Three years ago, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) trimmed several million dollars from a multimillion-dollar drug budget by using a pharmacy-designed algorithm that searched the complex drug pricing universe to bring the best values to the surface. The software engine that drove those savings has since been spun off by MUSC into a separate enterprise called QuicksortRx, and its pharmacy spending benefit has been expanded to other health systems and hospitals
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021