The Future of Telepharmacy | Gavel and Pestle Podcast

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" _builder_version="3.0.47" custom_padding="49px|0px|0|0px|false|false"][et_pb_row custom_padding="104px|146px|104px|146px|false|false" background_color_1="rgba(224,153,0,0.66)" _builder_version="3.15" background_image="https://darshantalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ep210.jpg" custom_padding_last_edited="on|tablet" custom_padding_tablet="0px|0px|0px|0px" padding_top_1="22px" padding_right_1="22px" padding_bottom_1="22px" padding_left_1="22px"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_audio audio="https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/505971144-pharmacy-podcast-the-telepharmacy-opportunity.mp3" title="The Future of Telepharmacy" artist_name="Gavel and Pestle" album_name="Pharmacy Podcast Network" image_url="https://darshantalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/logo.jpg" _builder_version="3.15" background_color="rgba(224,153,0,0.53)" box_shadow_style="preset2" custom_padding_last_edited="on|tablet" custom_padding_tablet="|||" custom_margin="|||" max_width_last_edited="on|tablet"] [/et_pb_audio][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.0.48" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_toggle title="Show Transcript" _builder_version="3.15"] Major: Hey guys, my name is Major, this is Darshan and this is the Gavel and Pestle Podcast. Today, we are interviewing Tim Yokana, did I say that right? Tim: Yeah, you got it Major. Major: There we go. We're going to be interviewing Tim about his company Scaled Enterprise Solutions. And Darshan? Darshan: Yeah, so, I'm doing good. Major and I were laughing right before this call 'cause I was doing really really well, I was having a good time, and Major's like "ah, you need to be little bit less excited 'cause it's not sounding... like you need to be awesome," and you know what? I'm really excited about today's talk 'cause it's something I've wanted to talk a little bit more about. I've worked with Tim on this stuff before and I just thought this was great conversation to have on the Gavel and Pestle. Because it's time to talk about telepharmacy. And it's one of those things that sounds futuristic and it sounds like those things you hear about on Star Trek, but it's here, it's happening today. And Tim's doing it. So I asked Tim if he'd be interested in coming on and talking, and he was down for that. So Tim, how are you doing? Everything been good? Tim: I'm doing great Darshan, thank you. I know you're the real busy one where we can't get a hold of you but I really appreciate the fact that you reached out, that you set this up so that we can at least get the conversation going, because I know that, as you mentioned telepharmacy now has kind of been the buzz word and I'm in Illinois and over the past few years, a lot more people are starting to get a little intrigued on what this whole telepharmacy game is. So I'm glad that we're having this conversation to go into a little more detail with it. Darshan: Which begs the obvious question, what is telepharmacy? You want to get us started with that? Tim: What telepharmacy is the concent where a pharmacist doesn't really have to be at the dispensing pharmacy anymore. Back in the days when there was still typewriters and handwritten prescriptions, the pharmacist had to physically be at the dispensing site so that they can make sure that all the orders are correct before it goes out to the patient and the patient gets consulted, etc. etc. Now with the new age of modern technology, in addition to a lot of the things that the larger chains have been doing already for the past couple years, it's kind of created this movement within independent pharmacies where telepharmacy is starting to take it's foothold. [00:03:22]