Pharmacy Innovators Podcast

In this exclusive episode of the Visante Pharmacy Innovators, our leaders seize the opportunity to delve into this year’s selections for the annual Top 10 and explain why four issues are particularly worth paying attention to. Steve Rough, Phil Brummond and Jim Jorgenson dig deeper into specialty pharmacy and infusion services, consolidated service centers, benchmarking and analytics, and pharmacy...

In this episode, Visante Executive Advisor Jim Jorgenson and Senior Director Dave Hager are joined by two experts in the pharmacy revenue cycle industry who provide valuable insights and knowledge on establishing an effective strategy and structure for success. Lindsey Amerine and Maxie Friemel, pioneers in the field, offer guidance on initiating the process, assembling a cross-functional team, pi...

Happy New Year, listeners! The start of the New Year usually comes with self-reflection and new intentions. As we continue to see staffing shortages, escalating workload demands, burnout and silent quitting as significant challenges for hospitals and health systems how do we address these labor concerns? In this episode, we embark on one of the topics that healthcare workers have the most trouble...

Discover the fascinating world of pharmacy informatics and technology and its profound impact on medication-use across the health system. In this episode, we delve into the trends, challenges, and opportunities in technology and informatics that are shaping the future of Pharmacy. From business analytics, interoperability, and technology optimization, we explore how technology innovations streamli...

In this episode of Visante Innovators, Jim Jorgenson talks with Pharmacy Stars CEO Keith Streckenbach. Keith is an innovator in sterile drug compounding and passionate about helping pharmacies reach their compliance goals and meet increasingly complex standards. With USP Chapters 797 and 800 becoming compendial, and therefore enforceable by boards of pharmacy or other regulatory agencies, quickly...

In this episode of Visante's Innovators podcast, successful pharmacy leaders, Melissa Ortega from Tufts Medicine and Staci Hermann from Dartmouth Health, join Jim Jorgenson for an in-depth discussion on the greatest challenges and opportunities facing the contemporary pharmacy leader.   Dave Hager moderates the discussion with these two phenomenal pharmacy trailblazers for an intriguing, timely li...

It’s a familiar theme in healthcare: the movement of traditional acute care to a variety of ambulatory settings. Infusion therapy is one of the fastest-growing examples of this transition, and the market continues to shift as a result of this strong growth. In this episode of our Visante Innovators podcast, we take a deeper look at what’s driving the expansion of the infusion market. Join Visante...

Why has an important quality and financial element like medical adherence flown under the radar all these years? Professor William (Bill) Kelly from Taneja College of Pharmacy at USF, joins our host, Jim Jorgenson, to discuss why pharmacist interventions and medication adherence are crucial to patients' quality of life. In the episode, Bill dives into his most recent publication on adherence and g...

Health systems have been plagued by shortages of pharmacy technicians and many fear it will continue to get worse. Rico Powell, Senior Consultant at Visante and Managing Partner at Professional Pharmacy Technician Academy, joins our host, Jim Jorgenson, to discuss the pharmacy technician crisis. In this episode, Rico highlights technicians’ role in medication safety and what pharmacy leaders can d...

Maria Kossilos, Assoc. Chief Pharmacy Officer at Cambridge Health Alliance, joins Kristin Fox-Smith (340B ACE), Managing Director at Visante, to discuss how pharmaceutical manufacturer restrictions – some as recent as last week – put enormous financial pressure on health systems and covered entities who are doing what they can to care for vulnerable and underserved patients across America.   Kossi...

In this episode of the pharmacy innovators podcast we have Ghalib Abbasi and Gee Mathen. These two innovators are making major breakthroughs in pharmacy automation and making it safer for patients! Let's see how they're doing that...

In part 3 of our series on automation, we're going to be talking about the optimization of the automation solution that has been selected.

In the first of our series on pharmacy automation we talked about initial planning...now, we discuss implementation!

In the first of four parts of our series on Pharmacy Automation Projects, we're going to discuss what goes into initial planning.

Kennedy was Born and raised in Olympia, WA, and is a student at Washington State University (WSU) College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Spokane Kennedy was elected the National President for APhA-ASP in 2021 and has been an advocate for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within the profession as well as the power of advocacy by promoting pharmacists to join together through pro...

Amar Festic is in charge of Business Development and sales for Loccioni USA, an innovation company focused on high end robotics for hospital pharmacies. He is one of the nation’s experts in robotics applied to IV compounding and has spent 10+ years implementing complex robotics projects and integrated platforms, working with some of the leading institutions in the United States (Mayo Clinic, Cleve...

Today on the show we have Pharmacist Dr. LaQuoia Johnson! LaQuoia is more than a pharmacist these days, she's also a life coach and educator that focuses largely on diversity, equity and inclusion.  LaQuoia started a program called Grace Culture that gives a framework for training people on diversity in the workplace.  If you'd like to contact LaQuoia, reach out to her by email at:  laquoiajohnson...

Today on the Pharmacy Innovators Podcast we welcome Alex Varkey. Alex is the Director of Pharmacy at Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. Alex received his PharmD from the University of Houston in 2005. He then completed a two-year administrative residency at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH while completing his Master of Science in Health-System Pharmacy...

On the first episode of Pharmacy Unscripted we welcome CEO of Visante, James Jorgenson. James is a pharmacy leader with over 30 years of experience in hospital management and leadership.