Here are five things to know:
1. The tool utilizes pharmacy-levered population health management to coordinate the prescription drug therapy and medical care.
2. The tool was designed to lower healthcare costs by enhancing patient health status.
3. RX Risk Management identifies drug therapy problems, provides a means to resolve issues and validates actual prescription and medical savings.
4. The tool analyzes the patient data via a dynamic algorithm-based analysis to flag drug therapy problems.
5. In 2014, healthcare accounted for 17.5 percent of gross domestic product, a 17.3 percent increase from 2013.
“Rx Risk Management takes a team approach to reducing healthcare costs by engaging patient, pharmacy and physician in changing patient behaviors to enhance health status and reduce drug therapy problems,” said George B. Salem, chairman and CEO, Proxsys Rx. “It’s a win-win. Patients are healthier when they stick to their prescription drug regimens, and healthcare costs are reduced.”
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