The American Society for Automation in Pharmacy held its 2020 Annual Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Fla., and combined a dynamic speaker agenda with plenty of time to network. Conference highlights included topics such as pharmaceutical market trends and USP <800> hazardous drugs, the recent privacy act requirements in California, the Amazon-PillPack venture, and lessons learned from innovative pharmacists around the country. Visit www.asapnet.org/2020-annual.html to download PDFs of the slide decks and for details on the 2020 Midyear Conference to be held June 24–26 at The Breakers, Palm Beach, Fla.
ASAP 2020 Annual Conference
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Jeremy Zellers, deputy chief pharmacy officer, left, and Scott Carruthers, chief pharmacy officer, both with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
From left, QS/1’s Justin Buckland, production manager, and Sonny Anderson, VP technology, with Smith Technologies’ Mike McManus, VP sales, and Kevin Welch, president. Sonny Anderson is ASAP president.
Representing OmniSYS were Dean Braun, SVP, business development and marketing, left, and David Pope, chief innovation officer.
Sondra Heffernan, VP, sales, InfoWerks, with Paul Carrig, VP, development at PioneerRx, at the president’s reception.
From left, Ed Vess, director, pharmacy professional affairs at QS/1, and Karl Steele, president, and John Hobson, VP, American Pharmacy Alliance.
Alecia Lashier, VP, solutions engineering at Innovation Associates, talks with David Lang, business manager, pharmacy products Avery Weigh-Tronix.
Kathy Kosty; Tim Kosty, co-founder, Pharmacy Healthcare Solutions, center, and Ken Whittemore, VP, professional and regulatory affairs, Surescripts. Tim spoke on the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Jesse Rue, clinical coordinator, About the Patient, presented on About the Patient’s efforts to develop standards on delivering patient care based on pharmacy data.
Marc Allgood, left, director of pharmacy systems and process redesign, Albertson’s, with Ben Bluml, R.Ph., senior VP for research and innovation, American Pharmacists Association Foundation. Ben spoke on Project IMPACT: Immunizations — New Innovations in Population Health.
Tom Wilson, chief technology innovation officer, Tabula Rasa HealthCare, and Sara Salton, product manager, CarePoint, chat during a break in the presentations.
Brad Jones, president and CEO, Retail Management Solutions, left, with Richard Brook, senior VP, pharmacy sales, eRx Network.
Bruce Kneeland, community pharmacy marketing specialist, Kneeland Services, spoke with Sondra Heffernan, VP of sales at InfoWerks. Kneeland presented on the pharmacy owners he met during his visit to nine successful pharmacies during a multistate road trip.
Laura Cranston, CEO, Pharmacy Quality Alliance, gave an overview on how social determinants of health influence outcomes, utilization, and cost in healthcare, and how the alliance is collecting and using the data in patient care, performance measurements, and payment systems.
Gathered after the speaker program are, from left, Brian Eidex, general manager, Pharmacy Appriss Health; Mike Menkhaus, Pro Rx Consulting; and Dawn White, manager, pharmacy quality performance, AmerisourceBergen.