Combine: See primary and secondary care spend and volume data in one place
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As NHS primary and secondary care services come together under recently introduced integrated care systems (ICS) new opportunities are being created to maximise savings on medicines and adopt best prescribing practices.
Sharing data across integrated care systems will be an essential tool in achieving these aims. A new computer software package, Rx-info’s Combine makes this possible for the first time.
The Combine medicines data analysis tool uses Rx-info expertise in data standardisation and medicines data software so that all ICS prescribing practice is reportable and can be analysed and understood.
Data can be reported all the way to presentation level and shows the actual price paid (rather than indicative prices).
The data can answer all key ICS medicines metrics such as:
New technology uptake
Biosimilar uptake impacts
Antimicrobial stewardship markers
This means that the spend and prescribing practices covering both primary and secondary care can be monitored and compared, demonstrating where savings can be made and improved practices adopted, for the benefit of patients.
It will also enable health care practitioners to benchmark prescribing…
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