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Creating a Connected Pharmacy Ecosystem: How Allegheny Health Network Optimized Inventory by Integrating Automation and Intelligence
Inventory Optimization Service
Omnicell Inventory Optimization Service combines enterprise-wide inventory visibility, prioritized optimization actions, and a dedicated Clinical Strategist partnership in an effort to help pharmacy teams reduce waste, protect medication availability, improve operational efficiency, and deliver measurable outcomes across care settings.
WHY CHOOSE OMNICELL Inventory Optimization Service?
Omnicell Inventory Optimization Service combines enterprise-wide inventory visibility, prioritized optimization actions, standardized performance reporting, and a dedicated Clinical Strategist partnership in an effort to help health systems move from insight to execution and improve inventory performance over time.
Pharmacy teams are responsible for keeping medications available while managing cost, waste, shortages, expiration risk, and workforce constraints. However, inventory information and workflows are often fragmented across systems and locations, which can make it difficult to identify where action is needed most and sustain consistent performance across the enterprise.
Omnicell Inventory Optimization Service brings together inventory data from connected Omnicell automation and care settings to provide enterprise-level visibility into medication inventory performance. Prioritized workflows are designed to help pharmacy teams focus on the highest-impact optimization opportunities and take action based on their roles and responsibilities. Health systems can use these insights and prioritized actions to potentially reduce waste, improve inventory turns, optimize working capital, and protect medication availability.
Inventory Optimization Service is designed to help pharmacy and health system leaders reduce financial waste, protect medication availability, ease staff burden, and standardize optimization across sites. Standardized KPI reporting and dedicated Clinical Strategist support help leaders measure progress, validate value, and sustain improvement over time.
Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce excess inventory, expirations, and deadstock while improving inventory turns, working capital, and ongoing cost control.
Use enterprise inventory insights to identify medication availability risk, support shortage monitoring, and guide rebalancing or other mitigation actions across the health system. Prioritized workflows are designed to help teams reduce stockouts while limiting the emergency restocking work that adds cost and operational burden.
Prioritize the highest-impact inventory actions through guided workflows engineered to help pharmacy teams reduce manual review, restocking burden, and time spent determining what to address next.
Track progress against inventory KPIs and work with a dedicated Clinical Strategist to validate outcomes, reinforce accountability, and identify new optimization opportunities over time.
Inventory optimization in practice
TidalHealth Peninsula Regional used Omnicell’s Inventory Optimization Service to replace manual reporting, improve medication visibility and optimize cabinet inventory. With near real-time inventory data, dashboards, and support from a dedicated Omnicell Clinical Strategist, TidalHealth achieved visibility into more than 90% of its medication inventory, reduced restocks by 38%, decreased stockouts by 65%, and increased its ADC dispense rate from 75% to 88%.
Inventory Optimization Service helps health systems identify, prioritize, and act on medication inventory opportunities across connected care settings. Standardized workflows and reporting, supported by a dedicated Clinical Strategist, are designed to help pharmacy teams establish performance goals, identify early opportunities, measure progress, and sustain optimization over time.
Inventory Optimization Service
Connect with Omnicell to explore how our Inventory Optimization Service can potentially help your pharmacy teams reduce financial waste, protect medication availability, ease manual burden, and sustain measurable inventory improvement across care settings.
Inventory Optimization Service combines enterprise-wide visibility, prioritized optimization actions, and a dedicated Clinical Strategist partnership in an effort to help pharmacy teams move from fragmented inventory management to measurable, sustained optimization.
Bring together inventory information from connected Omnicell automation throughout care settings to identify potential opportunities related to medication availability, excess inventory, expirations, par-level performance, and other inventory trends that can affect cost and care delivery.
Prioritized workflows are designed to help pharmacy teams focus on the highest-impact inventory opportunities, reduce manual review, and take action based on their roles and responsibilities.
A dedicated Omnicell Clinical Strategist works with health system teams to interpret performance, prioritize opportunities, support adoption, and help sustain measurable improvement over time.