How Today’s Technology-Enabled Solutions are Empowering Clinical Supply Chain and Outpatient Pharmacy Leaders
Using Technology to Create a Clinically Integrated Supply Chain This past March, Maria Hayes, an established corporate account consultant in the healthcare industry and VPL’s Chief Strategy & Product Officer Derrek Seif joined Scott Tomko from Healthcare Purchasing News to discuss how hospital supply chain leaders can optimize the critical clinical areas of their hospitals […]
Finding the Right Mix of Services in Specialty Pharmacy Home Delivery
Who’s Delivering What Where? Finding the perfect ratio of carrier to courier is especially relevant for specialty pharmacies. In any business, finding the right mix of delivery services is a balancing act that can be dependent on the time of year, geographic factors, budget, and workflow. This is especially true for specialty pharmacy home delivery. […]
FedEx Combines Ground and Express. What does that mean for healthcare?
FedEx Is Consolidating Services “FedEx is consolidating its different operating companies into one organization,” reads the opening line of a recent article on supplychaindive.com. This consolidation, expected to be completed in June 2024, will combine FedEx Express, Ground, Services, and other operating companies into one Federal Express Corporation, complete with a fully integrated air-ground network. […]
Prescription Digital Therapeutics and More from #Asembia2023
A Recap of Asembia’s 2023 Specialty Pharmacy Summit Our team recently attended the AXS23 Conference put on by Asembia and enjoyed the opportunity to discuss exciting industry trends. AXS23 is a special event, not only because it’s the industry’s foremost annual meeting of specialty pharmacy stakeholders but also because VPL is a proud partner of […]
How to Prepare Your Healthcare Supply Chain for a Boom in Post-Acute Home Care
Better Care From Home We’ve been reading a lot lately about hospital-at-home, which enables some patients who need post-acute care to receive it in their own homes rather than in the hospital. According to the American Hospital Association™, hospital-at-home care “has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes, and enhance the patient experience.” Better patient […]
Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy: What are specialty drugs, and why is the hospital so important to their distribution?
What makes a specialty medication a specialty medication? We read an interesting blog the other day in which Jeni Hayes of Vizient, the healthcare performance improvement company in Irving, Texas, discussed how health system owned specialty pharmacy has “all but exploded in the modern healthcare arena” since its origins in the 1970s. (You can read […]
