FutureDose.tech

David Berkowitz, PharmD interviews the founder of EzriRx, Ezriel Green. Ezriel is a brilliant innovator of the healthcare purchasing sector.   The EzriRx mission is to revolutionize the process of buying pharmaceuticals. EzriRx believes the way to drive the pharmaceutical industry forward is by leveraging the latest technology. They work hard to provide innovative tools on our platform so that independent pharmacies have access the best prices on pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2017, Lakewood-based EzriRx has signed up over 2,500 independent pharmacies nationwide.  EzriRx has over 15 employees, including developers and designers who work remotely, some as far away as India and Vietnam. And sales are on pace to grow more than 200 percent this year, Green said. Innovation is key.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the Mission of TruePill? Listen in to this fascinating conversation with Dr. David Berkowitz & TruePill co-founder Sid Viswanathan.  Much of the tech stack connecting health care providers is antiquated and is in need of modernization. One of the companies helping to evolve the healthcare information highway is Truepill. Truepill got their start as the pharmacy fulfillment technology behind popular consumer brands like Hims/Hers and GoodRx. Since then, Truepill has expanded into other vertical spaces like telehealth and has created a comprehensive API-connected healthcare infrastructure to meet many of their customer’s needs.  Listen in as Dave speaks to Truepill’s CEO Sid Visawanathan, about how Truepill empowers their partners to deliver world-class patient experiences. Sid Viswanathan is the Co-Founder and President of Truepill. Alongside Co-Founder Umar Afridi, Sid founded Truepill in 2016 to revolutionize the pharmacy and healthcare industry. The company shipped its first prescription less than five years ago and has since expanded its services to deliver an end-to-end, direct-to-patient experience unlike anything else in the healthcare industry. In 2010, Sid founded his first company, CardMunch, a business-card scanning app which was acquired by LinkedIn soon after its founding. After its acquisition, Sid joined LinkedIn as Product Manager and saw CardMunch named one of Time Magazine’s Best Apps of 2012. Sid started his career in Johnson & Johnson’s Global Operations Leadership Development program, working in the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. Learn more: https://truepill.com/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the future data science and artificial intelligence will be routinely used to give clinicians diagnostic recommendations; give scientists testable hypotheses they can confirm experimentally and offer them insights into safe and precise treatments; and give patients guidance on self-care, e.g., how to lead a healthy lifestyle and recognize disease early. Marinka Zitnik, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School. Before joining Harvard, Dr. Zitnik was a postdoctoral fellow in Computer Science at Stanford University and was involved in projects at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Listen in as David and Marinka explain some AI concepts such as encoding, decoding, and embedding as well as discuss algorithms that can predict drug-drug interactions and identify medications that may be good candidates to treat COVID-19.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todays FutureDose.tech guest is Allen Flynn, PhD & PharmD,  Assistant Professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan.  It has been reported that 70% of pharmacists’ time is spent on non-cognitive activities such as medication distribution. As such, the industry recognizes that more automation is needed so that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can spend more time on patient focused activities that improve outcomes. Allen Flynn, PhD & PharmD, is one of the industry trailblazers researching and building tools that will enable pharmacists to spend more time by the bedside. Listen in as David Berkowitz and Allen Flynn discuss some of the problems that need to be solved from a clinical and technical perspective in order to automate more non-value added pharmacy tasks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The future of healthcare is precision dosing of medications guided by biosensors and other patient specific factors. The future of community pharmacy may include experts in 3D printing of medications who are remotely monitoring populations and crafting precise doses. Alvaro Goyanes, is the Co-Founder and Director of Development for FabRx a medication 3D printing company. FabRx has created user friendly software, a knowledge base of excipients and a 3D printer, MediMaker, so that pharmacists and Pharma can unlock the power of this novel technology. Listen in as David Berkowitz and Alvaro talk about use cases, challenges and the future of medication 3D printing.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Healthcare has many opportunities to better leverage technology. The chance to get involved in technology and healthcare is easier than you might think. Everyone can have, maybe everyone should have, a role in improving technology and healthcare. Hackathons offer one way in helping connect those with a passion for technology, healthcare, and love to "show not just tell" how healthcare can be better. The PittChallenge 2020 will be the fourth annual University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy large-scale, student-run hackathon. Over the weekend of October 23rd to 25th 2020, students from across the United States will gather virtually for 48 hours (from registration to closing ceremony) to build the coolest and most innovative web, mobile, and hardware health applications; meet amazing people; and win prizes and awards.  