Mark has over 35 years experience in pharmacy technology and systems. Mark was the founder/CEO of eRx Network a leading electronic prescribing network and pharmacy switch which he sold to Emdeon in 2009. As SVP, Pharmacy Services he managed Emdeon’s pharmacy business from 2009 through 2012. Prior to eRx, Mark founded Zadall Systems, Inc. in 1982, a pharmacy practice management system that became a market leader which was sold to National Data Corporation (NDC) in 1994.
The pandemic shone light on the burdens pharmacists’ face, but if we zoom out, we can understand how COVID was just a milestone on a more than 30-year timeline of industry evolution characterized by historic M&A.
With mounting challenges stacked on top of pharmacists who are already under water, how do we bring the profession back from the precipice? Technology to manage, monitor and master prescription drug inventory.
In looking at parallels between COVID-19 and opioid abuse, two of the country’s most prominent public health emergencies in the last decade, there is a stark and alarming difference in the role data has played in how each crisis has unfolded and been addressed.
