Autonomous Pharmacy: An Industry Movement to Free Hospital Pharmacists | Randy Lipps, CEO, Omnicell

From the point at which a medication arrives at a hospital's receiving dock to the time it's given to a patient, Omnicell systems are relied on to "store it, package it, barcode it, order it, issue it, and charge it." Now, CEO Randy Lipps wants to automate ALL OF IT -- getting medications from dockside to bedside, without the help of human hands. The Autonomous Pharmacy is not only Omnicell's bold vision for the future of medication management for hospitals that brings in robotics and software to improve the safety and accuracy of every aspect of the drug delivery process, but as Randy says, it's an "industry movement" to free the hospital pharmacist from the "basement pharmacy" and allow them to truly practice at the top of their license. Although integrating new tech into healthcare systems is never easy, this CEO says that it's less the tech -- and more the lack of urgency in shifting our mindset as an industry -- that's slowing us down. What exactly needs to change? Bold visions require big plans...

Filmed at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas, December 2019.

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Filmed at American Society of Hospital Pharmacies (Midyear) Conference in Las Vegas, December 2019