We are pleased to again bring you Visante’s Top 10 issues in pharmacy for 2023.  For 2022 our Top 10 items (Pharmacy Org Structure, 340B Program, Vertical Integration & Marketplace Restrictions, Drug Prices & Supply Chain, Infusion Services, Drug Shortages, Pandemic, Economy, Election, Social Justice) all turned out to be very relevant and many of these items again made the list for 2023.

To say that 2022 was turbulent would be a significant understatement!  With the pandemic, economy, election and social justice issues driving national concerns, including pharmacy, coupled with the more pharmacy-specific elements it was an extremely challenging year for pharmacy and healthcare in general.  However, despite the magnitude of the challenges we observed pharmacy programs all over the country stepping up and meeting these challenges head-on. Pharmacy programs demonstrated innovation, creativity, commitment to purpose, and a tremendous work ethic in supporting their patients and their organizations and should be justifiably proud of their work in 2022. 

It was an honor and privilege to be able to work alongside so many great colleagues to help with the advancement of their pharmacy programs and to address the many challenges and we sincerely thank you all for the opportunity. We look forward to again supporting the advancement of high-performance pharmacy for 2023.

— Jim Jorgenson