A lot of docs I know are prescribing GLP1s already for weight loss, off label. When they get RCT data, get coverage, you guys will be way ahead. Congrats, amazing concept.
Yes, but most don’t seem to mind. There are so many other high ROI things for clinical pharmacists to do instead. Most want to round more or spend more time with patients instead .
The clinical pharmacist has so much to do, they’re like Swiss Army knives. Systems that take us on don’t fire anyone to do so; this just frees up their clinical folks to do more patient care duties. So, yes, we want to grow through them !
Yes! But shouldn’t it be central? There are hundreds of thousands of clinical pharmacists answering similar questions every day. To your point- everyone asks unique questions so still get unique answers that they can then combine with patient- specific preferences to make personal decisions.
Clinical pharmacists at every hospital have been key. Many docs prefer to still rely on their clinical pharmacist, which is fine because they (the clinical pharmacists) end up relying on us. Over time, it’s become simpler for many docs to just ask us themselves.
Also, a newsfeed with common/ interesting questions has really helped since the experience gets better with more users.
Excellent questions and thank you for the kind words :-)
1. We tested this with Pfizer last year and found there was an opportunity to supplement existing med info teams that do the same thing.
But it’s tough to do two markets well at once, so we decided to focus on health systems for now.
We also find that in hospitals, everyone thinks they’re asking b unique questions, but they aren’t. We can be much cheaper vs their pharmacists and still make money. Pharma companies already have standard responses so it’s a totally different value prop.
2. We don’t really compete with clinical folks at hospitals, most will readily off load this to us, so they can spend more time on patient care. There are some that like to own this, and I totally get why, but we eventually win them over. As for medical librarians, they’re great for article requests but for complex clinical questions we think a clinical pharmacist is the right type of researcher.
Same problem, for sure, but we’re taking a different approach.
A SAAS tool has a hard time with complex questions because healthcare data is messy and results will be imperfect.
Therefore we feel strongly about building a human - lead service thats optimized by software.
Every health system employs clinical pharmacists to manually do this today, so we use that as our stake in the ground, and so far we’re finding we’re way more efficient.
Great info, and a shame there’s not better real world evidence for cases like this. And I hear you, just making the point that most shouldn't be considered “typical”; we should question everything.