This year's event will be special in many ways to account for factors like COVID-19. It will feature participants with representation from top computer science and pharmacy schools around the nation. A strong focus will be placed on innovative ideas to address areas affected by COVID-19 such as telehealth, remote working/learning environments, combating social isolation, and more.  Listen in on this conversation between David Berkowitz PharmD, PittChallenge leader Britney Stottlemeyer (PharmD, '21, and Ravi Patel, PharmD) as they discuss how events like these possible to allow anyone at any experience level to help change healthcare.  Learn more about the PittChallenge hackathon at www.PittChallenge.com or reachout at PittChallengeHackathon@gmail.com. Let's Change Healthcare Together!  This PPN Episode is sponsored by CEimpact & their podcast GameChangers, the first podcast infused with continuing education credits for pharmacists, listen here:  https://www.ceimpact.com/podcast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One side effect of public scrutiny of rising drug prices has been greater visibility into the uniquely complex pharmaceutical supply chain. Previously little known distributors and middlemen now regularly receive attention, highlighting how the line between drugmaker and patient is rarely straight. There are billions of Pills and vials are routed to hospitals and pharmacies by wholesalers like McKesson and AmerisourceBergen but what tech is missing between wholesalers & automation tech which could help fill in the gap of consumption predictability? In just one possible iteration, pharmacies buy medicines, are reimbursed by insurers, which in turn work with or their own pharmacy benefit managers in negotiations with drugmakers. Often, supply chain issues come down to differences in processes or systems. A single drug or treatment may be administered to hundreds of hospitals through distributors, but with more than 5,000 such healthcare facilities in the U.S. alone, it can be tough to keep track of and meet each buyer’s requirements. Listen in on this conversation between David Berkowitz, PharmD & Kent Bridgeman, PharmDas they dig deeper into the missing links between drug supply and APIs;  application programming interface, is a computing interface which defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jing Wu, PharmD is the Geospatial Pharmacist  Jing Wu, PharmD, MPH Jing Wu graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017 with a dual degree Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health. She served as the APhA Foundation Executive Resident in Association Management & Leadership in Washington, D.C. In her role, she manages the Foundation awards, grants, and scholarship programs, among other projects across the enterprise. Wu places great value on patient and provider empowerment. She strives to create communities of mutual understanding where a self-determined quality of life is attainable for all. She is enthusiastic about emphasizing a culture of health and aims to improve healthcare infrastructure through collaborative practice. Her strengths and interests include innovative strategizing, sustainability development, pharmacy and patient advocacy, and inspiring others to cultivate resilience and hope.  About the host:  David Berkowitz PharmD    Innovative pharmacy leader, intrapreneur and entrepreneur who is committed to helping those at the frontlines in healthcare spend their time wisely, efficiently, and on interventions that matter. Passionate about maximizing finite resources, improving the clinician-patient relationship by leveraging tools that improve healthcare delivery, nudging patients to make healthy choices, implementing predictive models to improve medication safety and enabling data-driven driven healthcare through quantitative pharmacology and machine learning. About ESRI Esri is the global market leader in GIS and has helped customers improve results since 1969. We build ArcGIS, the world's most powerful mapping and spatial analytics software. ArcGIS connects everyone, everywhere through a common visual language. It combines mapping and analytics to reveal deeper insight into data, helping organizations create positive change in industry and society. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Special Guest FutureDose Host David Berkowitz PharmD David's guest is Daryl Schiller, PharmD, FASHP, BCPS-AQ ID. Daryl is a Pharmacy leader with experience in hospital and retail settings, ambulatory surgery consulting, education, and medical writing. He currently oversee clinical and operational activities as the Director of Pharmacy at Montefiore Nyack Hospital where medication safety is the top priority. Daryl helped establish a clinical practice model that integrates pharmacists into multidisciplinary care teams, an enhanced clinical specialist service with a postgraduate residency training program, safer sterile compounding procedures, and improved medication dispensing and monitoring. Since coming to Montefiore Nyack, they have added almost 10 positions to the Department, increased the number of board certified pharmacists 4-fold, increased 340B revenue 8-fold, and implemented various targeted medication