News|Articles|September 16, 2026

Pharmacy Times

  • September 2026
  • Volume 92
  • Issue 9

From Reactive to Proactive: AI's Role in Modern Pharmacy Safety

Fact checked by: Ron Panarotti

Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms a chaotic, reactive process into an adaptive, proactive system that improves workflow and patient safety.

Current pharmacy workflows depend extensively on human checkpoints, but human attention is vulnerable to fatigue and distraction. Current safety precautions use standardized, rule-based technology, such as barcode scans, that can help reduce workflow errors but do not improve the chaotic environment in which the workflow exists.