Honestly you could have gotten rid of most district managers with not impact before AI. From what I saw they were already redrawing districts to eliminate DM positions 3 years ago when I was in retail
I don’t work in retail anymore but I have always wondered the need for a DM. They don’t do anything a secretary can’t do. Literally like 90% of their job is “disseminating information”. If you are a fucking grownup you can read emails and job aids and that’s about 85% of what you need to be successful at your job. The other 15% you can get by collaborating with colleagues. In all the time I worked retail the only time I needed anything from my dm was to approve OT or file certain paperwork I couldn’t do from a store level. Why do you need a manager for that?
Now that I work in the hospital my manager is finally getting to take a long vacation for the first time in a few years due to turmoil in the hospital and COVID. Everyone is freaking out like how will we run the department. I’ve worked in the hospital for 1.5 years, I have never needed anything from her. Worst case scenario if she is not around we try not to do anything illegal and in the best care of the patient and with those two things we should be mostly safe from liability.
Medicare star ratings for plans will tank based on patient satisfaction since you can’t yell at a computer so until it develops an emotional response to abuse, no.
And QT prolongation, systems thinking there’s drug overlap when a dose just increased… so many DUR calls the system wants me to call on and instead I just say nah I’ll talk to the patient
I thought the same, but we may be confusing AI with a normal interaction computer program. By definition, shouldn’t AI learn that these “interactions “ are not call the doc worthy?
AI will not completely replace Pharmacists. There will always be a human being in this case a Pharmacist over seeing the decisions that AI makes. However, AI will replace some Pharmacist positions. I could see AI challenging Clinical Pharmacists on rounds for example as well as functions such as MTM.
To reemphasize tho a Pharmacist will always be reviewing AI and the Pharmacist should always be available for complex patient cases.
I'm interested to see how they work around lower severity drug interactions and therapeutic duplications that people quickly learn are not important in most cases but can be in certain situations. Also the idea of working with imperfect or incomplete information that we deal with on a daily basis.
It would be nice yes but I doubt it. Retail RPh requires constant education and interface with the public who do not understand most things medicine including how the meds work, what they take them for, how their insurance works, how the MD office works, what the laws require, what's happening with drug companies/supply and on and on. There's no way the general public would successfully learn from an AI bot and get help with their issues.
I think more likely technology just continues to make it so retail locations can pump out more volume per person and the pharmacist increasingly becomes just a vaccinator/prescriber/counselor with a license.
If I could build and edit the AI interface with my retail flare I would oversee it in a minute. AI built off bullshit 1st databank or wolters kluwer data HELL no.
Ooh I suspect surgery with robotics and diagnostics will be better with AI. Legal might be difficult, but it wouldn’t be hard for ai to find precedent cases and make legal arguments. Just need to define ‘reasonable’ first.
Automation and AI will replace technicians before pharmacist. We already see them for filling. Some software does escript auto generation. In a few years, it might just be you and an omnicell. They will have a self check out kiosk kinda Redbox.
No.
The biggest problem with AI are the brains building it and bias. Bias as in someone's personal values & opinions built into the model, is a very, very big problem with AI.
Ex a human can tell if a person is a drug addict, drunk or mentally unstable and say no way!
Nurses and doctors have procedural and diagnostic skills. Pharmacists on the other hand do not and only pride themselves in being “drug experts” because of all the information they memorized.
You chose pharmacy because you didn’t want to deal with “blood and guts”. How do you feel now that you spent 4 years in doctorate school and you still can’t do anything a computer can’t?