quality and performance improvement initiatives. Prior to joining the Pharmacy Team at Montefiore Nyack, Daryl was the Assistant Director for Clinical Pharmacy Services and Pharmacy Residency Director at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ where he was also the clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases and burn trauma. Daryl has held leadership positions with numerous professional and community organizations, have been a question writer for the Board of Pharmacy Specialists Certification exam, have nearly 50 publications or presentations in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and was the recipient of the NJ Pharmacist of the Year Leadership Award. About David: David Berkowitz PharmD is currently an Omnicell One Field Consultant and the Director of the Omnicell Fellowship in Data Analytics. Previously he worked for approximately 10 years in various inpatient pharmacy administrative roles at Partners Healthcare and Boston Medical Center, both in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his inpatient pharmacy experience, Dr. Berkowitz has also worked for two digital health startups serving as the Director of Pharmacy Strategy at Pillo health and the President of VeriCurious. He is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy where is also an associate professor of pharmacy practice and he serves on their Digital Health Advisory Committee. Other organization involvements include serving on the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Section of Pharmacy Informatics Professional Development Advisory Group and he is an advisor for the digital health platform, HealthXL. This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine, UCI, Master of Science in Pharmacology, learn more: https://sites.uci.edu/mspharmacology/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The original host of the Specialty Pharmacy Podcast and a frequent guest on the Pharmacy Podcast Network, Harry Travis joins Todd Eury on FutureDose.tech discussing how to "Future Proof Pharmacy".  Harry J. Travis is a senior healthcare executive with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of pharmaceutical distribution channel management. This includes multibillion-dollar specialty and non-specialty pharmacy operations, health plan pharmacy benefit design and pharmaceutical wholesale operations. Currently, Mr. Travis is the President and CEO of etectRx, Inc. etectRx has developed an innovative digital pill system that incorporates a tiny ingestible sensor into a capsule, which transmits a signal to a wearable reader and then to a smartphone-based app and secure cloud-based server to reliably and safely indicate when a patient has taken their medicine. Mr. Travis has held senior leadership positions with Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Accredo/Medco and Aetna where he served as the VP of Aetna’s Specialty and Home-Delivery Pharmacy Business. He is a nationally known speaker on the topic of the disruptive impact of digital technologies on the practice and business of pharmacy. He holds a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy and an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia. https://etectrx.com/team/harry-j-travis/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Timothy Aungst, PharmD, the Digital Apothecary shares his views on "Why every tech company needs a pharmacist on staff."  Learn more about Tim here:  https://www.thedigitalapothecary.com/biography  This episode was sponsored by the California Pharmacist Association WPE 2020 https://cpha.com/cphaevents/wpe/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Timothy Aungst, PharmD host of FutureDose.tech talks about the recent focus on the issues plaguing digital health companies focused on medication adherence, which seem to come from the fact that adherence alone is not the problem, but optimization of therapy from data collected. Tim presents some of the trends I've seen and thoughts on what can be done to change these problems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MEDICATION ADHERENCE IS NOT A $300 BILLION PROBLEM (Change my Mind) Medication adherence holds a soft spot for me, likely due to my professional background as a pharmacist. I cannot tell you how often medication adherence comes up daily when addressing patient care. Even in the home healthcare setting, we have multiple nurses that are dedicated to visiting and administering medications to patients (usually those with a psych history or SUD or related comorbidities that impede medication use). I love the idea of technology aiding in medication adherence, and if you follow my work, you know that I have been reviewing apps and devices for almost a decade now. Nonetheless, I cannot but help notice a trend that is, I believe, really cutting out pharmacists from the medication "adherence" disruption space. Heres the problem: Medication adherence is not a $300 Billion problem, and that may shock you. After all, almost every company website I visit discusses how they will transform healthcare with their solution/product by focusing on their intervention will reduce the cost of adherence in the US. And I cannot help but think this narrative is killing the pharmacy profession because it opens up a very different tale to the actual problem that is favorable to only a few people. TIMOTHY AUNGST NOVEMBER 1, 2019 LINK:  https://www.thedigitalapothecary.com/pharmacy-innovation-news/2019/11/1/medication-adherence-is-not-a-300-billion-problem  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Digital Apothecary:  https://www.thedigitalapothecary.com/musings  It's increasingly becoming a digital world, and businesses are looking to turn healthcare into the next field to reap the benefits of rampant technological growth. After all, its a multi-billion dollar market, we have an aging population, and new therapies are coming to the field all the time. For me, keeping up with all of these developments has increasingly been a fund endeavor, but over the years I have found many people asking me for input on new technologies and their impact on the pharmacy landscape and patient care opportunities. For that reason, I created The Digital Apothecary as a place for people to read about novel tools, devices, and developments that I think may make a difference.  Why the focus on Digital Health? It's an amazing time for patients to be able to use wearable devices to capture data in realtime and share it with their health team. I love to watch what is being developed and imagine how pharmacy can use this to monitor therapeutic outcomes and improve care. Timothy Aungst, PharmD is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at MCPHS University, Worcester, MA. He graduated from Wilkes University Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 2011. Afterwards, he pursued a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. Luke's University Hospital, Bethlehem, PA, with an emphasis on Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Geriatric Care. He then completed a fellowship program focused on geriatric care, Medicare/Medicaid and drug management, and academia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Articles of Interest Links: AdhereTech - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/adheretech-raises-growth-equity-round-scale-improve-smart-pill-bottle-based-adherence Pear Therapeutics reSET-O FDA Clearance - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/pears-digital-therapeutic-reset-o-fda-cleared-treat-opioid-use-disorder Beddit Apple Launch - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/fcc-document-suggests-apple-may-launch-new-beddit-device POPS! Diabetes clearance - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/pops-diabetes-care-scores-510k-connected-glucose-monitoring-system Remote Patient Monitoring - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/big-changes-are-coming-medicare-reimbursement-connected-health Pillsy subscription service - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/smart-pill-bottle-cap-company-launches-supplement-subscription-service Alto raises $50 Million - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/altos-digital-pharmacy-prescription-delivery-service-closes-50m-round FDA Opioid Challenge Winners - https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalProductsandTobacco/CDRH/CDRHInnovation/ucm609082.htm FDA Digital Health Action Plan - https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DigitalHealth/UCM568735.pdf Tabula Rasa acquires DoseMe - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/tabula-rasa-healthcare-acquires-fellow-medication-safety-platform-doseme ResMed acquires Propeller for $225 Million - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/resmed-acquires-digital-respiratory-health-company-propeller-health Pharmacy Gig Economy - https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/aspen-rxhealth-gets-9m-create-gig-economy-pharmacists Novo Nordisk Smart Insulin Pens - https://diatribe.org/novopen-6-and-novopen-echo-plus-connected-insulin-pens-launch-early-2019?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&fbclid=IwAR1QO9e-lfY0G173XNhitGhUs1AT0xv-XyYeyuVtmDh9KXC18UgUHlxUH9A Research Articles of Interest: Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence: A Review - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30561486 Machine learning for predicting psychotic relapse at 2 years in schizophrenia in the national FACE-SZ cohort - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30552914 What is an appropriate level of evidence for a digital health intervention? - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30545779 Continuous Temperature-Monitoring Socks for Home Use in Patients With Diabetes: Observational Study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30559091 Smartphone apps for insomnia: examining existing apps' usability and adherence to evidence-based principles for insomnia management - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30590862 Use of a Digital Medication Management System for Effective Assessment and Enhancement of Patient Adherence to Therapy (ReX): Feasibility Study - https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2018/4/e10128/ Rationale and design of a large-scale, app-based study to identify cardiac arrhythmias using a smartwatch: The Apple Heart Study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30392584 A Digital Language Divide? The Relationship between Internet Medication Refills and Medication Adherence among Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29600351 Community pharmacist perceptions of their role and the use of social media and mobile health applications as tools in public health - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29501431 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FutureDose host Dr. Timothy Aungst talks about Digital therapeutics as the new area in the Digital Health field creating evidence-based software for clinical treatment of diseases. The Digital Health Alliance has released an industry report on the current state of DTx https://www.dtxalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DTA-Report_DTx-Industry-Foundations.pdf Feel free to read my blog post on the topic and an introduction to digital therapeutics with more details that this podcast is based upon https://www.thedigitalapothecary.com/pharmacy-innovation-news/2018/11/28/an-introduction-to-digital-therapeutics-and-relevance-to-clinical-practice Timothy Dy Aungst, PharmD Associate Professor | Freelance Writer & Consultant @TDAungst See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Timothy D. Aungst PharmD, delivers another FutureDose.Tech episode about the AMA Digital Health Playbook.  