Specialty pharmacy tech transitions require change management, early executive engagement, and workflow validation to ensure success in health systems.

As regulatory pressure mounts and workforce shortages persist, Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health System is positioning pharmacy as a safeguard for medication access and a driver of system growth.

Hospital and health-system pharmacies are increasingly using technology and expanding the duties of pharmacy technicians to improve medication safety and to allow pharmacists to increase their roles ...

Faced with pharmacy closures and struggling to make ends meet, health system executives are innovating pharmacy operations to cut costs, reduce waste and give the pharmacist a bigger role in care ...

Pharmacy technicians are medical professionals who work with pharmacists to help patients and make sure they get the best care. They often are the people who find, package, and label prescribed ...

In November 2019, Stanford Health Care, an academic medical center consistently ranked among the best in the U.S., moved into a new hospital building. With seven stories and 824,000 square feet, the ...

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly involving pharmacists in inpatient and outpatient care, though many report staffing shortages across different roles and seniorities, according to a newly ...

Hospitals and health systems are experiencing severe shortages of pharmacy technicians, with a majority of pharmacy administrators in a recent survey reporting turnover rates of at least 21% in 2021, ...

Heidi Strehl worked as a pharmacy technician at a Rite Aid in the Pittsburgh suburbs for more than 16 years. She loved her customers, enjoyed her job and thought of her co-workers as family. But this ...

In the time of COVID or any era, frontline healthcare workers include a multitude of hospital technicians whose efforts hold the ship afloat -- and whose presence, while significant and ubiquitous, ...

As would be expected, many of the variables examined in this analysis differed based on hospital size. For example, hospital volume statistics, pharmacy expenditures, hours of operation, pharmacy FTEs ...