Creating a Supply FormularyWe were engaged by an IDN to create a corporate supply formulary based on the pharmacy concepts of efficacy, safety, and cost.
DATAPROS IN THE NEWS: Gulf Coast Business Review Article “CONTENT IS KING”… It’s no surprise that Tampa company DataPros for Healthcare likes to use a quote from Sherlock Holmes on its Web site. “The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession,” Holmes once said in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s crime novels. Gathering and enhancing accurate, critical data for better decision making is the primary business for DataPros. But instead of doing it for Scotland Yard like Holmes, DataPros does it for hospitals and medical centers. READ FULL STORY in Gulf Coast Business Review.
AHRMM IS APPROACHING FAST… Visit us at booth #731. DataPros will be attending the AHRMM 2009 annual conference and exhibition July 19 – 22 in our home town, Tampa, Florida. We are located less than 15 minutes from downtown Tampa. Come meet The DataPros staff and see how to transform your data into a powerful, actionable business tool. Learn about the new releases of priceREPORTS™, everyCONTRACT™, and priceHUNTER™ and how they integrate to form the pricePAL™ Suite.
DATAPROS FOR HEALTHCARE ENDORSES GS1 STANDARDS AND INDUSTRY TIMELINE IMPLEMENTATION…Tampa, Fla. (April, 2009) – The president of DataPros for Healthcare today endorsed the adoption and implementation timeline of the Global Data Standardization Network (GDSN) throughout the healthcare industry, saying that the new standards will transform healthcare supply data.DataPros for Healthcare actively supports the GS1 Global Supply Chain Standards including the adoption of the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), Global Location Number (GLN) and the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).“As a leading provider of data cleansing solutions and champions of data integrity, we embrace the GS1 global data standards for healthcare,” said Allen Esses, President of DataPros for Healthcare. “These standards change the rules of the game for healthcare and transform data integrity to an agreed upon standard across the industry,” he said. “Today we begin with standards adoption and then move towards data integration and everyday use in transactions.”Proposed Timeline of ImplementationIndustry timeline below for standards adoption:2009 – Request that providers and suppliers recognize GLNs and suppliers begin to register GTINs for their products2010 – December 31, 2010; require all providers and suppliers to recognize and use of GLN2011 – Continue to enforce the use of the GLN2012 – December 31, 2012; require GTIN for all products from the suppliers and providers
DATAPROS FOR HEALTHCARE SAVES HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER $1M...pricePAL™ SOFTWARE’S EFFICIENCY GAINS ACCEPTANCE IN THE MARKETTampa, Fla. (April, 2009) – A software tool developed by DataPros for Healthcare for the Penn State University’s Hershey Medical Center saved the hospital more than $1 million in supply costs in the first year.“DataPros was able to work with us to develop a contracts and spend reporting tool that saved us time looking for contracts and gave us data to correct pricing problems with vendors,” said James Rohacek, administrator of support services integration for the institution. DataPros for Healthcare and Hershey Medical Center have been working together for about a year, to develop the software to include a robust electronic contract database and a group of spend reports to monitor price discrepancies and buying opportunities. The medical center had been frustrated by its current paper filing systems and the limitations of their information system to keep up with changes to prices and contracts, when they discovered DataPros for Healthcare’s pricePAL™ solution. Since the initial development, DataPros for Healthcare has been able to gain acceptance in the market and improve the product with five other early adopters. “We have been able to leverage the success at Hershey with other major academic institutions to fully develop the contracts, spend analytic, and custom reporting features of the product,” explained Allen Esses, president of DataPros for Healthcare. “In the current cost savings environment, the appetite for this type of solution is stronger than ever.”
WHO WE ARE… Founded in 2003, DataPros for Healthcare is the leading independent data cleansing company in the United States. DataPros for Healthcare is a fast-growing company employing more than 50 people with its headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The company provides data cleansing, data management and a range of consulting services for hospitals and integrated delivery networks across the country. We are engaged by GS1 Healthcare US, the organization that implements the GS1 global data standards for healthcare, to write the roadmap for the adoption and implementation of the Global Data Standardization Network (GDSN) throughout the healthcare industry.