Empowering Pharmacists with Responsible AI

As health care rapidly evolves, clinical pharmacists face increasing demands to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care amidst complex workflows and time constraints. The integration of responsible AI technologies, exemplified by Elsevier’s ClinicalKey AI (CKAI), offers transformative potential to help enhance clinical decision support and streamline pharmacy workflows.

Harnessing the Promise of Responsible AI
The CKAI brief explores how responsible AI can empower pharmacists by providing curated, evidence-based insights tailored to individual patient scenarios. This technology addresses longstanding challenges by consolidating trusted clinical content into a single, conversational platform, enabling pharmacists to make evidence-based decisions quickly and confidently.

Core Principles Guiding Responsible AI Adoption
Both the brief and the video interview emphasize the foundational tenets of responsible AI: transparency, quality, and accountability. Elsevier’s approach includes a rigorous evaluation framework and clinician in the loop oversight helping to ensure AI outputs are accurate, reliable, and aligned with best-practice medication management. Pharmacists are positioned as clinical leaders in this process, leveraging their expertise to guide AI integration and governance.

Clinically-Driven Generative AI Tools
Generative AI capabilities within CKAI surface trusted primary literature, medication content, and clinical guidelines, synthesizing complex information into accessible, actionable formats. This supports pharmacists in navigating clinical controversies and patient-specific questions, enhancing medication therapy management and patient outcomes.

The Next Evolution of Healthcare IT
The video interview highlights the ongoing transformation from traditional EHR-based decision support to optimized, interoperable AI solutions that break down data silos. This evolution calls for collaborative innovation across health care leaders, with pharmacists playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI-enabled clinical care.

Let’s Shape Progress Together

Discover how ClinicalKey AI is supporting pharmacy practice through responsible AI. Watch the full video interview with Elsevier’s Vice President of North American Go-To-Market Strategy for Physician and Pharmacist Solutions, Julia Vu, PharmD. Download the comprehensive CKAI brief to explore the detailed insights and practical applications of AI in pharmacy.

Download the Brief: Empowering Pharmacists with Responsible Ai