Identify Inventory Management Improvements with RFID (Part 2)

• February 2025
• Ann McKinstry, RPh

Pharmacy Purchasing & Products: How does Rady Children’s Health utilize RFID technology? Ann McKinstry, RPh: Our facility was an RFID pilot site for 2.5 years. Throughout that time, we worked to refine general standard operating procedures (SOPs) in order to best tailor these processes to our facility. Now, RFID is utilized to track medication usage and inventory data related to anesthesia... Read more

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Compounding - Certification Services

• January 2025 : Resource Guide 2025

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Compounding - Compounding Supplies

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Compounding - USP Training Programs

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Technician–Led Centralized Diversion Program

• January 2025
• Amanda Wollitz, PharmD, BCPS, BCSCP, FISMP, FASHP
• Heath Jennings, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, FACHE
• Austin Kucher, CPhT

Underscoring the fact that diversion is an ongoing and widespread problem, it is estimated that one in every 100 healthcare workers divert medications.1 In 2022, ASHP published revisions to their Guidelines on Preventing Diversion of Controlled Substances describing a comprehensive controlled substances diversion prevention program that includes organizational oversight and accountability as a core... Read more

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