Shortage Navigator

Key Benefits:

Earlier Awareness: AI-driven forecasting alerts you to shortages weeks in advance, based on actual utilization, prescribing behavior, inventory trends across your network, and our proprietary data.

Save Time & Money: Automatically surface where your inventory sits, who’s driving demand, and what alternatives are available, and even where you can purchase alternatives like from 503Bs (e.g., Quva) or secondary suppliers.

Powerful Workflows & Communication Tools: Ensure care continuity by coordinating drug use and alternatives across all sites of care. Easily coordinate and automate communication and actions with built in workflow tools.

Benchmark Performance: Compare your shortage exposure and response efforts to other health systems and hospitals nationwide.

Drug shortages are a persistent challenge for hospital and health system pharmacies, with facilities managing an average of 43 drugs shortages at any given time. Shortages put pressure on budgets and introduce clinical risks, causing three-quarters of pharmacies to exceed their budgets, along with disruptions to planned medical procedures and hospital admissions. Our predictive shortage solution combines AI-driven forecasting, our proprietary True-Use^TM tracker, and integrated workflow and communication tools into tailored insights and smarter allocation strategies – helping you stay ahead of shortages and supply disruptions, while saving time and money.

Save staff time with Insights and Communication

Early Predictions

Prescribing and Utilization Insights

Communication and Collaboration

Early Predictions

Predictive model continuously monitors market conditions and wholesaler fill rates, providing early warning of supply disruptions that are most likely to affect your health system. Our large customer base feeds the accuracy of the predictive model, leveraging the experience and inputs of 3,500+ Quva customers.

Prescribing and Utilization Insights

Insights tab shows how shortage drugs appear in order sets, drug substitution alerts and other prescribing patterns so you can make adjustments as needed to minimize impact to patient care

Communication and Collaboration

Provides a platform for collaboration between pharmacy and the entire clinical staff across the health system to inform them about status and prescribing guidelines, and assign and monitor tasks

Reduce Overspending with Customized Strategies

True-Use^TM Tracker

Strategy Archive

True-Use^TM Tracker

True-Use^TM Tracker determines actual drug usage in patient care based on administrations (vs wholesaler purchases which can be inaccurate due to buying spikes)

Strategy Archive

Shortage management strategies and tactics are archived for easy reference and activation when a shortage reoccurs

Insights into a shortage product are consolidated and surfaced into a dashboard so you can target areas to manage
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. utilization of those products across your system (i.e., True-Use Tracker ^TM)
Identifies with whom and from where utilization is being driven so you can take actions at the HCP and department level
Updated in real time based upon drug administrations and inventory levels being tracked through your own data systems
Embedded workflows enable actions to be easily communicated (e.g., move inventory between hospitals; create alerts for providers to use alternative products, etc.)

Shortage Navigator Manage Shortage Risk Factors

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
You can assess your current supplier and or secondary supplier access and take action to manage at risk products

Annual Savings

$2.6M

Large Health System

$450k

Medium Health System

Staff Time Savings

8,000 hrs

Large Health System

2,000 hrs

Medium Health System

33 shortages

Predicted ahead of ASHP in 2024

Less than 1 Minute

Time to communicate shortage to their system

"A severe shortage of Omnipaque had us manually managing our daily supply with spreadsheets to determine which imaging procedures we could perform, which had a significant impact on our patients."

"We had a home-grown drug shortage management solution that required considerable time to maintain, so we evaluated 3rd-party vendors … I made the business case to Finance that BrightStream was more cost-effective than doing it ourselves."

"BrightStream deserves extra kudos for the EHR integration. That's what I'd be shouting from the rooftops. It's not just getting information about your purchases. It's really getting to utilization, which is the hardest to wrap your arms around."

"Shortage Navigator helps us save time. The communication workflows make it easy to share information with our team."

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…

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.

Shortage Navigator

Shortage Navigator

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