Latest / Pharmacy Podcast Network / 2026 Cencora ThoughtSpot Rewind | Part Three
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- 0:05Speaker 1: You are listening to the global network of podcasters dedicated
- 0:09Speaker 1: to the pharmacy profession.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Welcome to the 2026 Sankora ThoughtSpot Rewind.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Hosted by Todd Urie, founder and CEO of the Pharmacy
- 0:34Speaker 4: Podcast Network. Embedded in the Outcomes booth, this is your
- 0:38Speaker 4: direct line into one of the biggest pharmacy events of
- 0:41Speaker 4: the year. You'll hear interviews from real pharmacy owners, keynote speakers,
- 0:46Speaker 4: first-time podcasters, and more. Only on the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
- 0:51Speaker 4: Made possible by the support of our sponsor, Outcomes.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Kashal Vangani.
- 1:00Speaker 5: Passionate pharmacist about clinical services and how it's changing the
- 1:05Speaker 5: game and connection between pharmacy and patient. Lots of patients, Kashal,
- 1:12Speaker 5: are very confused about different things that are happening in
- 1:14Speaker 5: their lives. The physician's very busy. They see the physician
- 1:18Speaker 5: for whatever checkup they're going through. The physician gives them
- 1:22Speaker 5: a prescription. They're like, all right, let's go to the pharmacy.
- 1:25Speaker 5: When you reach the pharmacy... That's the time, in many cases,
- 1:30Speaker 5: it's time to slow the process down, start investigating what
- 1:33Speaker 5: that patient's really going through, personalizing the services. Talk to
- 1:38Speaker 5: us about your passion around clinical services and how you
- 1:42Speaker 5: guys are changing the game for your patients.
- 1:45Speaker 6: I think for a long time, pharmacy was just focused
- 1:48Speaker 6: on so much of dispensing the medication rather than actually
- 1:52Speaker 6: understanding the health background of the patient. And a lot
- 1:55Speaker 6: of questions that they had, they actually didn't have any
- 2:00Speaker 6: health professional that they can go to and actually invest
- 2:02Speaker 6: the time. Being a pharmacist, I think we are the
- 2:06Speaker 6: most accessible health care provider there is in the health
- 2:09Speaker 6: care industry. So it's really easy for them to come
- 2:12Speaker 6: to any pharmacist, especially the retail independent pharmacist, who is
- 2:16Speaker 6: really caring for their patients, all about the community that
- 2:21Speaker 6: they serve. So actually adding a value to the patient's
- 2:26Speaker 6: life rather than just dispensing a medication, it's going to
- 2:28Speaker 6: be where I see the future of the pharmacies going.
- 2:33Speaker 6: We know that we deploy a lot of millions of
- 2:36Speaker 6: dollars to the healthcare, but the healthcare outcomes or clinical
- 2:39Speaker 6: outcomes hasn't been improved as per the amount of, has
- 2:47Speaker 6: been going through the healthcare industry.
- 2:48Speaker 2: So I think the pharmacies can.
- 2:51Speaker 6: Fill that gap where they can understand the patient's issues,
- 2:56Speaker 6: not just the medicine-related but overall health-related. There is a
- 3:00Speaker 6: pharmacist that can fill that gap.
- 3:03Speaker 5: Is there a disease state or a condition that keeps
- 3:08Speaker 5: raising its head throughout patients in the community where you're like,
- 3:12Speaker 5: This is an opportunity for us to really capitalize and
- 3:15Speaker 5: educate the patient of what they're going through, whether it's
- 3:17Speaker 5: diabetes or hypertension. Is there anything that you're seeing common
- 3:22Speaker 5: ground on?
- 3:24Speaker 6: Of course, the diabetes, hypertension, those are the chronic conditions
- 3:29Speaker 6: that's always going to be the forefront of all the
- 3:32Speaker 6: discussions happening with the patient. But I think the There
- 3:36Speaker 6: is a shift now under the patients. They're looking for
- 3:39Speaker 6: the prevention of those diseases rather than actually managing the
- 3:44Speaker 6: current disease that they have or how they can progress
- 3:46Speaker 6: if they are pre-diabetic, how they can push that progression
- 3:51Speaker 6: in the future. So overall health is a big topic
- 3:54Speaker 6: now about like vitamins or what they can do, lifestyle changes,
- 4:00Speaker 6: and the diet is a huge thing that's coming up.
- 4:03Speaker 6: as a pharmacist or even the medical doctors not being
- 4:06Speaker 6: trained enough about the nutrition and all of that. And
- 4:09Speaker 6: I think everything comes down now to the nutrition and
- 4:12Speaker 6: the oral health rather than just focusing on, okay, you
- 4:15Speaker 6: have this disease state, how are you going to manage that?
- 4:18Speaker 3: That's a good point.
- 4:19Speaker 5: The preventative, knowing what supplement to take, why to take it,
- 4:23Speaker 5: if it's working. There's even now new blood tests or
- 4:26Speaker 5: tests that you can say, hey, is that supplement even
- 4:30Speaker 5: doing anything for you? So I think that that's the
- 4:33Speaker 5: future for pharmacists to create lifetime relationships with patients instead
- 4:41Speaker 5: of it being, are you sick?
- 4:43Speaker 3: Oh, come to the pharmacy.
- 4:44Speaker 5: Now you're actually, you're communicating to the entire community, 100%
- 4:49Speaker 5: of the people in the community that you have an
- 4:51Speaker 5: opportunity to come and learn, be educated and be cared
- 4:56Speaker 5: for by your local independent community pharmacy in this way.
- 5:00Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that's why I think, as I mentioned,
- 5:03Speaker 6: that the value of the pharmacist now has to change
- 5:06Speaker 6: rather than just dispensing the medication. They have to fill
- 5:08Speaker 6: those gaps in. Most of the insurance companies now see
- 5:12Speaker 6: the value in it because now there is this actual
- 5:14Speaker 6: study that has been done, meta-analysis has been done, that
- 5:17Speaker 6: actually proves clinically that, you know, involvement of pharmacists in
- 5:21Speaker 6: those disease states, prevention and managing those disease states is
- 5:25Speaker 6: pharmacists has the biggest, not biggest, but valuable role to play.
