Listen to this episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, where host Scott Carpenter, EVBC talks with Noel Fosbery, Director, EasyDose Dispensing Solutions and Max Mito, Co-Founder / CEO at StrongRoom AI. While EasyDose is a program for pharmacies providing Opioid Replacement Pharmacotherapy Solutions, StrongRoom AI is an Artificial Intelligence-driven controlled drugs management platform aimed at reducing adverse drug events within the Pharmacy, Hospital and Aged Care Facility settings. And in this episode, they talk about the collaboration of the two.

Noel is a WA Pharmacist and Proprietor at Advantage Pharmacy (Falcon, High Wycombe and Morley) and in 2016, his service was recognised as WA & Australian Pharmacist of the Year! With his motto of ‘Do it right, do it once’, Noel, who is also a keen early adopter of technology, looks forward to merging his experience with the technology that Max and his team at StrongRoom AI bring. Having started a decade ago, EasyDose has come a long way, however along that journey Noel and his partners realised they had limited resources that in the long run, could affect customers and limit technological progression so after significant research have decided to now partner with StrongRoom AI.

The key to successfully accelerating the product roadmap and building a more robust system, Max says, is collaboration. While StrongRoom AI has expertise on the technological front, Max adds, Noel and his team come with years and years of actual experience in the field. Max believes that in the future their collaboration would help them all:

- Keep building new and better products

- Keep adding value for the customers

Noel also stresses the importance of collaboration and is excited by the possibilities because he believes StrongRoom AI’s team comes with a fresh outlook to innovation that many Pharmacists don’t even think as being possible and are also open to providing information and advice from those who work on the ground. He furthers that the future of the Pharmaceutical industry depends on software as evidenced over the last two years.

In this episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, host Scott Carpenter, EVBC and guest Bruce Hultgren talk about the correlation between productivity and an individual’s wellbeing. Bruce is the Founder and CEO of theGOYA.life, a world-class app that guarantees improvement in staff wellbeing and productivity.

Bruce is a former NBL basketballer and has worked for several decades as a coach and educator. He wanted to develop software that he wished he had as an athlete and a coach. He put years into researching best practices that could be included in the app and also drew inspiration from his own experience. The result of all that was the world’s first wellbeing app: theGOYA.life!

Bruce believes that a person’s wellbeing stems from mindset as much as it does from being physically fit. That’s why the app addresses the following questions:

• Do I belong?

• Does someone care?

In fact, these were the questions that Bruce asked himself as a 17-year-old when he thought that he would not see the next day and having overcome that personal challenge wanted to stop other people from falling into the same dark hole. The app he created ensures that

• An individual has access to a community of people in a bully-free zone where they can choose to let people know how they are feeling on any given day

• An individual has access to what he/she needs 24*7 so that they know that someone’s got their back

In this episode of Pharmacy View Podcast, host Scott Carpenter, EVBC is joined by Kev Ryan, Lead Advisor at pharmacy.forsale, a platform that facilitates the listing and selling of pharmacies globally, without any involvement of brokers and payments of commissions. The platform acts for buyers who can connect with sellers in a private and off-market fashion via its member-only marketplace.

Kev is a tax accountant by trade and over his career, he has worked all across Australia. Talking about the platform, he talks of how he thought of it as being an interesting space after having interacted with his accounting friends with predominantly Pharmacy clients and after having watched Pharmacy transactions from afar. He adds that he is new to the industry and seeing it with fresh eyes made him realise the need for a marketplace that would cater to both sellers and buyers without having to depend on a broker. For that reason, his goal was to build an industry specific technology platform to help people transact. He calls it a tool to engage the buy side clients because the sell side is already well represented in the market.

Kev emphasises that the key target audience are the young Pharmacists who otherwise don’t have access to the deal flow. The baton needs to be passed from the older and wiser Pharmacists to the younger ones, he believes, as that would help community Pharmacies survive in the future while the threat of bigger groups monopolizing the industry loom large. That doesn’t take away from the fact that the platform is meant for anyone who is genuinely interested in making a deal.

In this episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, host Scott Carpenter, is joined by Alex Ferguson, CFO / COO at Evolt IOH, a technology driven health and wellness company that is powering connected and digital health. Listen in as the two talk about this end-to-end digital solution that takes an evidence-based approach to its development and practical usage.

Alex started out as a Chartered Accountant and worked in the financial industry in London UK and Canada for over half a decade before making his way back home to Australia. He’s now the CFO/COO of Evolt IOH and the work, he says, has allowed him to understand how technology can make a huge impact in the health segment. Alex further explains how they use validated Bio Impedance Technology to assess a whole bunch of benchmarks and use that data to help the customers.

Even though the company initially and mostly focused on gyms, they work across numerous verticals really—from the corporates to the government, from pharmacies to allied health. The key, he says, is to use the technology and the data thus produced to not only keep members engaged but also honest to their needs.

Alex believes that the technology offers limitless opportunities when it comes to working with Pharmacies, not just in Australia but across the world. He uses the case of supplements to further his point. In its result sheet, the technology collects a whole bunch of data and after having cross analysed that with customer’s body composition and the goals they have, recommends training or nutrition program—also supplements that the Pharmacies can sell.

This episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, host Scott Carpenter, EVBC is joined by Jess Ly and Eric Moschietto-Fransa and they talk about PharmX, the most extensive network of community Pharmacies and suppliers throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Jess was a full-time Community Pharmacist before she found joy in the digital health field. Still a Community Pharmacist, she is the Customer and Marketing lead at PharmX. Likewise, Eric has worked in Australia for the last 22 years with many organizations, suppliers and market leaders. He finds that technological improvements have made the Pharmaceutical industry exciting when it comes to work.

Delving more into PharmX, Eric talks about how it was created in 2005 in order to solve a particular problem that existed in the industry. Fragmented trade is a nature of Pharmacy industry in Australia, he adds, where there are 5000 Pharmacies with myriad POS solutions and there are also wholesalers and direct suppliers with their own solutions. The problem, he highlights, is the lack of a connectivity partner that can help all those parties connect with each other. PharmX was created on the premise of solving that problem.

Listen to this episode of Pharmacy View Podcast where host Scott Carpenter sits with Pharmacist Mark Feldschuh to learn more about Mark’s journey in the Pharmaceutical industry.

Having owned a Pharmacy for over three decades, Mark is passionate about the industry. Over the course of time, Mark learned from a whole lot from people: from attending conferences to hearing people talk about new ideas—learning was everywhere. As advocacy and professional development have also always been areas of interest, Mark worked towards bringing betterment in those regards and really wanted to give back in the same way. Mark now helps business owners develop their own pharmacies.

Mark emphasizes the need for the following in any Pharmacy:

1. Systems

A key requisite that Mark champions is the need for using systems. He says that once systemization is in place, it becomes easier to manage Pharmacies.

2. Patient’s Interest

Another key element is to ensure that the Pharmacy is serving the patient’s best interests.

This episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast features a wonderful conversation between host Scott Carpenter, EVBC and guest Norman Thurecht, Partner, Pitcher Partners. Pitcher Partners is an association of independent full-service accounting, audit and advisory firms with advisory experts from accounting and business sharing insights about issues impacting family-controlled and privately owned businesses, high net-worth individuals, the public sector and NFP organisations. Listen in as in this episode, Scott and Norman delve on the outcomes of analysing data and exploring possibilities utilizing technology in the Pharmaceutical industry.

An accountant by trade, Norman developed an interest in Pharmacy in early 2000s. He recounts having used systems and process both within the business and for the clients for the past 20-25 years with the goal of creating benchmarks for clients and the industry as a whole by consolidating data from the proprietary systems. He adds that cloud-based services have been used by the company to consolidate data on need identified basis and to give that back to the Pharmacists as quality information. That said, Norman understands that Pharmacies have idiosyncrasies and because everyone wants to operate business in their own fashion and have control over the outcome, their reports allow for that.

He further goes on to talk about the need for balance of the businesses within a core business. Taking packaging facility as an example, he breaks down the nitty-gritties of looking at such ‘business within the business’ as a separate entity and being able to justify the need for the same. The goal, he emphasizes, is to drive efficiency. Pharmacists that are traders and are good at merchandizing and marketing do really well in those regards, he adds. As the core for any Pharmacy is health, Norman says that there’s an increased need to cater to the numbers around health and not elsewhere.

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This episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, features Julian Sallabank, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Corum Group Australia alongside host Scott Carpenter, EVBC. Take a listen as the two of them talk about Julian’s eventful career, how the Australian Pharmaceutical Market sits on a bed of opportunities, and how technology can be leveraged to leapfrog into the future that is ultimately beneficial to the end users.

Julian believes that Australia at large is a great place for innovation in Pharmacy and even though there weren’t many changes in the industry for a decade or two prior to COVID, Julian is amazed at how quickly things have materialized since the onset of COVID over the past two years. He acknowledges Australian government’s support and feels that the future holds much promise in terms of technological advancements in the industry.

In this episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast, host Scott Carpenter, EVBC is joined by Tracee Blythe, Advisor and Educator at Tracee Blythe Consulting. An experienced naturopath and a leader in the complementary medicine industry, Tracee, talks about her running a diverse business with a simple mission: to improve the health of everyone in the community.

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This episode of the Pharmacy View Podcast features Pharmacist Nader Mitri, General Manager PharmaPrograms. Listen in as host Scott Carpenter, EVBC and Nader talk about the evolution of technology used in Pharmacies and what the future holds for PharmaPrograms helping patients receive more value from their Health journey.

Having spent 18 years in the Pharmacy industry, 10 years as a business owner of three Pharmacies, Nader is driven by passion when it comes to his work. When it felt like he was a little burnt out and needed to spend more time with his family, he sold his Pharmacies to start working with PharmaPrograms for a better work/life balance—no keeping him away from what he knows and likes!

Talking about PharmaPrograms, Nadir shares how the current programs are run across 5.400 community pharmacies which participate in at least one of each of these programs. Adding on, he says since its initiation, they have paid over 37 million dollars to community pharmacies in revenue for their support. The programs, which could either be primary product or health condition focused, he furthers, are privately funded by the manufacturers. There’s no cost that pharmacies need to pay to enrol in the programs and their policy ensures that all kinds of pharmacies from community to hospital pharmacies, from PBS to Non-PBS to compounding pharmacies have access to the programs.