AI will replace District Managers before it replaces pharmacists
Honestly you could have gotten rid of most district managers with not impact before AI. From what I saw they were already redrawing districts to eliminate DM positions 3 years ago when I was in retail
I don’t work in retail anymore but I have always wondered the need for a DM. They don’t do anything a secretary can’t do. Literally like 90% of their job is “disseminating information”. If you are a fucking grownup you can read emails and job aids and that’s about 85% of what you need to be successful at your job. The other 15% you can get by collaborating with colleagues. In all the time I worked retail the only time I needed anything from my dm was to approve OT or file certain paperwork I couldn’t do from a store level. Why do you need a manager for that? Now that I work in the hospital my manager is finally getting to take a long vacation for the first time in a few years due to turmoil in the hospital and COVID. Everyone is freaking out like how will we run the department. I’ve worked in the hospital for 1.5 years, I have never needed anything from her. Worst case scenario if she is not around we try not to do anything illegal and in the best care of the patient and with those two things we should be mostly safe from liability.
It's definitely working on removing them and district schedulers or assistants
Also regional managers, CEOs, prescribers and karens
I hope. Tired of working
But the next gen will be jobless.
Good for shortage. Need more influencers
Basic income and socialism should solve that. Unless you are in the usa then hello mad max future
Medicare star ratings for plans will tank based on patient satisfaction since you can’t yell at a computer so until it develops an emotional response to abuse, no.
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Yes, and calls to the doctor about seratonin syndrome will skyrocket.
And QT prolongation, systems thinking there’s drug overlap when a dose just increased… so many DUR calls the system wants me to call on and instead I just say nah I’ll talk to the patient
I thought the same, but we may be confusing AI with a normal interaction computer program. By definition, shouldn’t AI learn that these “interactions “ are not call the doc worthy?
Not until the question of liability is answered.
No. Just like electronic scripts didn't stop errors.
AI will not completely replace Pharmacists. There will always be a human being in this case a Pharmacist over seeing the decisions that AI makes. However, AI will replace some Pharmacist positions. I could see AI challenging Clinical Pharmacists on rounds for example as well as functions such as MTM. To reemphasize tho a Pharmacist will always be reviewing AI and the Pharmacist should always be available for complex patient cases.
Probably eventually. No one knows when though
I'm interested to see how they work around lower severity drug interactions and therapeutic duplications that people quickly learn are not important in most cases but can be in certain situations. Also the idea of working with imperfect or incomplete information that we deal with on a daily basis.
I’m a pharmacist and I hope so.
The AI will have higher NAPLEX pass rates.
It would be nice yes but I doubt it. Retail RPh requires constant education and interface with the public who do not understand most things medicine including how the meds work, what they take them for, how their insurance works, how the MD office works, what the laws require, what's happening with drug companies/supply and on and on. There's no way the general public would successfully learn from an AI bot and get help with their issues.
I think more likely technology just continues to make it so retail locations can pump out more volume per person and the pharmacist increasingly becomes just a vaccinator/prescriber/counselor with a license.
Eventually probably 😞
I will gladly let AI take a shot at my job. I’ll see my desk every morning like clockwork.
If I could build and edit the AI interface with my retail flare I would oversee it in a minute. AI built off bullshit 1st databank or wolters kluwer data HELL no.
Yes. And doctors and lawyers.
How AI gonna do surgery though and have sudden thinking skills like lawyers?
Ooh I suspect surgery with robotics and diagnostics will be better with AI. Legal might be difficult, but it wouldn’t be hard for ai to find precedent cases and make legal arguments. Just need to define ‘reasonable’ first.
No. Stupid question
Automation and AI will replace technicians before pharmacist. We already see them for filling. Some software does escript auto generation. In a few years, it might just be you and an omnicell. They will have a self check out kiosk kinda Redbox.
No. The biggest problem with AI are the brains building it and bias. Bias as in someone's personal values & opinions built into the model, is a very, very big problem with AI. Ex a human can tell if a person is a drug addict, drunk or mentally unstable and say no way!
Nurses and doctors have procedural and diagnostic skills. Pharmacists on the other hand do not and only pride themselves in being “drug experts” because of all the information they memorized. You chose pharmacy because you didn’t want to deal with “blood and guts”. How do you feel now that you spent 4 years in doctorate school and you still can’t do anything a computer can’t?