- 5:29Speaker 5: Krishal, this has been a really good opportunity to connect
- 5:32Speaker 5: with you. Appreciate your time here at ThoughtSpot 2026 here
- 5:36Speaker 5: at the Outcomes booth.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
- 5:39Speaker 6: Thank you, Todd.
- 5:44Speaker 5: Here with Kevin Bozen from Outcomes. Kevin, welcome to the show.
- 5:49Speaker 7: Thanks, Todd. It's great to be here.
- 5:50Speaker 3: It's great to have you back.
- 5:52Speaker 5: You are not a newbie to the podcasting landscape.
- 5:56Speaker 3: No, I love it.
- 5:56Speaker 2: I love being here.
- 5:57Speaker 3: It's good to be with you.
- 5:58Speaker 5: All right, so the great care shift, this is happening
- 6:02Speaker 5: throughout the nation. It's happening to independent community pharmacy. Pharmacists,
- 6:08Speaker 5: pharmacy owners are not focused just on dispensing revenue. Give
- 6:13Speaker 5: us your interpretation of what is the great care shift
- 6:15Speaker 5: and how that applies to the success of our independent
- 6:18Speaker 5: community pharmacies out there.
- 6:20Speaker 8: Yeah, in general, pharmacists are critical to the overall success
- 6:24Speaker 8: of the health of this country for the future. So
- 6:28Speaker 8: the majority of healthcare costs are associated with chronic illness, diabetes, hypertension, asthma.
- 6:33Speaker 8: The only professional skilled and available to handle management of
- 6:37Speaker 8: that chronic illness is the community pharmacist. So I think
- 6:41Speaker 8: over the next three to five years, the great care
- 6:44Speaker 8: shift will be the primary care, core primary care provider
- 6:48Speaker 8: for anyone with chronic illness is going to be your
- 6:50Speaker 8: community pharmacist.
- 6:53Speaker 5: It's nice that they set up The initial diagnosis from
- 6:57Speaker 5: our physician, the physician kick off the ball. Sometimes they're
- 7:01Speaker 5: not seeing their patient for another two to three years.
- 7:04Speaker 5: Keeping people on track is so key. And then preventative
- 7:09Speaker 5: medicine is so key. And I think there's a combination
- 7:11Speaker 5: there when you're thinking about what is that shift in
- 7:14Speaker 5: health care delivery?
- 7:16Speaker 3: What is that shift in health care accessibility? Yeah, it's
- 7:19Speaker 3: a whole range of services that pharmacies can provide.
- 7:23Speaker 8: So to your point, once you've been diagnosed with a
- 7:25Speaker 8: chronic illness, you're primarily managing that with medications. But there's
- 7:29Speaker 8: so much more that in order for someone to live
- 7:32Speaker 8: a healthy lifestyle, to really increase their health span, you've
- 7:35Speaker 8: got to be thinking about nutrition, diet, exercise, mental.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Health, mental well-being.
- 7:40Speaker 8: And the pharmacist can support all those things out of
- 7:43Speaker 8: their community, not just the drug, not just the drug management.
- 7:46Speaker 3: I think the other thing, too, when you get diagnosed with.
- 7:49Speaker 8: Some sort of chronic illness, people forget that if you're
- 7:52Speaker 8: not in that space, if you're not in the healthcare space,
- 7:55Speaker 8: what does it mean to have high blood pressure long term?
- 7:57Speaker 7: What are the.
- 7:58Speaker 8: Secondary impact of those types of things? And how can
- 8:02Speaker 8: a pharmacist help from just an education standpoint?
- 8:05Speaker 4: So why is it important that you manage this?
- 8:09Speaker 8: From everything to think about like a patient that lives
- 8:12Speaker 8: a very, very healthy life or just a person that
- 8:14Speaker 8: lives a very, very healthy life. If you're diagnosed with
- 8:17Speaker 8: a chronic illness in your 30s and your 40s and
- 8:19Speaker 8: you don't manage it, you're not going to have grandkids,
- 8:22Speaker 8: great grandkids that you're going to be able to run
- 8:24Speaker 8: around with when you're 80 or 90. And I think
- 8:26Speaker 8: that's what we all want.
- 8:27Speaker 3: It's true.
- 8:28Speaker 5: So when I think of as an operator, owners, people
- 8:31Speaker 5: that are building businesses in their pharmacy, if I don't
- 8:34Speaker 5: have a platform in order to make this evolution and
- 8:37Speaker 5: make it Hey, this isn't just printing a label anymore
- 8:40Speaker 5: and getting a delivery scheduled. This is really designing care
- 8:44Speaker 5: plans purposely for specific patients that really want you to
- 8:48Speaker 5: dial into their health. They're very interested in their health.
- 8:52Speaker 5: What platform and how is Outcomes being leveraged to deliver
- 8:56Speaker 5: some of those solutions to our pharmacists?
- 8:58Speaker 8: Yeah, number one thing I love about the Outcomes ecosystem
- 9:02Speaker 8: is that full range of platforms.
- 9:03Speaker 2: So it supports.
- 9:05Speaker 8: the medication dispensing that you have to do, the daily operations,
- 9:09Speaker 8: but it does it in an efficient way where you
- 9:11Speaker 8: can add clinical services on top of that.
- 9:13Speaker 3: So to have the.
- 9:14Speaker 8: Outcomes platform where you have sort of a clinical driven nature,
- 9:19Speaker 8: of you're really there to provide education, support, improve the
- 9:22Speaker 8: health outcomes of the patient is really the design. So
- 9:26Speaker 8: have workflow automation with our outcomes platform, have clinical opportunity
- 9:31Speaker 8: documentation with the outcomes platform.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Through one ecosystem, you get all that.
- 9:35Speaker 5: Kevin, appreciate you being here on the press coverage of
- 9:39Speaker 5: ThoughtSpot 2026. Can't say, say ThoughtSpot fast three times and
- 9:44Speaker 5: watch yourself stumble over your time.
