Pharmacy Interoperability: Extending Beyond Pharmacy Boundaries—A Critical Healthcare Necessity
Pharmacy interoperability isn’t just a pharmacy issue; it’s a pivotal element impacting payers, providers, and patients. As healthcare and patient needs evolve, pharmacists' role expands beyond dispensing to include chronic disease management and collaborative care. This whitepaper, developed by Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) with support from the NCPDP Foundation, uncovers why seamless data exchange between pharmacies and other healthcare entities is essential to meet the needs of patients, whole team care coordination, support value-based models of care, reduce administrative burden, and cost reductions.
Why Does Pharmacy Interoperability Matter?
- Holistic Patient Care: Ensures that pharmacists have the right clinical information at their fingertips and can contribute their full range of clinical services - from medication management to preventive care and chronic disease monitoring - to patient care and medical records while enabling real-time collaboration with other healthcare providers to enhance coordination and patient safety.
- Reduced Costs and Improved Efficiency: Eliminates duplicative efforts and prevents unnecessary interventions by enabling seamless sharing of clinical services data, lab results, and interventions across care settings. This streamlines workflows for all healthcare stakeholders while maximizing the value of pharmacy-based clinical services in the overall care delivery system.
- Empowerment Across Stakeholders: Digital integration empowers pharmacists to share their full range of clinical services - from medication management to preventive care and chronic disease monitoring - allowing providers to access comprehensive patient care data, enabling payers to identify intervention opportunities, and ensuring patients benefit from truly coordinated healthcare across all settings.
What’s Inside This Whitepaper?
- Current Barriers and Future Strategies: Discover real obstacles facing pharmacy interoperability and the actionable steps needed to overcome them.
- Essential Recommendations: From establishing sustainable reimbursement models to adopting interoperable standards and fostering education, this paper outlines what’s necessary to drive progress.
- The Role of Emerging Technologies: Learn how innovations like AI, machine learning, and FHIR enablement are additional means of setting the stage for more connected care.
Be Part of the Solution
The time for pharmacy interoperability is now. Download our whitepaper to discover concrete steps your organization can take to help build a seamlessly connected healthcare ecosystem that maximizes the full clinical potential of pharmacy services.
