Illuminations

Shedding light on hospice pharmacy.

Perspectives on the technology gaps, the misaligned incentives, and what moving forward actually looks like.

Modern Technology·May 28, 2026

When Your Systems Don't Speak the Same Language

Hospice pharmacy runs across three systems that were never designed to talk to each other in clinically useful detail. The translation gap is being closed by hand, by the coordinator, every day.

Pharmacy Partnerships·May 15, 2026

The Local Pharmacy Is a Hospice Care Team Member. Your Technology Should Treat It That Way.

The local pharmacy is doing care team work whether the org chart calls it that. Whether your hospice's workflows are making it easier or harder is a tooling question.

Pharmacy Partnerships·April 28, 2026

Hospice Pharmacy's Hidden Conflict: When Your PBM Owns the Pharmacy

Most hospice operators have never been asked whether their PBM owns the pharmacy filling their patients' prescriptions. Here's how that conflict works, and what the FTC and Arkansas have started to say about it.

Clinical Decision Support·April 14, 2026

Every Rejection Started as a Missing Answer

Pharmacy rejections aren't a billing problem. They're an information problem. The data that would prevent most of them already exists, just not where the prescribing decision is being made.

Modern Technology·April 7, 2026

Hospice Pharmacy Is Stuck in 2015. Here's What Moving Forward Looks Like.

The hospice pharmacy industry has stagnated — not because better technology doesn't exist, but because the vendors serving it have had no reason to change. It's time to expect more.

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