Drug Formulary Management Software

Key Benefits of Drug Formulary Management:

Protect care continuity during planned and unplanned EHR downtime.

Reduce risk stemming from IT outages.

Ensure clinician access to order sets and treatment protocols through sharable PDFs.

Healthcare teams are under pressure to deliver safe, efficient, and evidence-based care. Disparate healthcare systems and large, complex EHR data sets bury answers under hours of manual reconciliation and investigation, slowing you down and increasing the risk of making the wrong decision. On top of this, IT outages and EHR downtimes can cost health systems as much as a million dollars per hour and put care at risk from lack of access to the order sets and therapeutic protocols that clinicians rely on to provide confident care.

Clinical Process Optimizer helps improve operational efficiency for medication use evaluations, order set reviews, and formulary management. Our order set continuity functionality automatically tracks and backs up all order sets and protocols – creating usable pdfs that help you maintain care continuity, operational efficiency, and minimize the extraordinary risk and cost of EHR downtime.

"The EHR dashboard analytics are not very good, and it requires considerable time for my team to pull and analyze EHR data. If we do it ourselves, it takes 3 weeks. If we have a third-party pull it for us, it takes 3 days. Neither of which is particularly on-demand or convenient."

Order Set Continuity

Streamline Formulary Management

Support Medication Use Evaluations

Order Set Continuity

Automatically keep track of and back up the current version of all electronic order sets and protocols – eliminating the need to rely on outdated business continuity systems and processes that aren’t designed for clinical efficiency. Generate a full library of clinician-friendly, facility-specific documentation – ready to use in an accessible and easily sharable PDF format.

Streamline Formulary Management

Monitor prescribing and dispensing activity to maintain an up-to-date and real-world formulary. Evaluate drug formulary adherence at any level of the organization, from individual prescribers to the clinic or unit to the entire entity. Track all medication utilization trends to assure cost efficiency and adherence to formulary decisions.

Support Medication Use Evaluations

Monitor order sets, clinical decision support, documentation tools, nursing, lab and imaging orders. Track adherence to established care pathways and protocols by patient population, care provider, clinic, unit, region, or the entire entity. Explore the impact on Length of Stay, Mortality, and Readmissions.

Monitor order sets, clinical decision support, documentation tools, nursing, lab and imaging orders.
Track adherence to established care pathways and protocols by patient population, care provider, clinic, unit, region or the entire entity.
Evaluate nearby time-based or workflow-based practices to understand patterns to integrate into protocol decision making.
Compare use of any protocol or pathway within patient populations and compare populations to one another.
Explore the impact of protocols and pathways and adherence on Length of Stay, Mortality and Readmissions.

Clinical Process Optimizer eliminates complexity and reduces operational risk by presenting all of your data for all sites of care in one place – streamlining collaboration and coordination to help you make faster, smarter decisions and ensuring continued access during outages and downtimes.

Support Medication Use Evaluations

The systematic monitoring and review of prescribing, dispensing, and administration data across orders sets and clinical protocols is an essential interdisciplinary process for optimizing care and improving outcomes.

Support Med Use Evaluations,
Streamline Formulary Mgmt, and
Ensure Clinical Efficiency and Care Continuity
Monitor order sets, clinical decision support, documentation tools, nursing, lab imaging orders and drug formularies.
Track adherence to established care pathways and protocols by patient population, care provider, clinic, unit, region or the entire entity.
Evaluate nearby time-based or workflow-based practices to understand patterns to integrate into protocol decision making.
Compare the use of any protocol or pathway within patient populations and compare populations to one another.
Explore the impact of protocols and pathways and adherence on Length of Stay, Mortality and Readmissions.

"As part of driving efficient and standardized care, we needed visibility into how clinicians were interacting with EHR order sets. We gained approval for the expense because our health system recognizes the importance of clinical standardization."

"We have Clinical Process Optimizer up in our formulary management meetings and the data is at our fingertips. We can see locations, hospitals, and departments very quickly, which meaningfully accelerates our medication use evaluations."