- 9:46Speaker 8: Oh man, if you say ThoughtSpot three times fast, I
- 9:49Speaker 8: think like that's just good for your business.
- 9:51Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.
- 9:52Speaker 7: All right.
- 9:53Speaker 9: Thanks, Todd.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Pharmacy teams today are expected to do more than ever.
- 10:00Speaker 1: process prescriptions faster, manage growing workloads, navigate constant interruptions, and
- 10:05Speaker 1: still deliver exceptional patient care. That's why Outcomes is introducing
- 10:11Speaker 1: a new pharmacy experience across both Rx30 and Computer Rx,
- 10:16Speaker 1: designed to help pharmacies work smarter, move faster, and operate
- 10:20Speaker 1: with greater confidence. Rx30 delivers a modern, intuitive workflow with
- 10:25Speaker 1: streamlined navigation, guided processes, unified work queues, and automation that
- 10:31Speaker 1: reduces manual effort while preserving the trusted foundation pharmacies rely
- 10:35Speaker 1: on every day. At the same time, computer Rx continues
- 10:40Speaker 1: to evolve, with enhancements focused on performance, workflow efficiency, stability,
- 10:45Speaker 1: and practical automation that remove friction from daily operations. Together,
- 10:50Speaker 1: these investments are centered on a single goal, helping pharmacy
- 10:54Speaker 1: teams spend less time navigating software and more time focusing
- 10:58Speaker 1: on patients. Whether you're an Rx30 or computer Rx customer,
- 11:02Speaker 1: you'll benefit from a pharmacy experience designed around real-world workflows,
- 11:07Speaker 1: reduced complexity, improved efficiency, and continuous innovation. The future of
- 11:13Speaker 1: pharmacy technology is about changing how you work and making
- 11:16Speaker 1: every step work better along the way.
- 11:30Speaker 3: ThoughtSpot 2026 here with Gold and Nao. Gold, we are
- 11:36Speaker 3: on LinkedIn.
- 11:37Speaker 5: I don't know how long we've been LinkedIn, but I
- 11:39Speaker 5: recognize your face. I recognize your name. It's so good
- 11:42Speaker 5: to meet you in person.
- 11:44Speaker 10: Yes, definitely excited to be here.
- 11:46Speaker 3: Thank you for the invite. Absolutely. We're very excited.
- 11:50Speaker 5: This is our second year covering the ThoughtSpot 2026 or
- 11:56Speaker 5: ThoughtSpot in general. I want to give a shout out
- 11:58Speaker 5: to the Sincora public relations and marketing team for giving
- 12:03Speaker 5: us this opportunity to come back. We absolutely love the vibe,
- 12:07Speaker 5: the energy. But what I'm most excited about is the
- 12:11Speaker 5: plate tectonics of our industry is shifting. The public isn't
- 12:16Speaker 5: aware of it, but pharmacists are becoming so much more
- 12:20Speaker 5: positioned as the clinicians to dig down into disease state management,
- 12:25Speaker 5: into deprescribing or birth control or HIV or helping their patients,
- 12:32Speaker 5: their community understand supplements without wasting money and really dialing
- 12:36Speaker 5: into it and pharmacogenomics.
- 12:38Speaker 3: That's your bag. That's what you get passionate about.
- 12:42Speaker 5: So talk to us about how Sincora is supporting the
- 12:46Speaker 5: evolution of the future of pharmacists and future of pharmacies.
- 12:50Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a really good one. And honestly, you're right.
- 12:53Speaker 3: That is my passion.
- 12:54Speaker 10: I get really excited about what pharmacists can do and
- 12:58Speaker 10: where the profession can go as well. If we remember
- 13:01Speaker 10: a couple of years ago, pharmacists were providing care, but
- 13:06Speaker 10: it was a little bit different. I think the recognition
- 13:09Speaker 10: now with some of the scope of practice changes, we
- 13:11Speaker 10: see some new laws being passed as well as being
- 13:15Speaker 10: presented to Senate around pharmacists' abilities and capabilities when it
- 13:19Speaker 10: comes to care. Those things are what's really driving a
- 13:23Speaker 10: lot of the changes that we're seeing today. But it
- 13:26Speaker 10: can be complicated for pharmacists to really understand with everything
- 13:30Speaker 10: else that they have going on. I mean, some of
- 13:32Speaker 10: our pharmacists here are They're doing some amazing things, but
- 13:35Speaker 10: they're owners, they're operators, and that can be hard to
- 13:39Speaker 10: keep up with industry trend. I'm excited about the work
- 13:42Speaker 10: that Sancora, the Good Neighbor Pharmacy team is doing. One,
- 13:46Speaker 10: on educating pharmacists about the opportunities that are available, scope
- 13:50Speaker 10: of practice changes. But being a partner, I think that's
- 13:53Speaker 10: one thing that we benefit or that I'm excited about
- 13:56Speaker 10: when it comes to being at Sancora is partnering with pharmacies.
- 14:00Speaker 10: to help them embrace and really step into the future
- 14:03Speaker 10: of pharmacy, whether that includes birth control prescribing or even
- 14:07Speaker 10: getting paid medically for services. But I am excited about
- 14:12Speaker 10: the future. I'm passionate about what's going to happen. But
- 14:15Speaker 10: now is the time that we put the groundwork on,
- 14:17Speaker 10: and I'm really excited to be here with our pharmacies
- 14:21Speaker 10: laying that groundwork for us to start seeing some of
- 14:23Speaker 10: the benefits of pharmacies Expanded scope. So seeing the outcome increase.
- 14:28Speaker 5: Well, it's exciting to hear it coming from your perspective
- 14:31Speaker 5: because Sincora is one of those three large powerhouses that
- 14:38Speaker 5: is the infrastructure of procurement.
- 14:41Speaker 3: It's the infrastructure of logistics.
- 14:43Speaker 5: It's the infrastructure of getting the medication to the pharmacies,
- 14:47Speaker 5: to the patients. And there's so much behind the scenes
- 14:50Speaker 5: that nobody would know what's going on. So when you
- 14:53Speaker 5: were talking about the complexity, let's zero in on clinical.
