Specialty Pharmacy Patient Status Data Quality Challenges and Solutions

Without visibility into each individual patient journey, your specialty brand cannot consistently intervene to help patients overcome barriers to therapy initiation and adherence. Today, the poor quality of specialty patient status data is making it impossible to calculate accurate KPI metrics and uncover true patient journey insights. This blog post examines in detail three critical patient status data quality challenges and recommends solutions your specialty brand can implement to overcome these challenges, and ultimately, help patients start therapy faster and stay on therapy longer.

Tags: patient journey, Patient Journey Analytics, Patient Journey Modeling, Specialty Data Aggregation, Specialty Patient Status Data

December 12, 2018 | Gary Palgon

Looking to 2019 from the Life Sciences Trade and Channel Strategic Conference

In this post IntegriChain Senior Vice President of Sales, Gary Palgon, shares the trending topic's from the 2018 CBI Life Sciences Trade & Channel conference held in Philadelphia, Pa December 11-12.

Tags: patient journey, specialty data strategies, Specialty Pharmacy

December 10, 2018 | Brandon Underwood

Five Steps to a Better Specialty Pharmacy Data Contracting Strategy

An effective specialty data contracting strategy starts at the finish line and works backward. The decisions made in terms of data fields, sub-status granularity, reporting frequency, and contact language, determine the metric outputs that are possible. This post looks at how the right specialty data contracting decisions enable diagnostic patient journey insights that help specialty brands save patient days of therapy.

Tags: patient journey, Patient Journey Analytics, Specialty Data Aggregation, Specialty Data Contracting, Specialty Patient Status Data

August 3, 2018 | Sean McCarthy

3 Key Opportunities to Improve Specialty Patient Initiation

There are several ways specialty brands can improve patient initiation by implementing data-driven patient support strategies. Successful interventions to streamline patient initiation have the potential to speed Time to First Fill and increase overall Fill Rate for new patient referrals. Each key opportunity to improve patient initiation is related to a friction point in the patient journey. In this post, IntegriChain Patient Access Segment Leader Sean McCarthy provides an overview of these key opportunities and the potential of analytics to unlock efficiencies for specialty brands.

Tags: Bridge Program, Forced Transfers, Patient initiation, patient journey, Prior Authorization, Specialty Pharmacy, Time to Fill

March 21, 2017 | Brandon Underwood

Specialty Pharmacy Status/Sub-Status Analysis Highlights Inconsistencies in Data Quality

Brandon Underwood offers a sneak peek at IntegriChain's upcoming Specialty Analytics benchmark report. IntegriChain examined the quality and granularity of status/sub-status data across 40 specialty pharmacies representing different classes of trade (small independent, mid-sized payer, large PBM, etc.). The records we combed through included 15 specialty brands in five therapeutic categories: Immunology, Hematology, Virology, Oncology, and Pulmonary/Respiratory. Overall, IntegriChain and ProMetrics analyzed more than 657,000 sub-status records reported in Q4 2016. The brands we studied had comparable status/sub-status reporting requirements.

Tags: benchmark report, data confidence, patient journey, Specialty Pharmacy