Future of Pharmacy

Stakeholders need to convene honest, actionable discussions about the challenges and the safeguards needed to address appropriate use of artificial intelligence in health care.

Session at NACDS Total Store Expo discusses minor changes that retail companies can make to mesh artificial intelligence into their work to increase sales, improve margins, and lower costs.

In terms of science and technology, the health care community has everything needed to clinically implement pharmacogenomics testing.

Product verification allows technicians to practice at the top of their license and frees pharmacists to interact with patients.

Many living in lower-income rural populations face significant unmet social needs that can bar access to important mental health services.

Mobile apps can help consumers acquire medications, but few help with adherence beyond automatic refills or medication synchronization.

Using artificial intelligence to sort and respond to patient queries could streamline processes and alleviate provider burnout.

During separate panel discussions at McKesson ideaShare 2023, pharmacists discussed advocacy for pharmacy benefit manager reform and community health worker training.

Pharmacists can recognize evidence of successful interventions and learn how to integrate them into their own practice.

Access, diagnosis, and treatment for BIPOC patients suffering from migraines is yet another unflattering reflection of the lack of health equity in the United States.

Community health workers can address issues of health equity to enhance the services of the pharmacy and support a value-based care model.

Pharmacists can address the needs of health care consumers earlier in the care journey by building interpersonal relationships and community trust, as well as by leading institutional and public policy reform.

It’s imperative to redefine the future of pharmacy to help ensure a robust pipeline of future pharmacists and create a culture that helps ensure pharmacists live their purpose and passion.

Pediatric drug development, which has a complex background and history, has fundamental catches based around how children are defined in the context of clinical studies.

Radio frequency identification-enabled automation for inventory management has only achieved its massive adoption in the retail space over the past 2 decades.

A professional with a newly-minted pharmacy doctorate degree today has many options for a rewarding career.

Commonly, essential yet routine and time-consuming tasks, such as answering phone calls, scheduling appointments, or other administrative work, prevent health care workers from focusing on more value-added and enjoyable job functions.

Pharmacists, in particular, must be cautious and deliberate in using ChatGPT to ensure that its benefits are fully realized while minimizing risk and misinformation.

There are still significant unresolved issues in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which must be addressed before they can be safely and effectively used more broadly in medicine.

The advent of pharmacy-based community health workers has helped to expand and codify the pre-existing community-based efforts of pharmacy technicians to reach even outside of medication access.

Nearly 84% of hospitals are working to prevent and mitigate burnout, with increased support and programs for individual wellness and resilience practices.

The market for digital therapeutics products is expected to grow given increasing global access to smart technologies, their cost-effectiveness, and the need for patient-specific treatments.

The ChatGPT technology represents a breakthrough in the field of AI, with implications for its use in a wide range of applications.

Pharmacies need to differentiate themselves through faster and cheaper care, while delivering health outcomes across the patient journey.

Transplant patients must adhere to lifelong regimens and those caring for them must consider their regimen as the patients intersect with different parts of the health care system.

Studies show that patients who are introduced to patient support programs through digital platforms are more likely to use support services.

There has not yet been established a consensus on the set of factors to use for assessing social determinants of health in practice.

Remote work has been a growing trend across many different areas of pharmacy.

Presenter at the 2023 Community Oncology Alliance meeting notes that oncology has become more of a duality between molecular and genetic subsets, leading to huge developments in targeted and personalized care.

Research has even shown that cancer diagnosis can be significantly improved using AI, with real-time data updates, personalized attention, and ultimately better results at lower costs.