Pharmacy Transformation

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Pharmacy Transformation

• Changing Practices/Challenges

COL Isiah M. Harper Jr. Army Pharmacy Consultant
and Pharmacy Program
7-11 January 2007
UNCLASSIFIED
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BRIEFING OUTLINE
PURPOSE To provide information how pharmacy
transformation impacts the Military Treatment
Facilities (MTFs).

• Pharmacy In the Past
• Pharmacy Today
• Issues impacting Pharmacy
• Conclusion
• Question

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Pharmacy In the Past
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Pharmacy Formulary
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Impact

• Slower process
• Increase in errors
• Requires more people (?)
• One formulary
• Fenced budget

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Pharmacy Yesterday and Today
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Outpatient Robot
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Outpatient Baker Cells
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Outpatient Accumed
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FlexRx
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IMPACT

• Reduction in errors
• Better utilization of pharmacists
• Mail Order Pharmacy Program

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The Challenge

• Pharmacy Technicians Role
• Pharmacists Role
• Command Thinking
• Dual Formulary

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Two Formulary Systems

• Local Formulary System
• DoD Formulary System
• Savings
• Strain on the MTF
• Two Formularies increases rate of Non-Formulary
  Items
• Policy Challenges

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CONCLUSION

• If its not broken, break it and make it better,
  or someone else will! Isiah M. Harper Jr.