Understanding the problem of digital medication inventory visibility in health systems.

Purpose: This project describes and quantifies the perceived degree of digital visibility to medication inventory throughout 6 large health systems.

Methods: In this project, 6 large health systems evaluated their physical medication inventory for digital visibility, or the degree to which physical medication inventory information is viewable in electronic systems, during a 2-year period (2019-2020). Inventory reports included medication items with either a National Drug Code (NDC) or a unique institutional identifier.

Implementation of a high-impact medication therapy subcommittee within a large academic medical center.

Purpose: Healthcare systems are challenged with implementing high-cost, high-impact medication therapies with increasing frequency. Pharmacy & therapeutics (P&T) committees may struggle to integrate requests for these medications into their existing formulary review process. This article describes one large academic medical center's experience with creating a new P&T subcommittee that addresses the clinical, operational, and financial challenges these medications present.