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OCTOBER 3, 2024

ASHP survey:

Tech Adoption Increasing in Hospital Pharmacies

By Gina Shaw

Hospital pharmacies continue to adopt technology solutions to facilitate safe, accurate and efficient dispensing and management of drugs, according to the 2023 ASHP National Survey of Pharmacy Practice in Hospital Settings: Operations and Technology. This ranges from the near-universal adoption of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) to the growing use of barcode scanning, radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags and workflow management solutions for sterile compounding.

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