Drug Shortage Navigator
Provides you automated recommendations for identifying and minimizing shortages impact across the health system, allowing you to identify, forecast, and act on drug shortages to stay ahead of them, rather than getting buried by them.
Know where your inventory is, who is driving the demand and where, what alternatives you can buy, and even what other hospitals are doing to manage the shortage so you can prioritize drug spending and staff time.
Predict. Prepare. Manage Like Never Before.
Drug Shortage Navigator
Provides you automated recommendations for identifying and minimizing shortages impact across the health system, allowing you to identify, forecast, and act on drug shortages to stay ahead of them, rather than getting buried by them.
Know where your inventory is, who is driving the demand and where, what alternatives you can buy, and even what other hospitals are doing to manage the shortage so you can prioritize drug spending and staff time.
Predict. Prepare. Manage Like Never Before.
Gain the critical lead time to prepare for and manage drug shortages through full visibility into the use of all medications by integrating data from wholesalers, dispensing systems, EHRs, and more into a unified and system-wide view of drug usage and inventory status. You can effectively manage shortages like never before.

Key Benefits:
Smarter Drug Shortage Management At Your Fingertips
- Leverages collective knowledge of other health systems, publicly available and proprietary drug shortage sources, and actual purchasing and utilization data to identify potential and actual drug shortage products
- Provides suggestions for alternative products peer health systems are adopting to manage a shortage and where to get them. e.g., 503Bs like Quva, secondary suppliers, etc.
- AI-powered models forecast drug shortages weeks in advance by comparing your actual utilization, days on hand, and prescribing trends vs other health systems.
- Provides automated messaging recommendations for purchasing adjustments / inventory rebalancing across the health-system and all sites of care.
- Establishes an audit trail of all actions which are maintained for future reference and use.
- A natural complement to our Supply Advisor solution given the common inventory and utilization data sets powering both solutions
- Drug Shortage Navigator identifies your product hot spots at risk for going on shortage and flags what to manage
- Risk is based on your health system’s Days Inventory on Hand vs the rolling 30-day utilization of those products across your system (i.e., True-Use Tracker TM)
- Red box products should be managed because they have high 30-day administration rates and lower days on hand
- Green area is no concern because ample inventory is shown across your system to cover the 30-day administration rate; Yellow is a watch list of products
- Updated in real time based upon drug administrations and inventory levels being tracked through your own data systems
- Drug Shortage Navigator identifies your product hot spots at risk for going on shortage and flags what to manage
- Risk is based on your health system’s Days Inventory on Hand vs the rolling 30-day utilization of those products across your system (i.e., True-Use Tracker TM)
- Red box products should be managed because they have high 30-day administration rates and lower days on hand
- Green area is no concern because ample inventory is shown across your system to cover the 30-day administration rate; Yellow is a watch list of products
- Updated in real time based upon drug administrations and inventory levels being tracked through your own data systems
- Go beyond drugs on shortage—our collective data even gives you supply side insights so you know how you are doing on fill rate for all drugs of interest vs the market
- The system monitors your fill rate %, benchmarked against the broader market’s fill rate % , on a range of products of interest
- Products where your health system may be running into a risky situation on future supply vs the market will be flagged for you to watch—red dots
- You can then assess your current supplier and or secondary supplier access and take action to manage at risk products
Go Beyond Shortages: Total Drug Supply Management
Your pharmacy manages thousands of medications, not just those in short supply. Quva gives you full-spectrum oversight of all drug usage, combining:
- Purchasing data from wholesalers
- Inventory and transactions from dispensing systems
- Ordering and administration data from EHRs
- And more…
Drug Shortage Navigator is a natural complement to and works seamlessly with our Supply Advisor solution—both powered by the same data engine. Together, they provide a 360° view of inventory, demand, and utilization to maximize pharmacy efficiency and resiliency.
Always have the full picture and don’t let the next shortage catch you off guard. Let us show you how the Drug Shortage Navigator can transform your pharmacy’s approach to shortages.