Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, today announced it is working with Cardinal Health to provide new clinical support services to members focused on helping them improve patient outcomes and the financial performance of pharmacies. Members will benefit through:
* Drug cost savings through a guaranteed savings program
* Consultative services for medication safety, operations improvement and regulatory compliance
* Drug information services
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* Optimized outpatient pharmacy operations
* Improved patient monitoring by pharmacists 24-7 through remote medication order entry services
"Cardinal Health is widely recognized as an industry leader in pharmacy services," said Gary Freeman, vice president of pharmacy for Amerinet. "Utilizing their subject matter experts, resources, and proven best practices to rapidly bring information and tools to help Amerinet members improve clinical outcomes and control drug costs will be of great value."
Clinical subject matter experts will be dedicated to supporting all Amerinet members without regard to their wholesaler with access to quality and regulatory updates, changing standards, newsletters, the latest medication safety best practices and policies and procedures templates. They will also provide formulary monographs, drug information, antibiotic trending reports and evidence-based clinical information resources
"Amerinet members will benefit from member-wide negotiated pricing for a full suite of pharmacy support services that is designed to help them advance the pharmacy as a strategic driver for the hospital's agenda and transform the pharmacy into a strategic asset," said Mary Baxter, vice president of Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions.
The services support four opportunity areas on the hospital agenda identified by Cardinal Health as the Four F Framework:
* Find new meaningful growth and cost savings through new revenue streams such as outpatient pharmacies, or by reducing drug costs
* Fix operational inefficiencies through programs such as inventory and automation optimization and pharmaceutical recovery programs
* Fulfill the mission and quality patient care through initiatives like antibiotic stewardship, accreditation compliance, remote medication order entry services
* Follow patients beyond the hospital throughout the continuum of care with outpatient discharge medications and medication therapy management services
