Prescription Processing: Optimize Your Pharmacy Operations

The goal of every specialty and infusion pharmacy is the same – increase efficiency, lower costs, and continue to improve patient care.

As the roles of specialty and infusion pharmacists grow to provide more patient services, the role of prescription processing software has become more important than ever. With only so many hours in a day, pharmacies should explore the technology options available to optimize their workflow and the patient experience for those they serve.

Benefits of software for pharmacy operations

We all understand that the key to efficiency is automating processes to optimize resources. Yet many pharmacies are bound by the prescription processing software they use to maintain their daily operations. Hours can be lost as pharmacists access multiple, disparate systems to compile necessary patient information and enter it in multiple places. When staff must create workarounds to complete tasks, it’s a good indication their software isn’t the right fit for their organization. If it doesn’t streamline your workflows and help you expand your business with existing resources, you should be looking to upgrade.

Prescription processing software should simplify your workload by automating repetitive, manual tasks. And it should be supplemented with complete, accurate patient data at the point of care. When pharmacists are relieved of the time-consuming responsibility of hunting down missing information, they can focus on more important tasks that get patients started on therapy sooner and help them stay compliant.

Inovalon prescription processing software

Given the many steps and tasks associated with a single prescription – from verifying a patient’s medical history and eligibility to the prior authorization process – it’s easy to imagine how any number of things could cause a delay or bottleneck in the process of getting therapy to the patient.

Inovalon’s ScriptMed^® applications were designed with specialty and infusion pharmacy workflows in mind. They are scalable, end-to-end software solutions that streamline each task from prescription receipt to delivery, improving:

• • Patient management
  • Benefit coordination
  • Clinical management
  • Inventory oversight
  • Revenue cycle management

Along the way, ScriptMed automates many time-consuming tasks, like compiling a complete patient profile and verifying insurance coverage. The ability to configure your own persona-based workflows means the right tasks are routed to the right person, at the right time.

With real-time access to the industry’s largest primary source dataset, pharmacies gain patient record supplementation, which increases efficiency and improves the quality and accuracy of patient data.

And through ScriptMed’s extensive APIs, pharmacies have robust flexibility to communicate data with the patient and other stakeholders.

Get started on your upgrade

It’s time to let your software take the lead and do the heavy lifting for you and your team. Speak with an expert to take the first step toward increasing efficiency with an end-to-end prescription processing software from Inovalon.