Live Webinar:
October 22, 2026 – 1pm ET / 10am PT
Antibiotic and opioid stewardship teams are being squeezed from every direction: rising regulatory pressure, accelerating resistance trends, and staffing shortages that make manual chart review impossible to keep up with.
In this MedCity News webinar for Pharmacy Week 2026, pharmacy experts will explain why stewardship belongs in conversations about hospital cost containment and long-term sustainability. They’ll also explore how near real-time surveillance, smart risk prioritization, and closed-loop intervention are shifting stewardship programs from retrospective review to proactive, technology-enabled decision-making that lets pharmacists work at the top of their license.
Panelists include Martha Tran, Pharm.D., Senior Director of Customer Operations at Inovalon, and Josh Caraccio, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP, Principal Implementation Engineer at Inovalon. Arundhati Parmar, Editor-in-Chief of MedCity News, will moderate.
By attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
∎ Explain how stewardship programs contribute to cost containment and health-system resilience, beyond meeting compliance requirements.
∎ Identify the technology shift underway in stewardship programs from retrospective, dashboard-driven review to near real-time surveillance, smart risk prioritization, and closed-loop action.
∎ Recognize the shared playbook between antibiotic and opioid stewardship, and evaluate how surveillance, prioritization, and intervention workflows can be applied across both programs to reduce manual burden and free up pharmacist time.
Register here to reserve your spot.