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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Automated Dose Rounding Yields $3.6 Million in Savings

By Jillian Mock

Integrating an automatic dose-rounding policy into an electronic health record (EHR) system can lead to millions in cost savings on oncology infusions, according to an abstract presented at the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) 2020 virtual conference.

Researchers at Michigan Medicine developed a system that automatically rounded doses that were within 10% of the nearest vial size when physicians placed electronic orders for infusions of monoclonal antibodies and