In a MedCity News webinar for Pharmacy Week 2026, pharmacy experts will explain why stewardship should be part of the conversation about hospital cost containment and long-term sustainability.
Among the factors providers consider for antibiotics and opioids are: the type of infection, risk factors, and duration of therapy.
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.
Panelists will also explore how near real-time surveillance, smart risk prioritization, and closed-loop intervention are shifting stewardship programs to proactive, technology-enabled decision-making that lets pharmacists work at the top of their license.
They will also discuss what it means to be a responsible steward of opioids and other strong medications at a hospital in the current healthcare climate.
Among the takeaways from the webinar are:
∎ Explain how stewardship programs contribute to cost containment and health-system resilience.
∎ 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.
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