The American Medical Association (AMA) has not been silent compared to other medical organizations around its views on digital health. They have had an open discourse in the past year and partnered with many outside organizations to quantify and assess the implications of the digital health space in medical practice. If you were not aware (or a part of), the AMA has had several open networks inciting discussions and joint thoughts on digital health and established a digital health leadership program. As part of this program, there has been an interest in delivering care using digital health, with a focus on Validation & Evidence, Payment, Liability & Risk, and Adoption & Scale. While these may be ambivalent terms, the AMA has put its word into more action with their recently released "Digital Health Implementation Playbook" (you can download it here but will need to submit some user data). I have read this document a few times and reflected on its implications to practice, which I will detail henceforth. The Playbook is 95 pages long, and 66 pages actually dedicated towards essential content with the remainder being ancillary supporting documents and tools to integrate into clinical use. Overall, a lot of the material is image and graph-heavy, with not a lot of actual text, and with many quotes and such thrown in. I would say perhaps if they just stuck with actual text like a whitepaper this thing may only be

Timothy Dy Aungst, PharmD, is an associate professor of pharmacy practice at MCPHS University. He graduated from Wilkes University Nesbitt School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. Luke's University Hospital, and then a Clinical Geriatric Fellowship at MCPHS University. He is passionate about the rise of technology in health care and its application to pharmacy. He has published primarily on the role of mobile technology and mHealth, and made multiple national and international presentations on those topics. He blogs at TheDigitalApothecary.com, is a Co-Host of FutureDose.Tech a podcast part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, and you can find him on Twitter @TDAungst. Forbes Technology Council Meghann Chilcott Senior Vice President of OrderInsite, delivering executive leadership in innovative pharmacy technology solutions. An executive leader in Pharmacy Technology, I help companies achieve revenue goals with a passion for process improvements through the successful execution of deliverables, backed by deep industry expertise and comprehensive management experience. A strategic and analytical professional, I develop business initiatives quickly and with precision.  Personal Email: meghannc@me.com  Business Email: mchilcott@orderinsite.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WHAT'S THE SNOWFLAKE ARCHITECTURAL DIFFERENCE?  Meghann Chilcott is the host of FutureDose.Tech and interviews Todd Crosslin, the VP of Healthcare Strategy at Snowflake Computing.  Snowflake’s unique data warehouse architecture provides complete relational database support for both structured data, such as CSV files and tables, and semi-structured data, including JSON, Avro, Parquet, etc., all within a single, logically integrated solution. Snowflake is a data warehouse-as-a-service, which requires no management and features separate compute, storage, and cloud services that can scale and change independently. Metadata is also automatic. What’s more, metadata processing within Snowflake does not compete with the compute resources running your queries. This means Snowflake can scale near-linearly as your compute resources scale out. Secure by design and compatible with popular ETL and BI tools, Snowflake enables data warehouse managers to support enterprise-wide data warehouse requirements with virtually unlimited concurrency. Snowflake is also a powerful query processing back-end platform for developers creating modern data-driven applications. https://www.snowflake.com/product/why-snowflake/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Notes from Digital Apothecary on Apple Watch Series 4. The recent Apple event was pretty tame compared to past years, with three new iPhones and Watch announced. Overall, a lot of this news had been floating around for the past few days before the event, but one item that caught my attention was the integration of an EKG sensor into the Series 4 Apple Watch. Indeed, the event did highlight a bunch of new health features of the Apple Watch, including a bigger size and such, but two health items caught my attention: ECG - A 30s ECG is being added after FDA approval to the Apple Watch that can detect arrhythmia’s (more specifically A. Fib). This is perhaps the biggest item being discussed in the Apple/Digital health field at the time, which I’ll go into detail further along. Fall Risk - If you fall, the Apple Watch will allow you call