The Future of Pharmacy Podcast

Learn how Bausch Health and Omnicell Specialty Pharmacy Services worked together to improve adherence to XIFAXAN, a specialty medication used to treat overt hepatic encephalopathy (OHE), by expediting the prior authorization process and conducting in-depth medication counseling.

Recent technological advances have provided a solution to historical challenges with IV automation. These enhancements allow technicians to increase production and support greater accuracy while reducing human error or variation risks. Huntsville Hospital in Alabama was faced with a choice to implement IV automation. To answer that question, they had to go back a decade to their primary goals, which, both then and today, are safety and savings. IV robotics helps bring those two goals together.

Learn from industry experts how pharmacy automation and an intelligent infrastructure transform medication management to support better care and outcomes for mother-baby, pediatric, and patient populations.

COVID-19 has reminded us of the importance of nurses in our lives and why we must invest in them. Because of high demand and limited supply, there is a nursing shortage in the United States. Learn from prominent healthcare experts how to limit the impact of nursing shortages by leveraging intelligent infrastructure, automation, and data intelligence.

In the struggle to keep up with everyday demand, health system pharmacies must overcome disparate data systems, inadequate information flow, and incongruous workarounds that greatly reduce inventory accuracy. Find out how pharmacy leaders are breaking down these data siloes with advanced analytical tools that provide visibility, insight, and workflow enhancements, leading to inventory optimization and cost reduction.

As retail pharmacy continues to expand its critical role in the patient’s healthcare journey, it has become increasingly important to streamline and automate inefficient pharmacy operations to free up pharmacists’ time to focus on patient care. Learn how pharmacies are leveraging advanced digital technologies that enable them to improve patient engagement, optimize revenue performance, and deliver high-value clinical services.

The Operating Room is a dynamic setting. The medications used are high risk and need immediate monitoring and oversight. At any moment, a patient’s condition can turn critical.Find out how pharmacy solutions help to ensure drug availability, auditing, reconciliation, compliance, and patient safety.

You can reverse your reliance on 503B providers and cut back on manual sterile compounding safety issues by bringing advanced IV robotics on site—along with the experts to run them. Learn how two major metropolitan hospitals, beset by supply chain and labor constraints, did just that. The result is a strategic services operation delivering advanced CSP services across their organizations, resulting in improved safety, increased efficiencies, and significant cost savings.

Persistent labor shortages are forcing health system pharmacy leaders to rethink their operational and clinical choices. Learn how innovative leaders at Owensboro Health are sidestepping labor issues, up-leveling clinical programs, and optimizing medication management processes with advanced robotics and software operated by dedicated on-site resident experts.

You can’t manage what you can’t see. When pharmacy leaders at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and their teams made their medication inventories visible through intelligent data solutions, they were able to make better decisions for their patients, workflow, compliance, and financial performance.

More health systems are adopting assistive and robotic technologies to safely and accurately compound sterile preparations. Now, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices is partnering with early adopters of these technologies to draft best practice guidelines so all can share in their knowledge and insights.

The Autonomous Pharmacy Advisory Board has launched a free, self-assessment tool to help health system pharmacy leaders determine current state performance against five key dimensions: safety, efficiency, regulatory compliance, financial performance, and human resource management. Learn how pharmacy leaders from Baptist Health are using their self-assessment results as a strategic tool to chart a pathway to achieving a fully autonomous pharmacy.

Central pharmacy is the hub of care that patients and providers depend on

Get updates on how policy and legal developments could impact the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Pharmacy data analytics is no longer enough. To drive improvements in medication inventory optimization, waste reduction, and drug diversion monitoring, you need to leverage predictive and prescriptive technology through a cloud data platform that consolidates information across the medication management process. Learn what this could mean for you.

The Autonomous Pharmacy Advisory Board has launched a free, self-assessment tool to help health system pharmacy leaders determine current state performance againstfive key dimensions: safety, efficiency, regulatory compliance, financial performance, and human resource management. Learn how pharmacy leaders from Baptist Health are using their self-assessment results as a strategic tool to chart a pathway to achieving a fully autonomous pharmacy.

Learn how pharmacy innovators are overcoming technician turnover headaches with new, subscription models that provide the technology, plus dedicated, vendor-provided labor, integrated best practices, and expert services, helping them to realize the full benefits of pharmacy automation. 

When you invest in technology, you have high hopes that successful adoption will lead to improved pharmacy performance. But, how do you measure successful adoption? How can you be sure your technology is making a difference? Often, many fall into a trap of measuring too much in an attempt to measure technology implementation process and performance. As a result, the value and effectiveness of the metrics get diluted. Learn how aligning with your technology partner on key clinical, operational, and business metrics at the outset of the project can set you up for long-term success. 

As a source of funding for vital patient care, the Federal 340B Drug Pricing Program is as important as ever. It also can be increasingly complicated with frequent changes in compliance and reporting requirements.

Health systems are continuously being challenged to ensure IV preparations are prepared safely and accurately while complying with increasingly complex regulations. As a result, many rely on 503B outsourcing pharmacies to provide the vast majority of pre-mixed compounded sterile products. But as product shortages and pricing fluctuations in this supply chain become more acute, it actually puts more pressure on pharmacy staffs and budget. Learn how Allegheny Health Network innovated using advanced technology and the use of expert technicians to run it, leading to enhanced safety, improved practices, and cost savings.

Technology aided processes are proven to be safer and more accurate when compounding sterile products. Yet, the overwhelming majority of U.S. health systems currently use manual methods. The implications can be disastrous. Learn how a tragic medication error has inspired our guests to become advocates for safe IV compounding practices—and why technology is a cornerstone of their message.

Technology aided processes are proven to be safer and more accurate when compounding sterile products. Yet, the overwhelming majority of U.S. health systems currently use manual methods. The implications can be disastrous. Learn how a tragic medication error has inspired our guests to become advocates for safe IV compounding practices—and why technology is a cornerstone of their message.

Every day it seems, health system pharmacy leaders face new challenges. Learn how the Autonomous Pharmacy is intended to simplify medication management, and enable pharmacists and other clinicians to practice at the top of their licenses.