Drug Cost Opportunity Analytics

Do you know that more can be done to rein in your pharmacy’s medication costs – but don’t have convenient access to the kind of data that can help you quickly identify ways to save?

Cardinal Health Drug Cost Opportunity Analytics gives you easy, real-time, on-demand access to pharmacy-centric metrics, dashboards and reports that track drug cost and utilization data.

By aggregating and consolidating disparate data, you get actionable insight into top drug cost drivers and trends. You can drill down by therapeutic group, class, physician, drug or NDC. Armed with these insights, you can identify the most impactful and powerful pharmacy savings opportunities.

This tool allows you to compare drug cost data to prior fiscal years, and to benchmark your drug spend against hospitals that are similar in size, acuity level or academic status. By identifying hospitals within a system with the lowest cost per case, pharmacy leaders can also identify best practice patterns and create guidelines to reduce costs system-wide.

This tool also can support your hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship program, by tracking and benchmarking antibiotic selection and use over time, by defined-daily-dose or days-of-therapy. It evaluates susceptibility and resistance patterns, so you can determine the best pharmaceutical agent for each hospital's specific patient population.