for medical aid, and if no response is logged after 60 seconds. Now, I love this to a certain point. I think it’s going to be a good feature for those that want to enable it - and could be something recommended for patients at a high fall risk. It is a timely feature, given the recent acquisition of GreatCall by BestBuy lately, so Apple is definitely paying attention to how to leverage its device for services. Expanded App Design - Some of the images released of how the Apple Watch can display data integrated with mobile apps for health-related purposes were really cool I thought, such as Dexcom CGM and Clue period tracker. Really nice interfaces that I think can help remind users to engage in their use, which often seems forgotten and leads to drop off for most of these health apps. https://www.thedigitalapothecary.com/pharmacy-innovation-news/2018/9/13/lets-talk-about-the-new-apple-watch-and-what-it-means-for-health  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we live at a unique point in human history where data are becoming the new currencies. Beyond oil, dollars and social status, data are emerging as one of the most powerful and consequential currencies around the globe. Technology, computer processing, cloud storage and artificial intelligence are empowering these data to transform zeroes and ones into insightful and even profound realizations about almost every aspect of our lives. - John Nosta  This is FutureDose.Tech -- the Pharmacy Podcast Network's leading authority on technology in pharmacy and healthcare.  Co-Hosts:  Timothy Aungst, PharmD | The Digital Apothecary Meghann Chilcott | Senior Vice President | OrderInsite™ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KeyCentrix Pharmacy Technology Solutions presents an intriguing discussion with mobile tech start up innovator Miguel Johns, CEO of KingFit. A Mobile Technology Advancement in Diabetes Care Strategies, a new diabetes education platform.    Miguel Johns is the founder and CEO at KingFit. For people with diabetes, KingFit provides a mobile application that delivers industry leading diabetes education to the palm of your hand.   Miguel comes from a long family history of people with diabetes. His father has it, and grandmother as well. Miguel's grandmother was diagnosed with diabetes, she was sent home with a piece of paper and no guidance. She believed drinking fruit juice and chocolate milk were healthier options than drinking soda.   This inspired Miguel to study exercise science in college at Indiana State University where he played football. During his chronic disease management class, they watched a documentary called “Escape Fire”. The documentary was about the struggling healthcare system and featured multiple physicians calling for innovation.   This drove Miguel to begin an online health coaching platform based on the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program. He launched a digital coaching service that leveraged video to guide people to healthy lifestyle change.   After a year of running a coaching service, Miguel began pitching the idea of building a technology to support the coaching to the community. He came across an investor/advisor who challenged him to think bigger and focus on automating the technology.   So two years ago Miguel began building the idea of the KingFit app. Miguel and his team spoke with nearly 100 healthcare professionals to discover where our application would best fit in the current healthcare system and multiple diabetes educators pointed us in the direction of diabetes self-management education. They discovered that 95% of people newly diagnosed with diabetes go without formal diabetes self-management education. This is a problem because DSME has been clinically proven to reduce the risk of renal failure, neuropathy, and loss of vision by up to 40%. Saving the US Healthcare System thousands of dollars per patient per year.   There are three key reasons why this is happening. The patient’s insurance does not cover the cost so they would have to pay $300-$500 out of pocket. The patient lives in one of the 1500 US counties that does not offer the services. Or the DSME classes are too inconvenient to fit into the patient’s busy schedule.   KingFit is solving this problem with a free for the user app, that brings the educators to the palm of your hand and delivers the programming in consumable bite-size pieces that the patient can go through on their time at their pace.   The KingFit super star team of diabetes educators have combined to publish over 20 books, 300 articles and started 5 diabetes focused businesses. They have sat on regional and national boards for the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators. The programs they have developed for the application follow the guidelines for accredited diabetes self-management education. KingFit is unique because it includes a master of nursing, an exercise physiologist, a psychologist and a dietitian. This gives people access to expertise in a way like never before at scale.   The KingFit application is the only diabetes self-management education that can act as a stand alone program or as a supplement to an existing chronic disease management workflow. CONTACT THE KINGFIT TEAM TODAY https://kingfit.io/pages/contact-us  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pharmacy owners must leverage their data more aggressively to impact their bottom line and stay in business. This is a three-part discussion on the importance of pharmacy business data in business today. "Big Data" is the trend but what does it really mean and how can pharmacy businesses gain a competitive advantage with data? Sign Up for the RxMatrix Webinar Today to learn critical information to move past barely making it to prosperity & success.   