The State of Pharmacy Technology
Recently I’ve found myself thinking about the state of pharmacy technology. Why? Simple, really. I’m bored and have been doing a little extracurricular reading. Not to mention that a few things have...
View ArticleSterile compounding optimization during COVID-19
From January 2020 until March of 2022, I was one of two inpatient pharmacy supervisors at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Fresno, California. CRMC is a big level one trauma center. They...
View ArticleEpic will eventually control IV workflow management
Pulling another article from the notebook archive, penned March 20, 2020. I have seen the future of IV workflow management systems (IVWFMS). Spoiler alert, EPIC wins. And before people start calling...
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Remdesivir, the pharmacy budget buster
I saw the discussion below in one of the pharmacy forums. Fact check true on this one. Gilead would have everyone believe that remdesivir is a magic bullet for COVID-19 infection. Not true. Helpful?...
View ArticlePharmacy – Relying on 503Bs is a mistake
What’s a 503B FDA outsourcing facility? Well, just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship…. just kidding, it’s what...
View ArticlePharmacy – Lessons from a pandemic
Quite some time ago I took to writing things down in a paper rather than digital notebook. This morning, as people will do when they are bored, I picked up one of those notebooks and began thumbing...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacy Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
COVID-19 has taught us many things, among them that our healthcare supply chain is poorly designed and flimsy. Just a few weeks into the pandemic and our supply chain for Personal Protective Equipment...
View ArticleToday’s sterile compounding climate is a lesson on availability cascades
I’ve been slowly reading ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, a best-selling book by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winning psychologist and economist known for his work on the psychology of judgment and...
View ArticleIs BD Pyxis Logistics inventory management any good?
Full disclosure, anyone reading this should take it with a grain of salt. I used to work for Talyst as a product manager for their acute care product line, and I’ve recently been involved with a Pyxis...
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Chapter 8: First things first
Several years ago, shortly after I was let go from Talyst, I found myself with some free time on my hands. I started writing a book. The book was titled ‘Making the right choice: Helping pharmacies...
View ArticleDisruptive technologies in pharmacy, reality or myth?
There was an interesting thread in one of the ASHP practice forums recently. Someone asked whether or not pharmacists were “ready for the future that the opportunities these disruptive technologies...
View ArticleASHP Midyear 2018: Initial Thoughts
I recently returned from the 2018 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, i.e. “Midyear” in Anaheim, CA. This year was a bit different for me as it was the first time in many years that I attended the meeting...
View ArticleBuilding a sterile compounding space in California – Regulatory Hurdles
For almost a year, I’ve been working as a ‘Pharmacy Project Manager’ on a large healthcare system project to bring all their pharmacy sterile compounding spaces — a.k.a. Cleanrooms, SCA’s, C-SCA’s,...
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Mobile compounding units, a.k.a. sterile compounding trailers
Image owned by Jerry Fahrni, Pharm.D. Taken June 28, 2018 Construction on pharmacy cleanrooms is at an all-time high in California. Every hospital I know is either renovating a sterile compounding...
View ArticleUSP Announces Intent to Postpone Official Date of USP Chapter
In a notice posted last Friday, USP announced its intention to postpone the official date of USP Chapter <800> — Hazardous Drugs — Handling in Healthcare Settings. According to the notice: “The...
View ArticleIt’s time to disrupt pharmacist order verification
Several years ago there was a debate over the long-time practice of having pharmacists review all medication orders prior to administration; referred to as nearly universal prospective order review...
View ArticleSutter Health partners with Qventus for real-time analytics
FierceHealthcare: “That’s what led them to invest in a new platform that went beyond algorithms and software to emphasize the data’s tangible impact on clinician workflow and hospital operations…...
View ArticlePearson Medical Technologies introduces m:Print Version 3.9.1
This came through one of my Google Alerts this morning. Life Pulse Health Magazine: “Pearson Medical Technologies’ [PMT] … m:Print Version 3.9.1 has been updated to use Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014...
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Has adoption of IV Workflow Management Systems in hospital pharmacies slowed?
Pharmacy Purchasing & Products (PP&P) puts out a survey each year called The State of Pharmacy Automation (SOPA). The 2017 PP&P SOPA is out and available for your reading pleasure. The...
View ArticleQuick thoughts on Swisslog acquisition of Talyst
I’m a little slow getting to my thoughts on this deal. A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Talyst had been acquired by Swisslog Healthcare. I’ve known about this acquisition for a while so I...
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