- 14:58Speaker 5: If you were to think, I'm a P3, I got
- 15:02Speaker 5: one more year of pharmacy school to go, I'm looking
- 15:05Speaker 5: at my future, I definitely want to go into something
- 15:08Speaker 5: that's a little bit more consultative, maybe women's health specifically.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Is there any.
- 15:15Speaker 5: Vertical of care that you've seen pharmacists really shine around?
- 15:19Speaker 5: Something that is a story that you're like, wow, they
- 15:22Speaker 5: really hit this out of the park.
- 15:24Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good question. So one of our pharmacies today,
- 15:29Speaker 10: and to be honest with you, we have a lot
- 15:31Speaker 10: of pharmacies that are doing some really great things.
- 15:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine.
- 15:34Speaker 10: And you're putting me on the spot, so I can't
- 15:35Speaker 10: remember all of them. But one that I do want
- 15:38Speaker 10: to recognize is Bayshore Pharmacy.
- 15:42Speaker 3: In New Jersey.
- 15:44Speaker 10: Rich and his wife, Jill, they've been doing some really
- 15:46Speaker 10: amazing things around diabetes care management. Yes, everyone has diabetes,
- 15:51Speaker 10: so it's a perfect opportunity for them, especially with New
- 15:54Speaker 10: Jersey having such limited scope at this moment. They were
- 15:58Speaker 10: still able to put that program in place to serve
- 16:01Speaker 10: their community. They're offering those classes.
- 16:03Speaker 3: They're doing testing.
- 16:05Speaker 10: They're and diabetes care, as well as foot therapy as well.
- 16:09Speaker 10: So they're really looking at that patient holistically from head
- 16:12Speaker 10: to toe and looking at programs and services that they
- 16:15Speaker 10: can provide to their community in order to do that.
- 16:18Speaker 10: When we think about Washington State, we have another pharmacy there,
- 16:22Speaker 10: Sumas Drugs. They're doing... consultation, which everyone says like, oh,
- 16:27Speaker 10: you know, that's normal for pharmacists, but they went above
- 16:29Speaker 10: and beyond ensuring that their time is protected by getting
- 16:32Speaker 10: credentialed and contracted and getting paid for those services and
- 16:36Speaker 10: those conversations that they're having in their community. But if
- 16:39Speaker 10: I was to sit here and list all the work
- 16:42Speaker 10: that our pharmacies are doing, like we probably wouldn't leave this.
- 16:45Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd be here a couple of years. Yes, we would. Yes,
- 16:48Speaker 3: we would.
- 16:48Speaker 10: Our pharmacies are really innovative. And for those that are
- 16:51Speaker 10: considering it, This is the opportunity, and I've seen them
- 16:54Speaker 10: already connecting with others and making those connections that when
- 16:57Speaker 10: they get back home, they have a lot of work
- 17:00Speaker 10: to do, and we're happy to partner with them to
- 17:02Speaker 10: get it done.
- 17:03Speaker 5: All right, listeners, if you're listening to Gold and I
- 17:05Speaker 5: talk right now and you're interested in learning more about
- 17:08Speaker 5: the support that Sincora provides, Good Neighbor Pharmacy's, reach out
- 17:12Speaker 5: to the Pharmacy Podcast Network. We're going to get you
- 17:14Speaker 5: in touch with Gold. Gold, this has been a very
- 17:17Speaker 5: special interview. Thanks for doing this.
- 17:21Speaker 2: This is Nick Burnaby with Outcomes, and you're listening to
- 17:24Speaker 2: the Pharmacy Podcast.
- 17:30Speaker 5: Nick, it's so good to have you on the show
- 17:32Speaker 5: here at Outcomes. The booth is just crowded here. People
- 17:40Speaker 5: want to know what's going on. ThoughtSpot 2026, this is
- 17:43Speaker 5: our second time back at ThoughtSpot. Shout out to Sincora
- 17:47Speaker 5: for having us come in as podcast press.
- 17:50Speaker 10: How are you doing?
- 17:52Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I think I'm losing my voice because
- 17:55Speaker 2: it's been so busy here. A lot of talking, great
- 17:58Speaker 2: conversations though. So I feel very invigorated.
- 18:01Speaker 5: The invigoration comes from the passion because when I come
- 18:04Speaker 5: to these events and I hear pharmacy owners with joy
- 18:08Speaker 5: in their voices and not what we went through four
- 18:12Speaker 5: and five years ago when people weren't sure how they
- 18:15Speaker 5: were going to survive. And not that it's not hard,
- 18:18Speaker 5: but I think people see the new path of pharmacy
- 18:23Speaker 5: versus where we came from 5, 10, 20 years ago.
- 18:27Speaker 5: It's not just about that dispensing fee anymore. There's so
- 18:30Speaker 5: much more that we could be doing. However, if you
- 18:33Speaker 5: don't implement the right technology and have the right workflow
- 18:38Speaker 5: and train your team on different things, it can become
- 18:43Speaker 5: very complicated to manage. to be profitable and to make
- 18:46Speaker 5: money and to be able to scale. Talk to us
- 18:49Speaker 5: about your division and how you work with outcomes, how
- 18:53Speaker 5: you work with pharmacy owners throughout the nation, and some
- 18:56Speaker 5: of the technology that's extremely interesting.
- 18:58Speaker 3: That you actually you're like the project lead on.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. We kind of have to
- 19:05Speaker 2: rethink the pharmacy and its operations from the ground up
- 19:10Speaker 2: again when we talk about where are we shifting the
- 19:13Speaker 2: model to perform pharmacy the way we have to in
- 19:17Speaker 2: today's pharmacy world, right? So To your point, I work
- 19:20Speaker 2: in the pharmacy automation area. That's the pillar that I'm under.
- 19:24Speaker 2: And my products are all designed to optimize and create
- 19:30Speaker 2: efficiencies within the operational fulfillment process. So the way that
- 19:35Speaker 2: we do that is through a couple of different products.