"We learned the hard way during our extended outage that our paper order sets didn’t work. We couldn’t put them in the hands of all the people who needed them. And where we could do that, those people rejected them because they were too hard to decipher. With BrightStream, we’re better prepared for the next outage. Physicians will be able to place orders. The pharmacy will be able to verify orders. Patients will get the meds they need."

How is Quva BrightStream Clinical Process Optimizer different from traditional formulary reference tools?

Traditional formulary tools focus on static drug reference information. Quva BrightStream Clinical Process Optimizer is designed to operationalize formulary strategy, embedding guidance directly into clinical workflows and order sets so decisions are supported at the point of care, not after the fact.

Who typically uses BrightStream Clinical Process Optimizer within an organization?

Quva BrightStream is used across multidisciplinary teams, including pharmacy leadership, clinical informatics, quality and safety teams, and operational leaders. It supports collaboration by aligning clinical, financial, and operational objectives without adding complexity to clinician workflows.

How does BrightStream support change management when formularies are updated?

BrightStream helps organizations manage change by enabling consistent, system-wide updates to clinical processes and order sets. This reduces reliance on manual communication and helps ensure formulary changes are reflected in real-world practice with minimal disruption.

Streamline Formulary Management

Keeping your formulary accurate and current promotes standardization that helps reduce potential medication errors, supports evidence-based care, and helps control drug costs.

Monitor real-time prescribing and dispensing activity to maintain an up to date and real-world formulary.
Evaluate formulary adherence at any level of the organization from individual prescriber to clinic or unit to the entire entity.
Track all medication utilization trends to assure cost efficiency and adherence to formulary decisions.
Support evidence-based formulary decisions using trends and outcomes from your patient care data, including Length of Stay, Mortality, and Re-admissions.
Examine and compare use of any medication within patient populations and compare populations to one another.

Ensure Clinical Efficiency and Care Continuity

Improve clinical confidence during IT and EHR outages and downtimes by deploying a solution beyond your typical (and insufficient) business continuity systems.

Automatically keeps track of and backs up the current version of all electronic order sets and protocols – eliminating the need to rely on outdated business continuity systems and processes that aren’t designed for clinical efficiency
Generates a full library of clinician-friendly, facility-specific documentation – ready to use in an accessible and easily sharable PDF format

IT outages are inevitable, and most health systems are dependent on care protocols for patient care
Unplanned EHR downtime can cost a large hospital up to $1 million per hour¹
The Scripps Health ransomware attack in 2021 cost the health system $112.7M, mainly due to lost revenue, and caused operational disruptions lasting a month²
Automatically keeps track of and backs up all electronic protocols—tracks how many order sets you have protected with backed-up documentation
Generates a full library of clinician-friendly, facility-specific protocols that are ready to use—easily readable format to maintain continuity in clinical care and operations
Enables frontline clinical staff to access to protocols directly for use in patient care
Easily sharable PDFs

1. https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2018/06/18/hospitals-doctors-and-patients-impacted-by-unplanned-ehr-downtime/

2. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/scripps-ransomware-post-mortem-shows-cybersecurity-regional-problem

Clinical Process Optimizer

Clinical Process Optimizer

Key Benefits:

Key Benefits of Drug Formulary Management:

How Drug Forumlary Management Works

Order Set Continuity

Streamline Formulary Management

Support Medication Use Evaluations

Support Medication Use Evaluations

Support Medication Use Evaluations

FAQs about Drug Formulary Management

Streamline Formulary Management

Ensure Clinical Efficiency and Care Continuity

See how we can help you streamline your clinical operations.

Efficient, Collaborative Workflows

Fast Deployment, Minimal IT Effort

Efficient, Collaborative Workflows

Fast Deployment, Minimal IT Effort

Efficient, Collaborative Workflows

Fast Deployment, Minimal IT Effort

Advanced Detection with AI-Driven Insights

Efficient, Collaborative Workflows

Rapid Implementation, Minimal IT Burden

Measurable Results

Annual Purchasing Reductions

$5M

$1.5M

Initial Projected Overspend

$1.4M

Projected Waste Minimization

2%

See how Clinical Process Optimizer helps keep care on track with shareable order sets that work even when your EHR doesn't.