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Blister packaging is often the most repetitive, time-consuming task in pharmacies, and the SynMed system has proven over time to be a reliable solution to automate this process, limit touches, and better service facilities. Today nearly 95% of all multidose blister pack systems in North America use SynMed technologies.

Lou Ann Brubaker is the President of Brubaker Consulting, a company she founded in 1988 to exclusively serve post-acute care and related ancillary and technology companies. She spoke with ComputerTalk’s Maggie Lockwood about recent happenings in skilled nursing facilities and the impact on pharmacies and the software they’re using.

This year has resulted in unprecedented challenges for the long-term care industry. We surveyed the pharmacy stakeholders to see how they are responding with the assist of technology. Read on to see how the industry is weathering these challenges.

Paul Baldwin shares best practices to continue with policy advocacy during the time of social distancing through the use of digital communication and the importance of educating government representatives and administrators not only on your own, but through pharmacy trade associations.

Retail pharmacy, while front and center in many communities, still needs to address customer convenience to remain competitive. With the increasing ease and speed of mobile connections, learn the key emerging technology trends that pharmacy owners can leverage to thrive in an increasingly digital age.

Curtis Pharmacy is finding that a robust IVR (interactive voice response) system is a necessity in its busy pharmacies today, handling inbound call volume and supporting clinical and loyalty programs through outbound messaging. Learn about how the pharmacy is benefiting from the integration of IVR and phone systems from Vow with their PioneerRx pharmacy system and RxSafe packaging automation.

Key findings from our annual survey on where the pharmacy chains stand with technology. Despite the disruption the coronavirus has caused, pharmacy and its technology partners appear to have weathered this unprecedented event. Chain pharmacies continue to invest in technology solutions to increase the efficiency of the workplace, while invoking new approaches to not only improve patient outcomes but also increase prescription volume.

ComputerTalk’s Will Lockwood checks in with Trygve Anderson, Elsevier VP of commercial pharmacy, about drug price analytics and the dynamics of drug price data, including the impact that the millions of price changes in a typical year have on pharmacy and what you can do to ensure up-to-date drug price data in such a dynamic environment.

In June 2019, the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) and the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN) announced a new dynamic program, Flip the Pharmacy (FtP). The goal of FtP is to provide the scale to “flip” pharmacy from a professionally unsustainable, point-in-time, prescription-level practice model to a professionally sustainable, longitudinal, patient-level practice model.

A multiwholesaler analytics platform approach gives pharmacies the ability to shop for the best opportunities among wholesalers' catalogs by price, NDC specificity, package size, or general availability, while maintaining compliance with any contractual obligations that pharmacies may have with their primary vendor.