- 19:38Speaker 2: So the first product, I kind of like to think
- 19:40Speaker 2: of it like if we were in a step dip
- 19:42Speaker 2: our toe into that type of automation is our pill
- 19:45Speaker 2: count product so the pill count product is an automation
- 19:49Speaker 2: product that lets us introduce automated counting that uses machine learning.
- 19:54Speaker 2: So it's an AI enabled and it's a buzzword out there,
- 19:57Speaker 2: but it's really, it's an older technology that has been
- 20:01Speaker 2: out for about five years. It's been trained in pharmacies
- 20:04Speaker 2: and real world data. And it will count the tablets
- 20:08Speaker 2: as you pour them on the tray instead of having
- 20:10Speaker 2: to manually count those. A lot of people are using
- 20:13Speaker 2: automated counters in their pharmacies now. So that helps alleviate
- 20:17Speaker 2: bottlenecks during that fulfillment process. But what we're doing a
- 20:20Speaker 2: little bit differently is our product is integrated in a
- 20:23Speaker 2: way that allows for you to step up from that
- 20:26Speaker 2: pill count into digitization of the prescription. That's where our
- 20:32Speaker 2: products really start touching the, I can think of it,
- 20:36Speaker 2: revolutionizing the workflow to allow for a shifting of the
- 20:41Speaker 2: labor model in the pharmacy. So we know that fulfillment
- 20:44Speaker 2: is not our primary profit-driving purpose in a pharmacy anymore.
- 20:50Speaker 2: As you said, there's a lot of changes. Reimbursements are
- 20:53Speaker 2: very different. And we know that pharmacies can't survive now
- 20:57Speaker 2: just filling prescriptions. And that's still a need that the
- 21:00Speaker 2: community absolutely has. But clinical services are now really the
- 21:06Speaker 2: focus of a pharmacy and having those pharmacists practice at
- 21:09Speaker 2: the top of their license. And our product will allow
- 21:12Speaker 2: them to do that by digitizing that prescription fill with
- 21:15Speaker 2: our virtual verification to present that digitized fill, or as
- 21:19Speaker 2: we like to think of, the digital basket, and let
- 21:22Speaker 2: that pharmacist really... keep all of their focus on one platform,
- 21:27Speaker 2: no context switching, optimizes no touching of the baskets, no
- 21:31Speaker 2: opening those bottles that cumbersome manual process, and lets them
- 21:36Speaker 2: review all of it through a digital review on the computer.
- 21:40Speaker 5: I want to hear more about the accuracy because I
- 21:42Speaker 5: was hearing from one of your colleagues about multiple tablets
- 21:48Speaker 5: or pills being placed on the counter and it being
- 21:51Speaker 5: able to discern and make, you know, accurate readings.
- 21:57Speaker 3: And so talk to us about that.
- 21:59Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 22:00Speaker 2: So the Pill Count product has a feature within it
- 22:02Speaker 2: that is called Pill ID. Pill ID is a very cool,
- 22:07Speaker 2: we like to think quadrangulation. That's not a word. I
- 22:10Speaker 2: don't know if it's a word. We decided we're calling
- 22:12Speaker 2: it quadrangulation. But we take four attributes from those items
- 22:16Speaker 2: on the tray. So size, size. shape, color, and size.
- 22:21Speaker 2: And we are able to look and assess that tray
- 22:23Speaker 2: to see if it is the correct item that is
- 22:26Speaker 2: supposed to be on the tray. And then we can
- 22:28Speaker 2: determine if there are broken tablets or incorrect tablets on
- 22:32Speaker 2: the tray. And that is 99.9% accurate at being able
- 22:38Speaker 2: to accurately assess the tray contents for a prescription fill
- 22:42Speaker 2: because of a deep integration with MediSpan as well as
- 22:45Speaker 2: that training that we've been doing. And that's been trained
- 22:48Speaker 2: on over 50 million prescriptions.
- 22:51Speaker 10: Jeez.
- 22:52Speaker 5: All right, and then in the workflow and how this
- 22:55Speaker 5: is rolling out, who is the education factor to marrying
- 23:04Speaker 5: the counting technology to workflow? Is it the master tech?
- 23:08Speaker 5: Is it someone who specializes in workflow? Are they coming
- 23:11Speaker 5: back to the outcomes team and saying, hey, help me
- 23:13Speaker 5: put this into my workflow to implement it?
- 23:15Speaker 3: How does that usually work?
- 23:17Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's going to really be dependent on what
- 23:21Speaker 2: different tools you use, right? I like to think that
- 23:24Speaker 2: we offer a full service. It's kind of like consulting, right,
- 23:29Speaker 2: when you get a new product. So we like to,
- 23:31Speaker 2: if you're with one of our products, RX30, ComputerRX, then
- 23:35Speaker 2: it makes it a lot easier because the implementation specialists
- 23:38Speaker 2: are going to be able to make those decisions with
- 23:41Speaker 2: you on site when you're getting trained. But additionally, we
- 23:45Speaker 2: kind of look at every pharmacy as a, it's like
- 23:47Speaker 2: an interesting puzzle, right? And so we work with those owners.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Sometimes that's my team. Sometimes that's our implementation team to
- 23:55Speaker 2: work with them and say, how do you do things now?
- 23:58Speaker 2: Can we minimize the disruption while giving you these efficiencies?
- 24:03Speaker 2: But also, are you doing it as efficient as you
- 24:06Speaker 2: could be doing it? Is there changes that we can
- 24:08Speaker 2: make to increase efficiency that is, sure, with the technology,
- 24:12Speaker 2: but also maybe just operationally? And so we like to
- 24:15Speaker 2: provide those services when we do go in and implement
- 24:18Speaker 2: these products.
