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The hospital formulary plays a vital role for containing rising drug costs and promoting patient safety. Ensuring that prescribers use on-formulary drugs can make a significant contribution to controlling costs, while at the same time allowing for control over the process of delivering care – and ensuring that treatment protocols are followed.
The physical management of hospital formularies represents a significant challenge. Many hospitals still rely on paper notebooks as the document of record, meaning that changes are time consuming and version control is difficult to confirm. Recent Joint Commission requirements have focused attention of P&T committees on providing more systematic management of the formulary.
Formulary Advisor®
Thomson Healthcare Formulary Advisor delivers a complete online and handheld solution for formulary management that reduces the procedural burdens of maintaining an up-to-date formulary and helps to control costs. To learn more, visit Formulary Advisor.
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