Despite decades of awareness and mitigation efforts, drug shortages continue to disrupt pharmacy operations and threaten patient safety across every care setting. From cost and complexity to a fragile supply chain with quality concerns, many challenges persist within the pharmaceutical industry that allow for drug shortage issues.
“I think we could look at the main drivers of drug shortages and understand that these are difficult issues to solve, and they go outside of what might be within the control of any type of pharmacy leader in any care setting,” Lani Bertrand, senior director of clinical marketing & thought leadership at Omnicell, told Drug Topics. “The main drivers are low price or low cost of the drugs that are on shortage, manufacturer complexity, geographic concentration, and lastly, quality concerns.” Read More >