- 24:19Speaker 5: Nick, this has been good because it gives us more
- 24:23Speaker 5: content and understanding of being able to piece together the
- 24:27Speaker 5: right technology for a pharmacy, a pharmacy operator that's listening
- 24:31Speaker 5: in and saying, hey, this is something that I'm absolutely
- 24:35Speaker 5: interested in looking more into. I'm going to put in
- 24:40Speaker 5: the show notes your name so that we can remember
- 24:44Speaker 5: who to reach out to at the outcomes team. But
- 24:47Speaker 5: very much appreciate you being on the show and being
- 24:50Speaker 5: part of the ThoughtSpot 2026 coverage.
- 24:53Speaker 9: Thank you.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Steve Dolan, Stephen Dolan, actually, Monroe Pharmacy from Toledo, Ohio,
- 25:05Speaker 5: here with me at the Outcomes booth at ThoughtSpot 2026.
- 25:09Speaker 3: It's good to be.
- 25:11Speaker 7: Here with you. Thank you. Glad to be here with you.
- 25:13Speaker 3: First podcast, Stephen.
- 25:14Speaker 5: You had to make it the pharmacy podcast, the best
- 25:16Speaker 5: one out there.
- 25:17Speaker 7: Absolutely.
- 25:19Speaker 10: All right.
- 25:19Speaker 3: Talk to me. Give our listeners an.
- 25:21Speaker 5: Update about your operation, your pharmacy. Talk to us about
- 25:26Speaker 5: the mix of services that you're providing to the community.
- 25:30Speaker 5: And then I have some more questions.
- 25:33Speaker 7: We're all about customer care.
- 25:35Speaker 11: We've been there 76 years now. My father bought it
- 25:39Speaker 11: in 1960. It was 10 years old. It's all about
- 25:43Speaker 11: patient care, being there for people.
- 25:46Speaker 5: And you're doing, obviously, community retail. Are you doing any
- 25:51Speaker 5: long-term care, assisted living, or maybe non-sterile compounding?
- 25:57Speaker 11: We're doing no compounding, but we are small assisted living,
- 26:01Speaker 11: individual care at.
- 26:05Speaker 5: Home.
- 26:05Speaker 7: It's all good.
- 26:08Speaker 5: Where's the expansion of independent community pharmacy coming from? Do
- 26:11Speaker 5: you see it morphing from, you said you've been around.
- 26:15Speaker 3: For over 70 years.
- 26:18Speaker 5: Clients, customers that are, let's say, started with you 30
- 26:23Speaker 5: years ago, maybe they're not able to get out of
- 26:26Speaker 5: their homes. Is there an element of delivery? Is there
- 26:29Speaker 5: an element of expansion to be able to not lose
- 26:32Speaker 5: the customer, to follow them into their home? Talk to
- 26:35Speaker 5: us about some of that other strategy.
- 26:36Speaker 11: We provide free delivery, whatever the patient needs, compliance packaging,
- 26:45Speaker 11: free delivery.
- 26:47Speaker 7: Sink medications.
- 26:49Speaker 11: Try to be there for whatever the purpose is, whatever
- 26:52Speaker 11: they need.
- 26:55Speaker 5: The world of immunizations and being able to teach your
- 27:00Speaker 5: community that you're doing more than.
- 27:03Speaker 5: Just dispensing, you might be providing other service. What other
- 27:07Speaker 5: services are interesting to your community?
- 27:11Speaker 11: Very much expanding in the immunization department. We partnered up
- 27:15Speaker 11: with Nimble about a year and a half ago. They
- 27:19Speaker 11: have a program where they send reminders for people to.
- 27:21Speaker 7: Get their vaccines.
- 27:22Speaker 3: Nice.
- 27:23Speaker 7: That increased us. We do go.
- 27:26Speaker 11: We call a bunch of businesses in the area, and
- 27:28Speaker 11: we'll go probably.
- 27:32Speaker 11: I'm guessing 1,200 vaccines last year.
- 27:34Speaker 3: Holy cow.
- 27:36Speaker 7: There might be... We might go.
- 27:38Speaker 11: We'll go out if they got five employees that want vaccines.
- 27:42Speaker 11: And we've gone some places that have been 150. You know,
- 27:46Speaker 11: we might have to make two trips to hit both shifts.
- 27:49Speaker 9: Right.
- 27:49Speaker 7: But I don't like to use the word no.
- 27:51Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 27:52Speaker 5: And serve your clients so that they're not going somewhere
- 27:55Speaker 5: else to get it. And then that really leaves a...
- 27:59Speaker 5: the reputation of what your business is. It's more about
- 28:03Speaker 5: just being a pharmacy. You're part of that community. You're
- 28:06Speaker 5: caring enough to show up at their work. doing immunization,
- 28:10Speaker 5: I think that that service is, I think it's huge.
- 28:13Speaker 7: We are.
- 28:14Speaker 5: Busy people that don't have time to, you know, they're home,
- 28:17Speaker 5: they're getting home from work. It's like, oh, I got
- 28:20Speaker 5: to schedule my immunization to go to the pharmacy to
- 28:22Speaker 5: get it done.
- 28:24Speaker 3: You're coming to them.
- 28:25Speaker 11: That, and we generally don't schedule. We usually take walk-ins.
- 28:30Speaker 11: We try to greet people in the aisles when we
- 28:31Speaker 11: have the time.
- 28:35Speaker 7: It's old school.
- 28:36Speaker 11: You take the product off the shelf that's right for
- 28:38Speaker 11: that patient that you recommend, and you put it in
- 28:40Speaker 11: the customer's hand. They buy it. They don't put it
- 28:43Speaker 11: back on the shelf. If you point to it and
- 28:45Speaker 11: tell them this is what you need, it's not the same.
- 28:49Speaker 3: That recommendation goes far.
- 28:51Speaker 11: And we don't have an IVR system for our phones.
- 28:54Speaker 7: We answer the phone. That's important. I think IVRs.
- 28:59Speaker 11: Are overused, and they're programmed to prevent you from getting
- 29:04Speaker 11: a human. So we much prefer the human contact.
- 29:09Speaker 3: This is interesting.
- 29:10Speaker 5: I also want to know what other services. Are there
- 29:13Speaker 5: any clinical services you're looking into? Is there birth control?
- 29:18Speaker 5: Is there other services that you've looked at to try
- 29:21Speaker 5: to round out.
