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Pharmacy Technology

  • Q&A: PerceptiMed’s Maione talks engaging patients through Rx tech

    With consumers taking greater control of their own health, pharmacy technology companies are playing a pivotal role in helping community pharmacists better engage patients through improved in-store experience and better communication. Drug Store News spoke to PerceptiMed chief business officer Frank Maione about how PerceptiMed is working to help pharmacies deliver on these goals. 

  • Q&A: ScriptPro’s Coughlin talks tech as vehicle for improved patient care

    Between ensuring their patients receive the proper medication, working to improve patient adherence to meet quality measures, offering enhanced clinical services and acting as an active member of their patients’ care team, pharmacists are spread thin. In order to spend more time providing quality interactions with patients, pharmacies are increasingly looking to technology as a way to ease their workload to provide better patient-facing care.
     

  • Driving revenue streams with pharmacy technology

    As the nation's healthcare system continues to evolve, community pharmacies are searching for new ways to attract patients and create new revenue opportunities. Because this has mostly meant expanding the services they offer, streamlining payment and reimbursement processes has taken on added importance.

  • Pharmacies leverage data to improve patient outcomes

    Employing sophisticated technology and a broad range of customer information is central to community pharmacies' ongoing efforts to play a greater role in managing patients' health, according to industry sources.

    "Besides capturing all of their prescription-related data, pharmacies should mine their patients’ point-of-sale data," Innovation VP of global business development Doyle Jensen told Drug Store News.

  • CVS Health eyes faster pace of health innovation

    Helena Foulkes, CVS Health EVP/CVS Pharmacy president

  • Pharmacies turn to automation as workloads, data needs rise

    Retail pharmacy is being squeezed.

    Even as an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under Obamacare propel rising dispensing rates and add to pharmacists’ workloads, they’re being called on to practice “at the top of their license” by filling an ever-expanding role as front-line patient-care specialists and fully engaged members of collaborative care provider networks.

  • Q&A: QS/1’s Crystal Ratliff on how tech enables pharmacists to do their best work

    Given the frequency with which pharmacists are required to act as an intermediary between patients and physicians, a recent focus of pharmacy technology companies — among them QS/1 — have been making it easier for pharmacists to integrate into a patient’s care team. At the same time, they are enabling pharmacists to better monitor patient adherence and needs. Drug Store News spoke with QS/1 interface market analyst Crystal Ratliff about how pharmacists can leverage the company's offerings to better provide care to their patients. 

  • Q&A: Doyle Jensen on central fill’s potential for community pharmacists

    The demands placed on pharmacists’ time have only increased as the industry works to deliver within a fee-for-service model, and among the companies looking to help pharmacists maximize their time through technology is Innovation, maker of the PharmAssist robot and solutions. Drug Store News caught up with Innovation VP global business development Doyle Jensen to discuss the company’s role in enabling community pharmacists to better serve patients through technology.

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