Stormont Vail Regional Health
The Challenge
The fundamental challenge facing Stormont Vail's pharmacy leaders was a lack of visibility into medication inventory. Medication management data resided in multiple, disparate systems, and managing, gathering, compiling, and analyzing the data on spreadsheets was time consuming and expensive.
Diving deeper, pharmacy leaders conducted an operational, regulatory, and clinical gap analysis across their medication management process. On the inpatient side, they studied the service location and utilization of each automated dispensing cabinet and evaluated each for optimization opportunities. Within central pharmacy, they reviewed the effectiveness of carousels, controlled substance management automation, compounding technology, and more.
The Solution
To create visibility into medication inventory, and to deliver the analytic tools, dashboards, and insights to accelerate pharmacy performance, the pharmacy team chose Omnicell One — an intelligence solution that adds a team of data scientists and clinical strategists to collaboratively help Stormont Vail define goals, plan actions, and measure results.
The Impact
With Omnicell One in place, Stormont Vail anticipates gaining full visibility to medication inventory, reducing drug spend, and reassigning resources to higher value-added roles. The Omnicell One dashboards will help managers and first-line staff measure performance in achieving pharmacy KPIs. They also give Chief Pharmacy Officer Dima Awad valuable tools to use with health system leadership. "That's part of marketing the value of pharmacy services and having a seat at the executive level," she said. "You need to show impact on improved outcomes, for the benefit of your department, the organization, and for the sake of patient care." Awad described Omnicell One as "one of the most urgent projects of the year," noting it sits on top of pharmacy automation technology and ties it all together to help control drug spend.
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