The Future of Pharmacy Podcast
Pharmacy transformation is happening. With The Future of Pharmacy Podcast, you won’t get left in the clouds.
We’re gathering industry innovators, internal experts, and successful health system pharmacy leaders to discuss how technology-driven solutions can help you move closer to zero-error medication management.
Featured Podcasts
January 15, 2021
Podcast Replays
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Optimizing Pharmacy Talent and Technology at Owensboro Health
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.
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Insights and Innovation with Intelligent Pharmacy Data
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.
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First Steps to Compounding Technology
As the safety of compounding practices comes under renewed scrutiny from authoritativebodies, more attention is being paid to assistive and robotic technologies. Learn how a stepped approach to compounding technology can lead to safer, more efficient, and cost effective compounding operations.
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Achieving the Delicate Balance with OR Med Management
Anesthesia providers need easy access to medications in the operating room. Pharmacy needs to keep medications secure. Achieving that delicate balance in the OR pressure cooker between access and accountability requires an aligned vision, dynamic communications, and enabling closed-loop technology.
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A Matter of Medication Distribution Models
Central pharmacy is the hub of care that patients and providers depend on. Which is why pharmacy leaders follow a deliberative, collaborative approach when choosing a medication distribution model. Hear how two pharmacy leaders approached the matter of distribution models and arrived at very different conclusions.
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Making Sense of Today’s 340B Policy Entanglements
Get updates on how policy and legal developments could impact the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
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Get Ready for Data-Driven Medication Management
Pharmacy dashboards are no longer enough. To manage organizational complexity and make better informed decisions, pharmacy leaders need dynamic intelligence tools. Learn how emerging technologies, including predictive and prescriptive analytics, can take medication management to the next level.
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Achieving the Delicate Balance with OR Med Management
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.
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The Leader’s Personalized Pathway to the Autonomous Pharmacy
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.
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The Cure for Resource Headaches? Central Pharmacy Services
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.
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All Health System Pharmacy Metrics ARE NOT Created Equal
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? 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.
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Dynamics of 340B Program Spotlight the Value of Strong Pharmacy-Finance Partnerships
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.
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Allegheny Health Network Innovates IV Medication Management with IV Robotic Technology
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.
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The COVID Vaccine Is Here – How Should Retail Pharmacies Prepare?
As COVID-19 vaccines become available to the general population, retail pharmacies will play a pivotal role in vaccine administration. Learn how Harps Food Stores is implementing key strategies and following best practice recommendations to prepare for increased workload and required safety precautions.
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Planning Your Journey to an Autonomous Pharmacy
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.
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At the Precipice of Retail Pharmacy Transformation
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.
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Advocates for Safe IV Preparation Practices Share Their Inspiration
Technology-aided processes are proven to be safer and more accurate when compounding sterile products. Yet, studies show that just 1 in 4 hospitals use workflow management systems when compounding sterile products. During this episode, discover how a tragic medication error helped to inspire the formation of THRIV—a safety coalition comprised of healthcare providers, consumers and technology developers.
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