Pharmacy

A pharmacist-led initiative focused on medication list discrepancies significantly reduced hospitalizations among home health patients in Washington State.  Leaders at Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Spokane spearheaded the quality improvement effort and recently published their…

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has added three compounding robots to its central fill pharmacy at Bristol (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center.  The Omnicell IVX Station robots — named Hank, Willie and Reba — will help eliminate manual compounding tasks for…

Fewer than two-thirds of patients prescribed GLP-1 receptor agonists filled their prescriptions between January 2018 and September 2022, with patients citing high costs, insurance hurdles and potential racial bias as barriers to access. The study, published Oct. 13 in the…

CVS Health released its 2025 “Rx Report: Community Pharmacy Reimagined” Oct. 14, highlighting trends in patient expectations, workforce dynamics and technology adoption across the pharmacy sector. To devise the report, CVS surveyed more than 2,200 customers and 1,060 pharmacists and…

For years, health systems have struggled to recruit and retain pharmacy technicians — a shortage that’s stretched operations and forced hospitals to compete for a limited workforce. One Florida health system decided to stop competing and start training. Seven years…

In hospital pharmacies across the country, some of the most persistent obstacles are not tied to drug shortages or clinical breakthroughs. They are buried in workflows: authorization requests that stall at the payer, verification screens that require endless toggling and…

Five companies account for 76.1% of the 340B contract pharmacy market, according to Drug Channels.  Since Congress established the 340B program in 1992, the program has expanded to include 32,069 participating pharmacies — nearly 60% of all U.S. drug stores,…

Pharmacist job postings increased 38% nationwide from January through September 2025, according to data released Oct. 9 from the Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Demand rose in 47 states, with 16 states seeing spikes of 50% or more. California recorded…

President Donald Trump on Oct. 10 announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to lower drug prices in the U.S. The deal includes U.K.-based AstraZeneca selling medications to Medicaid at “most-favored-nation” prices. The company will also offer many popular drugs directly to…

I speak with infusion leaders every day—from major health systems to independent infusion practices—and the same challenge comes up time and again: speed and efficiency with the intake and prior authorization process. Intake and prior authorization workflows are complex, and…