The role of technology in distribution accuracy and patient safety
Description In 2022, URAC reported 5x as many errors in drug distribution than in drug dispensing. Although dispensing software has helped automate the workflow, specialty pharmacy drug distribution has been ignored. As the shift to at-home care begins to accelerate, providers realize they must increase distribution accuracy to ensure patients are receiving their critical medications. […]
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 […]
How High Can They Go?! Specialty Drug Prices Continue to Rise
Specialty drug prices are on the rise… again. Expensive doesn’t even begin to cover the prices we’re seeing in the specialty drug market these days. What once seemed like a simple exercise in shipping has now become a high-stakes operation, ensuring that these critical, often exorbitant, life-saving medications get where they’re supposed to, when they’re […]