According to two studies done by Nucleus Research, analytics have impressive ROI and the trend is becoming more impressive. In 2011, the research showed that for every dollar invested in analytics, the businesses averaged a ROI of $10.66. In 2014, the research showed an average increase in ROI of $13.01. That is greater than 1,000% returns, and for independent pharmacists this will change the game. We talk with Todd Stice and Trenton Jenks co-founders of RxMatrix, part one of a three part series about understanding, learning, and leveraging pharmacy business data to become more profitable in today’s competitive environments. SIGN UP HERE Intro-excerpt from YouTube: The Importance of Data in Business       Link https://youtu.be/uw4P5wx1Bq0 Music: Spybreak by Propellerheads 1998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Specialty Pharmacy Platform Designed for Flexibility & Growth  We interview President of KeyCentrix Elie Khalife and dig into the mind of a leader in the Specialty Pharmacy Technology space.  Operating a specialty pharmacy requires advanced software solutions. NewLeafRx by KeyCentrix provides an order-based, exception driven workflow. Our software enables custom configurations to promote ideal throughput while enforcing best practices for single or multi-location environments. Combined with solutions consulting and a comprehensive implementation approach, NewLeafRx pharmacy management software offers specialty pharmacies an unmatched level of resources and service.  Configurable Workflow Stages – Streamline operations and become more efficient with configurable workflow stages including data entry, adjudication, PV1, scheduling, credit review, dispensing, PV2, packing and Will Call. Order-based Manager – Improve your pharmacy processing efficiencies by logically grouping prescriptions into orders based on patient, facility or prescriber. Exception-driven Workflow – Ensure compliance and adherence by requiring activities on complex therapies driven by manufacturer reporting, business objectives, stage validations, cost to patient, disease state, lab values, specific drugs, and your sales and marketing needs. Activity Tracking – KeyCentrix software systems have built-in activity tracking tools to enhance patient care, adherence and disease state management. Plus, all reportable user defined fields capture data about patients, prescribers, A/R accounts drugs that may not be available in a standard field and the heavy data points required frequently by drug manufacturers, PBMs and disease states. About Elie Khalife President Elie Khalife has been with KeyCentrix, LLC since 2008 when he joined as a Senior Operations Executive. He has been its President since 2012. Khalife has led KeyCentrix’s transformation and has been the driver to it becoming a leader in specialty pharmacy management systems. Elie has led organizations with a focus on both operations and technology for much of his career. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, France with equivalent degrees as a Masters in Computer and Communication Engineering, and a doctorate in Telecommunication and Databases Management. Contact:  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Erin Albert interviews Healthcare Informatics leader Dr. Charles Safran.   Dr. Charles Safran is a primary care internist who has devoted his professional career to improving patient care through the creative use of informatics. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the immediate past President and Chairman of American Medical Informatics Association was previously Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians.  Dr. Safran is co-Editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and on the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Council. He is a member to the Consumer Empowerment workgroup of the American Health Information Community formed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. During his career he has helped develop and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records, clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients with HIV/AIDS and most recently personal care support systems for parents with premature infants which he calls collaborative healthware.  He founded a company, Clinician Support Technology and as its CEO successfully brought his ideas to a national market. The company's products and technology were acquired by a major public company. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and speaks to national and international audiences. He has recently testified for the U.S. Congress on Health IT. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics and hold a Masters degree in mathematical logic and a Doctor of Medicine all from Tufts University. CONTACT INFORMATION 1330 Beacon Street Suite 400 Brookline MA 02446 csafran [a /t] bidmc harvard.edu   CLICK HERE: Dr Erin Albert's Book-Store See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Technology implemented to empower a privately owned institutional pharmacy is critical. We interview Kevin O’Leary - President & CEO of Parkview Health Services, LLC in Buffalo, NY.  