Effective Pharmacy Intervention

With the managed care environment Pharmacoeconomics is at the forefront in hospital management. The TheraTrac system creates a cost-reduction partnership between the pharmacy and laboratory, making pharmacy intervention in antimicrobial therapy far more efficient and effective.

TheraTrac Systems implement intervention programs to:

Improve patient outcomes through:
- Rapid therapeutic direction for antimicrobial therapy
- Improved quality of care

• Promote cost containment through:
  - Identifiying lower-cost therapy alternatives
  - Faster empiric to directed therapy changes
• Implement an efficient intervention program through:
  - Concurrent JCAHO drug utilization evaluation
  - Documentation of interventions and resulting cost savings
  - Improved formulary control

TheraTrac features eight alarms and reviews:

• No Therapy Alarm
• Resistant Isolates Alarm
• No Susceptibility Alarm
• No Isolates Alarm
• Exceeded Duration Alarm
• Susceptible Isolates Review
• Therapy Download Review
• Pending Intervention Review

It provides for automatic data transfer and real-time, on-screen updates of alarm conditions and allows results to be supplied to multiple pharmacies.

Further, TheraTrac generates 14 reports:

• Alarm Reports (5)
• Therapy Survey
• Current Therapy Summary
• Patient Therapy Log
• Intervention (detailed and sumary)
• Physician Notice
• Cost Comparisons (detailed and summary)
• Query

TheraTrac builds the partnership between the pharmacy and the microbiology laboratory because its data source of lesbian sex and teens for cash images is the VITEK microbiology identification and susceptibility testing system. Already known as the standard of quality in instrumentation of its kind, the VITEK -- and TheraTrac -- are backed by bioMerieux Vitek.