Medicines Management Analytics

The prescribing of medicines is a very complex and costly area within the NHS.  With prescribing costs reaching near 20 billion pounds in the NHS for 2010.  Understanding which medications to prescribe and to whom efficiently, effectively and safely, has never been so important.

Good Medicines Management supports health professionals and patients to make treatment choices that are safe, effective and deliver meaningful outcomes.  An evidence based approach to product choices must balance safety, tolerability, effectiveness, price and simplicity of treatment and with the complexity of integrated care pathways across different care settings, maintaining a detailed record of patients’ medicines is an increasingly complex problem.

CDRIntell’s Medicines Management Analytics can provide clinicians and commissioners with the necessary prescribing data, in the form of powerful dashboard reports to assist with making these key decisions.

Our Approach

Health Intelligence, in partnership with Ista Health have developed a reporting and analytics solution that is able to deliver the information, reporting and analytics required to balance a prescribing budget with the implementation of national and local priorities and the healthcare needs of individual patients.

• Improving Quality of care through evidence based medicine
• Innovation in service delivery and changes in primary care services
• Prevention of patient safety events
• Productivity gains from re-engineered these services.

Through our partner Ista Health, we support a minimum recurrent saving on the pharmacy budget of 7-15% for each GP Practice.

Key Features & Benefits

• Reporting and analytics are delivered as a managed service – no need to maintain data and clinical/medical rule sets
• Reporting and analytics designed by clinicians/pharmacists for pharmacists
• Full prescribing history of each patient

Benefits to GP and GP Consortia

• Minimum of 7-15% saving on drug spend for each GP Practice
• Supporting Medicines Management services that have been tried and tested in populations of 18,000 patients and growing
• Reduction of unplanned admissions
• Improved outcomes for patients
• Benchmarks and compares General Practice prescribing data
• Data can be shown by GP Practice, Practice, Consortia or PCT wide

Case Study

A randomised trial in Primary Care called PINCER, identified patients taking several different sub optimal medications that resulted in 5% of all hospital admissions. Fourty percent of these admissions were classified as avoidable. Health Intelligence CDRIntell solution easily identifies all patients taking these high risk medications and provides clinicians with the necessary information to prevent patients from being requiring emergency hospital services.