- 29:22Speaker 3: What you're doing?
- 29:22Speaker 7: Part of what I'm doing here, but not a lot
- 29:24Speaker 7: at the moment.
- 29:24Speaker 9: Okay.
- 29:26Speaker 7: The over-the-counter birth control is not very popular.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Okay.
- 29:29Speaker 11: Most people, young people get on insurance of some sort.
- 29:35Speaker 7: Usually it's no co-pay, so we don't sell a lot
- 29:37Speaker 7: of that.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate you being here on the show.
- 29:41Speaker 5: I love talking to pharmacy owners and getting new ideas
- 29:44Speaker 5: about the innovation of the industry, so I appreciate you
- 29:47Speaker 5: being here.
- 29:48Speaker 7: All right, Todd. Thank you very much. I appreciate you
- 29:50Speaker 7: having me.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 29:51Speaker 9: Hi, this is Dahlia Rios with Outcomes, and you're listening
- 29:58Speaker 9: to the Pharmacy Podcast.
- 30:03Speaker 5: Dahlia, a fellow podcaster. I know you don't want to
- 30:07Speaker 5: admit it, but you are a fellow podcaster, aren't you?
- 30:09Speaker 3: I don't want to admit it. I plead the fifth.
- 30:14Speaker 3: You plead the fifth.
- 30:15Speaker 5: You do some content development around RX30 and really helping
- 30:19Speaker 5: people maximize the extraction of that. I want to shift
- 30:23Speaker 5: gears though and talk about what's happening in pharmacy. We're
- 30:26Speaker 5: moving from strictly dispensing to a lot more hands-on, a
- 30:31Speaker 5: lot more clinical services. What's your experience been seeing the
- 30:35Speaker 5: blossoming of our independent community pharmacies into those roles?
- 30:39Speaker 10: Wow.
- 30:40Speaker 9: So this is a huge shift, right? Rx30 has evolved
- 30:46Speaker 9: tremendously with the new cloud-based system. I mean, we are
- 30:53Speaker 9: getting a lot of feedback, and people are loving it, right?
- 30:58Speaker 9: Because they are innovating. They love innovation, and so.
- 31:07Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 31:07Speaker 3: A lot of great feedback.
- 31:08Speaker 5: I think the guidance that you're providing to your clients
- 31:12Speaker 5: and understanding how to maximize the programs now fold into
- 31:16Speaker 5: an ability to go to patients and say, you have diabetes,
- 31:20Speaker 5: you have hypertension, you want to be healthier. Systems of
- 31:26Speaker 5: the past. Think about RX30 20 years ago. It didn't
- 31:31Speaker 5: have those capabilities of tracking treatments. Now it's like we
- 31:35Speaker 5: have this ability to track other things other than just
- 31:38Speaker 5: the medication, and that's the holistic aspect of healthcare. That's
- 31:43Speaker 5: the holistic aspect of.
- 31:44Speaker 3: People in pharmacy.
- 31:46Speaker 5: So what are you most excited about when you think
- 31:49Speaker 5: of the technology fusing with the future of pharmacy?
- 31:54Speaker 9: I am super excited about technology. I mean, that's definitely
- 31:58Speaker 9: the in thing, right? AI, machine learning, innovation, integration, and
- 32:03Speaker 9: that's the future. Let the machine do what it's supposed
- 32:08Speaker 9: to do, what it's.
- 32:09Speaker 3: Meant to be.
- 32:10Speaker 9: And where our clients, our pharmacies, have more time to
- 32:16Speaker 9: engage with their patients and patient care and clinicals and
- 32:20Speaker 9: I mean that's that's.
- 32:22Speaker 5: The goal it is having the ability to keep our
- 32:27Speaker 5: independent community pharmacies profitable using tools that are set up
- 32:31Speaker 5: to do exactly that through reporting catching things they may
- 32:34Speaker 5: have missed and then teaching them how to use that
- 32:37Speaker 5: over and over and over again It's all about repetition.
- 32:40Speaker 5: I think of the services that you provide and the
- 32:42Speaker 5: teaching that you provide out on the YouTube channel about
- 32:46Speaker 5: how to do things.
- 32:47Speaker 3: It seems minuscule. It seems repetitive.
- 32:50Speaker 5: But just like going to the gym, if you exercise
- 32:53Speaker 5: over and over again, that's how you get muscle tone.
- 32:56Speaker 3: And I think of muscle tone in our businesses, too.
- 32:58Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great analogy.
- 33:00Speaker 3: I like that.
- 33:01Speaker 2: We have a lot of tools that our.
- 33:04Speaker 9: Clients, our pharmacies can use, like you mentioned reporting, like
- 33:08Speaker 9: the automated data entry. I mean, again, it's going to
- 33:12Speaker 9: free up their staff time. We don't want them to
- 33:16Speaker 9: get rid of their staff. We want them to... be
- 33:20Speaker 9: freed up to do what they should be doing, right?
- 33:23Speaker 2: Patient care.
- 33:24Speaker 3: That's important.
- 33:25Speaker 9: Patient care.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 33:26Speaker 5: Hey, learn more by going to outcomes.com. Reach out to
- 33:31Speaker 5: the team. They'll explain much.
- 33:33Speaker 3: More of the systems that are out there for you.
- 33:35Speaker 5: Dahlia, thank you for being part of the ThoughtSpot 2026 coverage.
- 33:39Speaker 9: My pleasure. Thank you so much, Todd.
- 33:46Speaker 5: Thought spot 2026, Christian Hample.
- 33:50Speaker 3: What's the name of your pharmacy?
- 33:52Speaker 7: Family Prescription Counter.
- 33:53Speaker 3: And you're out of Pennsylvania, right?
- 33:55Speaker 7: Northeast, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton area.
- 33:56Speaker 3: What's the name of the city, though?
- 33:58Speaker 12: Duryea.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Duryea.
- 34:00Speaker 7: Do you know what?
- 34:00Speaker 5: I've been a resident of Pennsylvania since 1972, was born
- 34:05Speaker 5: in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- 34:06Speaker 3: I've never heard of Duryea.