Parkview Health Services is a Western and Central New York based pharmacy and health clinic service provider. Since 1985, they have maintained a commitment to providing quality care and pharmacy services to consumers in assisted living facilities, developmentally disabled residences, mental health clinics, chemical dependency rehabilitation facilities, and many more. Parkview Health Services is compliant with nationally recognized accreditation standards and are backed by their strong partnership with The Anderson Group, a private equity firm committed to building companies with strong customer relationships. Kevin chose SuiteRx Pharmacy Management Systems as their core technology because of their flexibility, customer attention, and knowledge of the institutional pharmacy space. SuiteRx is a pharmacy software vendor addressing the needs and challenges presented in the independent pharmacy market. Nicholas Zener, PharmD, CEO leads the team and helped developed the IPS program which enables independent and small chain pharmacies to use state of the art technology to better meet the needs of their customers and increase speed and accuracy in the pharmacy. 
 With Retail, Institutional and Combo versions of the software, IPS is a comprehensive solution, integrating document management, delivery, POS, inventory management, web portal capabilities and compounding into one seamless application. Kevin O’Leary - President   Parkview Health Services, LLC   Tel 716.876.2323   Email:  koleary@parkviewhs.com SuiteRx.com 307 S Jupiter Rd. Suite 205   Allen TX, 75002 Email: sales@suiterx.com   Phone: 916-242-8779 (916-ChatSRx)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Ego is like dust in the eyes. Clear the ego and see the world.” This quote describes the unfolding path of Nick Adkins from healthcare executive to kilt-wearing digital health evangelist. Nick Adkins joins the Pharmacy Podcast Show to share his passion for all things "Digital Health" and building a better patient care delivery model.  Nick Adkins is an Advisory Board Member with Carenection.  Carenection is a comprehensive solutions partner that brings together best-in-breed technology, network infrastructure and consulting services to create a seamless and transparent encounter for the patient and provider. Carenection is the most widely utilized telehealth network in the country, delivering over 40,000 encounters per month via thousands of video endpoints to hundreds of hospitals nationwide. Nick’s journey begins with a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi and a MBA from Belmont University.  A few of Nick’s initial stops were as a suit wearing executive for the Vanderbilt Health Plans and a serial entrepreneur in Nashville. Nick attended Burning Man in 2010 for the first time and the dust cleared from his eyes. He returned to Nashville, ditched the suits, sold his company, and set out on a new journey that took him to Portland, Oregon. Nick is a co-founder at ReelDx, the creators of the medvid.io open API for secure video messaging, a break through in telehealth. He serves as a thought leader for Carnegie Mellon University regarding elder care innovation and the use of telemedicine and design initiatives aimed at helping seniors age in place more comfortably. Nick also sits on the advisory board for BitCura, a platform based on democratizing healthcare by believing that healthcare is a human right and a global responsibility and that each person should have their own voice regarding how their data is used. Nick’s passion for seeing the awesomeness in people, connecting with them on a personal level, and sharing in their stories is what sets him apart from other leaders in healthcare. He has helped to push the industry to remember that patients/people/us are at the center of our work. His commitment to being present and open, listening to understand, and sharing heart speak, allow us to see the best of ourselves in each other.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  On today's Pharmacy Podcast we welcome returning guests Ollin Sykes with Sykes & Company - Pharmacy Accounting Experts and Jimmy Neil with Live Oak Bank to discuss the Key Performance Indicators of Pharmacy Businesses. Ollin and Jimmy answer the following questions about your pharmacy business:  How does my pharmacy business compare with my competitors? What is included in my cost of goods sold? What is my gross profit (gross margin) percentage and is this reasonable for my pharmacy business? How can I reduce my expenses without compromising my quality or service? What is my breakeven point and why is this important? Which of my products or services are making me the most profit? What can I do to improve my cashflow? How much net profit is my pharmacy making? Is my pharmacy business in a good position financially - will it be able to survive a downturn? How much money do I have invested in the business?     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We welcome back the first corporate sponsors of the Pharmacy Podcast Show, Retail Management Solutions - CEO Brad Jones and SVP - Mike Gross. The next generation of Pharmacy POS Technology is here: EvolutionPOS V.2   The flexibility that EvolutionPOS provides gives pharmacies the unprecedented ability to ring a sale up: At the pharmacy counter Within the store aisle while talking with a patient At the patient counseling area At curbside for convenient pickup At the patient’s front-door when doing deliveries At a flu-shot table At a county fair or nursing home And for outpatient pharmacies, at patient bedside during discharge. SNEAK PEAK - the next EVOLUTION POS:  http://www.rm-solutions.com/sneakpeek See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.