Gannon Vanscoy, MPBA Candidate

Although many hubs offer similar services, no two specialty pharmacy hubs and no two hub programs are entirely alike.

Artificial intelligence will inevitably play a major role in hub services, improving efficiency and speed to therapy.

Many pharmaceutical manufacturers consider accreditation a prerequisite when either building their network or adding pharmacies to their network.

Pharmacy adjudication systems vary among specialty pharmacies and many limitations still exist across most providers in the market.

For specialty pharmacies, contingency plans for COVID-19 are not as simple as moving a workforce to their remote access solutions.

Due to the uniqueness of each disease state and motivations of each player in the market to capture revenue from the growing industry, there is an abundance of specialty pharmacy solutions available in the market.

Some REMS programs may only require a medication guide to be distributed with each dispense that highlight safety information, such as relevant adverse events and risks associated with taking the product.