Noah A. Chapman

Independent pharmacies are being squeezed on reimbursement while their data quietly fuels billion-dollar decisions. A new pharmacy data economy could flip that script.

As pharmacy technology consolidates under a few powerful platforms, independent pharmacies risk losing control of the data—and leverage—they generate every day.

Independent pharmacies produce some of health care’s most valuable data, yet much of the profit and power they create bypasses the pharmacies entirely.