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This HFMA blog by Ken Perez, Omnicell's VP Healthcare Policy, discusses several long-term implications for the nation's health system post COVID-19.

Omnicell's Director of Clinical Healthcare Strategy, Rebecca Chater, provides insight to what community pharmacies can do to help fight COVID-19 in this First Report Managed Care article.

Danny Sanchez, VP and GM, Population Health Services at Omnicell, shares his insight on the state of the pharmacy industry in this Drug Store News article (page 78).

In this Scottsdale Institute article, Ken Perez, VP Healthcare Policy at Omnicell, addresses the question, "Is technology being used, applied and supplying benefit?"

This HFMA Blog discusses two areas where partisan roadblocks have prevented Congress from enacting solutions to the nation’s ongoing healthcare policy challenges: prescription drug costs and healthcare price transparency.

In this Healthcare Purchasing News article, Editor, Rick Dana Barlow, takes a deep dive into what customers are looking for in the automated storage cabinet space.

In this Physicians Practice article, Gee Mathen of Texas Children’s Hospital discusses how pharmacy automation has driven significant improvement in pharmacy operations and has also provided substantial benefits to physicians.

In this Pharmacy Purchasing & Products article, Berkley Sykes, PharmD, Pharmacy Operations Manager, Huntsville Hospital, talks about how safety and cost savings drove their decision to implement IV compounding robots in their pharmacy.

In this Becker’s Hospital Review article, Editor, Laura Dyrda, lists 15 things health systems do today that will become obsolete due to technology.

This Healthcare IT Today article by Gee Mathen, Assistant Director of Pharmacy Applications and Technical Services, Texas Children’s Hospital, discusses how they used automation to minimize dosing risks unique to pediatric care, realize real-time inventory visibility and control, and save millions of dollars annually.

Healthcare IT Today Editor, John Lynn interviews Mark Sullivan, Executive Director, Pharmacy Operations at Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics about the parallels between his pharmacy challenges and those of IT in hospitals and clinics.

Voice technology and supported devices present a unique opportunity to connect patients with their local pharmacies and engage them in unprecedented ways. Learn more in this article by Danny Sanchez in First Report Managed Care magazine.

Danny Sanchez, VP and GM, Population Health Services, Omnicell, discusses how technology is bringing pharmacists closer to their patients. This video was filmed by Pharmacy Times at the 2019 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting & Exhibition.

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD, Peninsula Regional Health System, discusses how moving the preparation of IV medications to the pharmacy is a proven method for reducing errors. Read this whitepaper in Pharmacy Purchasing & Products.

Medication error can be greatly reduced by moving IV preparation to the pharmacy. Read this whitepaper by Kevin Hansen, PharmD, MS, BCPS, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, published in Pharmacy Purchasing & Products, to learn more.

This HFMA article by Omnicell’s VP of Healthcare Policy discusses the issue of high prescription drug prices.