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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.   Sponsored by UltiGuard Safe Pack is the only pen needle product that comes with an all-in-one sharps container. Learn more about why UltiGuard Safe Pack is the best choice for your patients and your pharmacy. Learn more UltiGuard Safe Pack https://www.ulticare.com/ultiguard-safe-pack/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices