Azina

Unleash the Powerful Potential Inside Your Health System

Given the complexities of today’s healthcare environment, it is rare that we meet a specialty pharmacy that is keeping pace with the dramatic clinical, operational, governmental and financial dynamics of the sector. Leading-edge facilities in the contemporary landscape seek visibility to future opportunities - to leveraging new developments in specialty and ambulatory pharmacy to create a best-in-class offering. Ideally, their efforts produce a specialty pharmacy result in improved patient care capabilities that make a favorable contribution to the bottom line. Despite the desired outcome, however, hospitals and health systems nationwide often do not know where to start.

We make it our business to know – providing leadership and expertise to facilities looking to unleash the powerful potential of their specialty and ambulatory opportunity. With the specialty drug market projected to hit $250 billion in 2020 and represent greater than 50% of all drug spend, is your pharmacy set up to manage your patients’ needs?

Though facilities are aligned to deliver care and better outcomes to patients with chronic diseases, specialty pharmacy poses critical challenges for delivering effective care:

• Specialty medications often come at a high cost - most over $2,000 per fill
• Less than two percent of the patient population requires specialty drugs
• Specialty medications are often associated with complex administration and compliance issues
• Product manufacturers may choose to limit specialty drug distribution

Azina brings a winning formula to address contemporary specialty pharmacy challenges – bringing leadership and clarity to hospitals and health systems in this dramatically changing landscape.

Azina: Your Ambulatory Strategy Solution
Azina delivers a unique offering of solutions to optimize your ambulatory strategy and achieve your specialty pharmacy goals. Our services deliver benefits in the arenas of retail pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, and infusion services – providing dynamic value:

Retail Pharmacy

• Providing expertise and resources to support the development of retail capabilities
• Supporting the alignment of the retail pharmacy with population health and organizational goals

Turnkey Specialty Pharmacy

• Providing full support from the initial business case through launch and ongoing management
• Leveraging national experts for leadership to meet various needs in the development
• Delivering specialty patient management powered by Therigy software technology

Infusion Services

• Providing deep expertise to align infusion services with ambulatory strategies
• Ensuring appropriate ‘site of care’ infusion services are optimized for proper reimbursement

Tailored Planning for Best-in-Class Pharmacy
Our service lines are supported by unique Azina capabilities and comprehensive planning. Our results are delivered through deliberate, tailored planning:

• Strategy - We first analyze the client hospital opportunity. We assess payor mix, 340B opportunities and more. From there, we craft your specialty pharmacy strategy
• Design – We create a facility plan that incorporates your existing retail pharmacy into a redesign or new build-out. We oversee the facility’s construction, including a communications center, IT infrastructure, and telepharmacy.
• Operations – We review and support all retail pharmacy functions and revenue cycle management. We oversee the creation of a specialty pharmacy team, including training and certification, while enabling integration with the patient care team. We also collaborate to create marketing solutions for specialty pharmacy.
• Growth – We obtain dual accreditation & ensure compliance within 9 months of the go-live date. We leverage our expertise to provide intelligence to drive your specialty pharmacy business. Added value is provided through driving payer contracting solutions and interfacing with manufacturers regarding limited distribution drugs.

Leverage our Specialty and Ambulatory Pharmacy Expertise
Knowing the challenges for facilities looking to craft their specialty pharmacy strategy, the Azina team is driven to achieve results. Our team of industry experts ensures that your program positioned for success and supported by industry leaders with decades of combined experience. Leverage our collective expertise – and unleash the powerful potential inside your health system.

National Association of Specialty Pharmacy

The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy™ (NASP™), founded in 2012, represents specialty pharmacy professionals in all practice settings and highlights the unique value our members bring to patients and the healthcare system. NASP is focused on building collaboration among all organizations involved in specialty pharmacy to deliver the benefits and services needed to improve patient outcomes.

NASP has a strong vision, innovative and motivated leaders, and an inspired mission-exactly what the specialty pharmacy industry needs.

