Pharmacy Fulfillment Considerations in a High-Volume Environment
July 1st 2024High-volume pharmacy fulfillment requires addressing unique factors like demand profiles, prescription throughput, and specialized processing to design a solution to address your specific needs and growth goals. This article covers steps for designing fulfillment solutions, including assessing demand, choosing appropriate automation technologies, and addressing conveyance, packaging, and sortation needs.
Forging the Future: Navigating Pharmacy Automation Regulations for Enhanced Patient Care
June 24th 2024Discover how regulatory advancements are shaping the future of pharmacy automation. Our white paper explores the collaborative efforts between industry leaders and regulatory bodies, highlighting the pivotal role of regulations in advancing pharmacy practices. Learn how automation, including robotics and intelligent software, can enhance pharmacist efficiency and patient care. Find out how our industry experts are working to accelerate the adoption of regulations that facilitate the use of automation for medication patient dispensing. After reading the whitepaper, visit iARx.com to learn more about our integrated platform of capabilities supporting centralized and community fulfillment solutions.
The 2024 Smarter Purchasing Report
June 18th 2024SureCost's annual Smarter Purchasing Report offers a comprehensive, anonymized analysis of customer data to monitor trends and create a vital resource for pharmacies navigating an increasingly complex industry. This user-friendly report, based on insights from hundreds of pharmacies, provides a holistic view of emerging trends and persistent challenges. Furthermore, SureCost offers strategies to help pharmacies overcome these challenges, streamline their purchasing and inventory processes and save both time and money.
DSCSA: Keys to full compliance
May 12th 2024Ready or not, DSCSA goes into full effect in November 2024. Not everyone in the supply chain is ready for the new requirements, but advance planning can help you protect patients, inventories, and your business. It's also an opportunity for you to build a competitive edge!
Reduce the Impact of Staff Shortages With Smarter Purchasing
May 6th 2024Discover how SureCost can help your pharmacy reduce the impact of staff shortages and streamline operations. With a surge in patients requiring more complex care, pharmacies face increasing pressure to meet both patient needs and business demands. Explore the origins and impact of these shortages and the challenges faced by pharmacy teams while learning how Smarter Purchasing practices can help alleviate these burdens on staff.
Lean Six Sigma: Helping Long-Term Care Pharmacies Thrive in a Challenging Market
April 15th 2024Long-Term Care (LTC) pharmacies are playing a critical role in delivering care primarily for our aging population. Yet LTC pharmacies face many challenges, including rising costs, space constraints, labor availability and many others.
5 Ways to Offset the Impact of DIR Fees with Smarter Purchasing Strategies
March 6th 2024Discover how pharmacies can tackle today's most pressing financial challenges head-on. Our white paper uncovers the financial strain of Direct and Indirect Remuneration (DIR) fees and offers solutions through smarter purchasing. Learn how to minimize fees, ensure compliance and boost efficiency. Don't let fees weigh you down.
3 Signs the pharmacy ecosystem is poised for a movement. Are you ready?
December 14th 2023Pharmacy is positioned for growth like never before, and to meet this rapid increase, pharmacies must adopt innovative methods to keep up with the rising demand. Where do your pharmacists spend most of their time? If your answer is "counting pills," it might be time to dig deeper and ask yourself where you want them to be spending their time.
Move Beyond Dispensing With Automated Pharmacy Workflows
October 27th 2023Burnout is not a new phenomenon in healthcare professions. Emotional exhaustion and work-related stress have always impacted doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. However, the rate at which burnout is occurring has been increasing steadily over the years, and it was significantly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, pharmacists took on a larger role to help their communities, which has now led to new levels of reduced wellbeing and increased job turnover. Drug Topics sat down with Marvin Richardson, Industry Advisory & Board Member of iA, a company that develops software to help patients and pharmacists, to discuss burnout in pharmacy, how the industry can improve, what will happen if it doesn’t, and how iA is working to make the job easier for pharmacists.
The Ultimate Guide to Achieving DSCSA Compliance for Pharmacies
October 26th 2023Unlock DSCSA compliance insights with SureCost's latest white paper where it navigates the complex landscape of regulations, such as the upcoming shift to T2 data. Learn about traceable items, exemptions and importance of data centralization. Dive into the impact of drug shortages and the risks of non-compliance. Discover the power of SureCost in streamlining DSCSA compliance processes and maximizing efficiency.
Best Cost Isn’t Always the Lowest Cost: How to Drive Strategic Pharmacy Purchasing Decisions
October 26th 2023Unlock pharmacy success with our in-depth White Paper. Explore strategies to overcome rising operational costs, tackle DIR fee challenges and understand that best cost isn't always the lowest. Gain sights into vendor management, primary vendor, GPO and buying group compliance, maximizing rebates and more to optimize your pharmacy’s financial health. Download now to empower your pharmacy for a thriving future.
Advocacy, PBM Reform Remain Crucial for Independent Pharmacy Survival
October 12th 2023The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) is leading the way on PBM reform. Ginny Langbehn, vice president of marketing and communications at American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) sat down with B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and Anne Cassity, JD, NCPA’s senior vice president of government affairs, to discuss challenges in the PBM model, recent state- and federal-level legislative activity to reign in PBM practices, and much more.
5 Ways Independent Retail Pharmacies Stay Competitive with Smarter Purchasing
September 25th 2023Unlock the secrets to success for your independent pharmacy! Dive into our latest white paper and discover five strategies to maintain healthy margins, streamline inventory, handle compliance effortlessly, level the playing field against big chains and save on operational costs. Empower your pharmacy today with SureCost - get the white paper now and take charge of your pharmacy's thriving future.
5 Ways Pharmacies Stay DSCSA Compliant with Smarter Purchasing
July 17th 2023When the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) goes into full effect, wouldn't you like to say "No, thanks" to supply chain disruptions, fines and reputational damage? This guide examines critical challenges of the DSCSA, reveals a unified source of DSCSA-relevant information, and demonstrates how pharmacies like yours can not only stay in compliance — but enhance productivity and profitability, too, by streamlining operations and making more informed decisions.