Pharmacy Times November 11, 2024
Automation can enhance safety and efficiency and allow staff to concentrate on higher-value tasks as direct patient care roles expand.
Pharmacists play an important role in the ever-changing health care landscape. With an increasing emphasis on building multidisciplinary care teams, pharmacists are seeing an expanded role in direct patient care through programs such as opioid stewardship and post-discharge counseling. On the operational side, overseeing the medication use process—arguably one of the largest line items in a hospital—offers an opportunity for strategic decision-making and potential contributions to financial success.
As the health care ecosystem moves toward becoming increasingly automated and digitized, pharmacy industry leaders have coalesced around the vision of the autonomous pharmacy, which seeks to replace manual, error-prone activities with...