Specialty pharmacy is the fastest growing segment in the industry today. Innovations in drug discovery, drug delivery systems, advanced monitoring techniques, and informatics have all increased the need for advanced specialty pharmacy. NASP provides the platform for clinical, scientific, and business exchange for all specialty pharmaceutical stakeholders and fosters collaborative initiatives to align the goals of all stakeholders.

As an organization, we are committed to advancing the profession by supporting the importance of professional certification through the Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board (SPCB). NASP meets the needs of a growing membership by creating a strong, unified voice for the industry. Members receive unmatched educational and networking opportunities through the Specialty Pharmacy Conference and Specialty Pharmacy Education Center (SPEC), which offers more than 300 hours of education specific to specialty pharmacy. Learn more about the benefits for individual and corporate members.

To learn more about the benefits for individual and corporate members, log onto our website at www.nasprx.org.

AdvanceNet Health Solutions continues to dominate the prescription dispensing marketplace with its full featured, enterprise, open source pharmacy management software, ePostRx™.
ePostRx™ currently supports the following business models:

• High Volume Mail Order
• Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
• Specialty Pharmacy
• Chain Retail
• Veterinary
• Hospice

All on the same single code base! The system also supports the automatic routing of prescriptions for clients with multiple facilities.

All our open source ePostRx products and services are built from the ground up using the latest web enterprise technologies and open source projects. Because we employ a three-tier architecture model, our solutions can be configured and scaled to meet the enterprise needs of any client network. Utilizing an open architecture philosophy, the system will seamlessly integrate into your current IT landscape. Published web services and API’s are available through the View Supporting Materials Link below.

ePostRx™ also offers an integrated e-prescribed solution to our enterprise pharmacy management software, ePostRx™. Fully certified on SureScript 10.6, the electronic prescribing solution includes automated Prescriber Download functionality. The current solution automates the receipt of the electronic prescription in the workflow manager, incorporating matching logic for the patient, to streamline dispensing, with minimal user interaction.

Outbound physician contact incorporates the data in the Prescriber download directory to make the determination if the physician is eligible for electronic contact. When the prescriber is not eligible for electronic contact, the system will default to fax communications.

At AdvanceNet Health Solutions (ANSHealth), we're dedicated to being the world's premier e-Pharmacy technology company. Our ePostRx product enables pharmacies to facilitate higher fulfillment volumes, enhance patient care and increase profitability by supporting multiple business models, including Electronic Scripts, DME dispensing, Specialty Pharmacy, Mail-Order and Central Fill. ePostRx™ is the healthcare industry's first and only open source, enterprise pharmacy solution licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL). So if your business requires:

• Prescription Fulfillment/Management Software
• ePrescribing /Management Software
• Pharmacy Operations & Technology Consulting
• Open source technology consulting and Project Development.

Then contact ANSHealth and get involved with the ePostRx community today!

Asembia's annual Specialty Pharmacy Summit attracts thousands of industry executives and professionals to participate in business workshops, educational seminars, exhibits, and live continuing education credits, along with numerous networking and social events. Attendees gain an in-depth understanding of all aspects of specialty pharmacy from renowned industry speakers who share insight about the most current information on the many facets of the more than $150 billion specialty pharmacy channel.

From pharmacy owners and C-Suite executives to purchasing agents and national account managers, Summit attendees represent a diverse blend of the industry’s most influential thought leaders and key decision-makers. The broad variety of timely business and educational sessions, wide range of expert speakers, and extensive networking opportunities make the Asembia annual conference an essential event for all health care professionals. For more information, visit www.asembiasummit.com.

Asembia
In addition to hosting the Summit, as the leading services provider to the specialty pharmacy industry, Asembia collaborates with specialty pharmacies, manufacturers, prescribers, payers and other industry stakeholders to bring strategic channel management solutions, leading-edge products and high-touch services to the specialty pharmacy industry that help our customers optimize patient care and outcomes. Learn more at www.asembia.com.