Building on our Q4 2025 update, welcome to the first quarter review of 2026 tracking the evolution of artificial intelligence through the lens of Pharmacy General Intelligence (PGI). As a reminder, PGI focuses on AI's potential to perform at or beyond the level of a pharmacist, paving the way...
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Last Thursday (3/5/2026), The FDA published its final rule on revising the National Drug Format and Drug Label Barcode Requirements . Last September I published an analysis of the impact of this change . I did not expect the change to be formalized this quickly. I should note one error in...
On January 6, 2026, Eli Lilly and Nvidia announced collaboration for an innovation lab for drug discovery . Mon Monday, March 2, 2026, Keith Kohl, a publisher on technology markets and investing, announced on Monday that the AI system had been built and went live this week. I won't quote it...
Mentorship has consistently been at the heart of my professional journey, forming the foundation of who I am as I prepare to enter the pharmacy profession in just a few short months. Throughout my training, mentors showed up for me in ways that went far beyond academic guidance. They saw my...
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I have recently spent some time in the Hazardous Drug space and have encountered another instance in which it seems to me that we pretend to achieve levels of precision which seem unlikely. Specifically, I have looked at dosing per square meter of Body Surface Area (BSA). There is a BSA...
When we were in pharmacy school the perils of a medication error were drilled into our head. We are taught that it is the role of the pharmacist to catch these errors and prevent them from getting to the patient. We are trained to be meticulous in everything we do; we are trained to be...
From Former CEO Paul W. Abramowitz Pharm.D., Sc.D. (Hon.), FASHP
Pharmacy General Intelligence: Q4 2025 Update Welcome to the last update for 2025 tracking the evolution of AI through the lens of Pharmacy General Intelligence (PGI). As a reminder, PGI focuses specifically on AI's potential to perform at or beyond the level of a pharmacist,...
One of the more interesting technologies on display in the MCM exhibit hall was a compounding system for personalized medication doses that looked a lot like a 3-D printer but was not. Rather, it consumes a mixture of drug and compounding base and extrudes the required amount of the mixture into...