- 34:08Speaker 12: We're between Pittston and Old Forge, the pizza capital of
- 34:11Speaker 12: the world.
- 34:12Speaker 7: Really?
- 34:12Speaker 12: Really.
- 34:13Speaker 3: Pizza capital of the world. We're going to have to
- 34:15Speaker 3: do a podcast on pizza. I love pizza.
- 34:17Speaker 9: Oh, bye.
- 34:18Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 34:19Speaker 5: Hey, I used to sell pharmacy management technology. That's how
- 34:24Speaker 5: I entered pharmacy way back in 2004. And the relationships
- 34:28Speaker 5: that we built with our customers was so important. There
- 34:32Speaker 5: were good times. There were struggles. There were bad times.
- 34:35Speaker 5: There was frustration. It's when we stayed in the boat
- 34:39Speaker 5: with them in order to see them through. in order
- 34:42Speaker 5: to really drill down on the issue and come up
- 34:46Speaker 5: with answers. No system out there in all things pharmacy
- 34:50Speaker 5: management systems is perfect, but it's the ones that when
- 34:52Speaker 5: they stay in the boat with you to get things solved,
- 34:55Speaker 5: you have a really special story I want you to
- 34:57Speaker 5: share with the owners or the other owners and the
- 35:00Speaker 5: other pharmacists out there listening. Your experience with outcomes and
- 35:05Speaker 5: the team and RX30, tell us about the story about
- 35:08Speaker 5: what you went through.
- 35:10Speaker 7: It hadn't been great in the past.
- 35:12Speaker 12: I know you guys have been working pretty diligently on
- 35:15Speaker 12: trying to repair that. The last several months, five, six months,
- 35:20Speaker 12: it's been a lot better. Customer service has been a
- 35:23Speaker 12: lot easier to get in touch with. Fourth of July weekend,
- 35:27Speaker 12: I was away. My pharmacist had, we experienced some power outages.
- 35:34Speaker 12: and our server had an issue of some sort, so
- 35:37Speaker 12: we weren't able to fill any prescriptions. We were closed.
- 35:41Speaker 12: Sunday and Monday the 4th. I was contemplating having to
- 35:46Speaker 12: come home early to be there Tuesday morning when we
- 35:49Speaker 12: opened back up and put some fires out. My pharmacist
- 35:53Speaker 12: was able to get in touch with somebody from RX30
- 35:57Speaker 12: on either a Sunday morning or on the actual 4th
- 36:00Speaker 12: of July at 9 o'clock in the morning in an hour.
- 36:03Speaker 3: You guys had the problem fixed for us.
- 36:06Speaker 7: We were ready to go.
- 36:08Speaker 12: You know, I was worried about being closed for a day,
- 36:11Speaker 12: the hecticness of being reopening after a holiday. And you
- 36:15Speaker 12: guys were able to get that taken care of when
- 36:18Speaker 12: I didn't think you'd be able to, to be perfectly
- 36:21Speaker 12: honest with you.
- 36:21Speaker 7: So very appreciative of that.
- 36:24Speaker 3: I'm being able to rely on a team.
- 36:25Speaker 5: Like I said, there's going to be issues.
- 36:28Speaker 3: There's going to be glitches.
- 36:29Speaker 5: But being able to have a customer success manager look
- 36:33Speaker 5: out for the system that you're on, the specificity of
- 36:37Speaker 5: what you're going through, how does that impact profitability?
- 36:41Speaker 12: It allows us to keep filling prescriptions. You know, when
- 36:44Speaker 12: we're down, we can't do anything. So the ability for
- 36:48Speaker 12: you guys to get us back up and running in
- 36:50Speaker 12: that circumstance was huge for us. You know, downtime means
- 36:55Speaker 12: we're not filling prescriptions, which means we're not making money.
- 36:57Speaker 3: All right.
- 36:59Speaker 5: So dispensing is one thing. Being able to generate that
- 37:01Speaker 5: revenue is something. What's happening in your world and communicating
- 37:06Speaker 5: to your community about other services that they can get
- 37:10Speaker 5: in managing their health at your pharmacy?
- 37:12Speaker 3: Is there anything else? Are you doing testing? Are you doing,
- 37:15Speaker 3: you know, there's even contraception.
- 37:17Speaker 5: There's like a whole world of like evolution of independent
- 37:19Speaker 5: community pharmacies.
- 37:20Speaker 12: Well, being down here gives you a lot of different ideas.
- 37:23Speaker 12: I'd like to get back into some medical billing and,
- 37:25Speaker 12: you know, explore.
- 37:26Speaker 7: Some options there.
- 37:27Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 37:29Speaker 12: I know just you guys are rolling out some two-way
- 37:31Speaker 12: communication with our patients. I think some two-way texting is
- 37:35Speaker 12: coming out. You guys are developing that. So, again, just
- 37:38Speaker 12: being there for our patients, being able to respond in
- 37:41Speaker 12: a timely manner to their questions.
- 37:44Speaker 7: You guys are helping us out with that.
- 37:45Speaker 5: Isn't it interesting that the relationship that you have with
- 37:49Speaker 5: your patients is similar to the relationship that you have
- 37:52Speaker 5: with RX-30 in that you're caring for your patients and
- 37:57Speaker 5: your relationship with your patients So that you're digging down
- 38:01Speaker 5: into whatever diagnosis they're dealing with, and then you're helping
- 38:04Speaker 5: with fulfillment. And then RX30 is turning around and really
- 38:07Speaker 5: paying attention to you almost as their patient, as their client.
- 38:10Speaker 5: And I think there's a similarity between those two things.
- 38:13Speaker 6: Right.
- 38:13Speaker 12: As you help us function better, we're able to care
- 38:16Speaker 12: for our patients better.
- 38:16Speaker 7: 100% agree with that.
- 38:18Speaker 5: Christian, thanks for being on the ThoughtSpot 2026 show.
- 38:21Speaker 7: Absolutely. Thank you.
- 38:25Speaker 11: Thank you.