Your First 15 Minutes
A guided first session: look up a drug, screen the cliff, save a lead list, and start monitoring.
Follow this once and you will have touched every part of Qope that matters.
1. Sign in and land on Home
After sign-in you arrive at Home. It shows, in order:
- Workspace panels -- your Radar watchlist and your lead lists, if you have any. These are hidden until you create something.
- Start from a question -- shortcut cards into the intelligence views, with live counts (drugs currently short, patent listings, cliff years).
- Aggregate tiles -- record counts per dataset, top states, an ownership breakdown, a specialty breakdown, and your pinned and recently browsed records.
Home is a launcher, not a dashboard. Nothing on it needs configuring.
2. Look up a drug
Click Look up a drug in the top right of Home, or open Drug Intelligence > Drug Profile in the sidebar.
Type a brand or generic name. Qope resolves brand names to the underlying molecule, so searching a brand and searching its ingredient land on the same profile.
Read the Overview tab first, then The Verdict -- that tab states, in plain language, what the market position of this drug is right now.
Click the Watch button in the header. The molecule is now on your Radar.
3. Screen the patent cliff
Open Drug Intelligence > Patent Cliff.
The default Cliff wave tab lists upcoming loss-of-exclusivity events by year. Each row carries a contestability chip:
- Greenfield -- no generic actively marketed. First-mover opening.
- Open -- a few generics marketed.
- Crowded -- several competing.
- Eroded -- heavily genericized, margins already compressed.
Filter mentally to Greenfield and Open in the next two years. That is your shortlist.
4. Check supply fragility
Open Drug Intelligence > Shortages Tracker and go to the Supply gaps tab.
This ranks active shortages by supplier fragility multiplied by Medicare Part D prescribing breadth multiplied by how long the shortage has run. Turn on Structural only to see just single-source and thin-supply molecules -- the shortages caused by there being nobody else to make the drug.
If a molecule appears on both your cliff shortlist and this list, that is the strongest signal Qope produces.
5. Build a lead list
Open any table under Databases -- Providers is a good start. Filter it (State, Primary Specialty), then click Save as list in the header. That creates a lead list from your current filter.