Introduction
NASP 2024 was a flurry of exciting conversations, fresh ideas, and innovative insights from the industry’s best. After an energizing week, our Director of Pharmacy Products and Solutions, Amanda Awe, RPh, shares her thoughts on the biggest takeaways from this year’s event (in superlative style!).
Most likely to resonate with health systems award
Winner: Standardization
Through our market research, we’ve learned how important standardization is across the entire health system. We’ve since continued to validate this idea at every opportunity, and each time it seemed to solidify standardization as VPL Rx’s most compelling value proposition.
When I examine the pharmacy customers who really love our solution the most, it’s the complex and multi-nodular organizations who immediately rise to the surface. This prompted me to come into NASP 2024 with the goal of figuring out the best way to communicate standardization to our prospects so that it really resonates, and NASP did not disappoint in helping with that effort.
Overall, the customers who love us THE MOST love us for the standardization we’re able to provide. After battle testing this idea at this year’s NASP conference, it slayed! Now, our teams are hard at work figuring out our messaging to best showcase this value going forward.
Most competitive market solutions award
Winner: Logistics technology platforms with exclusive partnerships
The competition for logistics solutions at NASP 2024 was strong. Each solution has a significant footprint in niche markets like infusions and cold chain medications. Along with this strong presence comes exclusive partnerships with industry-leading solutions for dispensing, courier networks, cold chain packaging, and more.
What makes these options so attractive are these strategic integrations and the organic opportunities for growth that follow. For example, VPL Rx’s partnership with Cold Chain Technologies integrates cold chain packaging options directly within the pharmacy shipping workflow.
This integration simplifies the decision-making process and streamlines shipping operations, allowing specialty pharmacies to accommodate more volume with less time commitment as they grow. At scale, this integration can also provide recommendations for optimal packaging.
Brightest future award
Winner: VPL Rx
The clear value driver of VPL Rx is its endless configurability. Configurability lends to the standardization that many specialty pharmacies are seeking to meet their current logistics needs and prepare for the future.
Our team recently realized that the value of each VPL Rx module is exponentially compounded when it resides within our overarching platform strategy. Positioning ourselves as a comprehensive platform opens our business to more customers by prioritizing more than just shipping. This has the added benefit of reducing our competitor and integration roadblocks.
To illustrate, when specialty pharmacies partner with VPL Rx, they not only get onboarded with all the features we offer, but we’re also committed to working alongside our customers to develop integrations and capabilities that add up to the most comprehensive solution available on the market.
A health system specialty pharmacy customer recently told us, “I think VPL has really invested in the pharmacy side of things… Having a company that’s not a pharmacy but understands those standards shows that VPL wants to be a partner and they want these pharmacies to be successful.”
In doing so, this builds upon a larger opportunity with standardization by allowing us to answer this question more confidently: How will VPL Rx configure itself to my specific pharmacy business needs?
About VPL Rx
VPL Rx is a clinically minded shipping, tracking, and compliance solution designed to modernize pharmacy distribution and promote healthier patients. Our quicker shipping workflow delivers prescriptions safely with real-time tracking, delivery alerts, and last-mile intervention. Exportable performance reporting and data analytics help pharmacies optimize costs and maintain compliance and accreditation.
