Sapphire EHR Virtual Clinical Pharmacy Module
What Is It?
Diamond Pharmacy Services has teamed with Sapphire Health to develop a unique clinical module in an effort to enhance the clinical services currently provided.
Through the Virtual Clinical Pharmacy Module, our clinical pharmacists are able to collaboratively work with onsite providers to provide patient care that optimizes medication therapy and promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention. Additionally, our clinical pharmacists emphasize the core aspects of evidence based, safe, appropriate, and cost-effective recommendations through real time recommendations within the Sapphire Health Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Why Use It?
Example Process
Prescriber opens the Clinical Pharmacist Consultation Request form.
Prescriber selects Initial Consult and the types of consults needed.
Email alert/internal Sapphire message is sent to the pharmacist.
Pharmacist reviews request, completes and submits the relevant follow up form.
Form goes into the Form Response Signoffs queue for provider review.
Prescriber review/signoff
Prescriber follows up with patient or prescriber requests pharmacist to follow up with patient.
Additional Services
Who It Benefits
Patients
Patients can benefit from the virtual clinical pharmacist program. Diamond’s clinical pharmacists are able to apply up to date evidence based medicine to each consult. Additionally it allows for an additional set of eyes to be placed on each patient with the goals of providing the best clinical outcome and patient education.
Nursing
Can reduce the workload associated with medication reconciliation and provide appropriate medication administration directions. Focus on minimizing administration frequency, optimizing pill calls per patient, and an added layer of clinical pharmacy education for the nurses allows nurses more time to focus in on other important patient medical modalities.
Site Providers
Patients can benefit from the virtual clinical pharmacist program. Diamond’s clinical pharmacists are able to apply up to date evidence based medicine to each consult. Additionally it allows for an additional set of eyes to be placed on each patient with the goals of providing the best clinical outcome and patient education.
Chief Financial Officer
Cost-effective targeted spending for implementation of clinical services. Implementation does not increase current contract spending and consult charges are only based on the use of the service. No need to hire additional onsite staff but can allow for an assessment of clinical service needs. Focused formulary implementation and improvement in adherence to prescriptive practices which can off set and potentially decrease off site overall healthcare costs.
Chief Medical Officer
Assistance from clinical pharmacists with a background in correctional medicine. Allow for targeted implementation of clinical initiatives particularly in teams with high turnover. Minimization of off-formulary requests and improvement in appropriate cost-effective therapy, improvement in overall patient health care and improvement in provider education. Allows your providers more time to focus in on other important patient medical modalities as well as improve their efficiency of overseeing a medical unit.