compatibility with current IS systems • Examine Inventory control processes

  14. The Vendors

  15. The Vendors

  16. CDS consulting • Founded in 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Comprised of industry-specific technology experts focused on the managed care industry • The product = RxImage

  17. Mckesson Pharmacy Management Systems • Founded in 1833 in San Francisco, California • Provider of pharmaceutical supply and medical-surgical supply management, information technology for healthcare providers, and health care information outsourcing • The product = Pharmaserv

  18. RxImage • Product Claims: • Easy Interface with current information systems • Specialization of tasks • Just -in- time production flow • Just -in- time inventory • Fully automated comment entry • Fully automated event notification

  19. RxImage • Product Features • Order entry • Item entry • Rx intervention • Screening/Doctor Call • Customer Service • Fill on Arrival • Adjudication Support

  20. Rx Image • Product Features continued • Dispensing • Quality Assurance • Shipping

  21. Pharmaserv for Windows • Product Claims • Easy to learn • Easy to use • multi-user capabilities • multi-server capabilities • On screen notes • Specialty report generation that may enhance quality control

  22. Pharmaserv for Windows • Product Features • Dispensing prescriptions • Providing patient counseling information • Interfacing with third party payers • Integration with other Mckesson Windows-based programs

  23. Comparison of Vendors

  24. Recommendation • It is the recommendation of this comparison to further investigate CDS consulting’s product, RxImage • All components offered in one package best designed to meet the needs of the growing home infusion industry

  25. Questions? Confused?

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