-: My name is Ed McKinley and
I am currently a partner in a
Pharmacy and Healthcare related consultancy company.
We specialize in identifying best business practices,
ensuring best business practices.
Doing GAP analysis in stores.
We work with independent pharmacies,
regional chains.
We work with sterile and non-sterile compounders.
We work with companies that are in the
pharmacy space.
Healthcare companies such as technology companies.
I work with distributors.
We have a broad client base and our strengths
in our company is our operational expertise and
our regulatory backgrounds.
One of my longest term clients,
is someone who initially we started out with
a broad scope of work and
that scope of work was really how
could he take his band of independent pharmacies and
how could we make them look like a chain?
It was about centralizing services.
It was how they would position themselves
in procurement and
he followed all the steps that were
laid out in his plan so that client
having attained success,
the workload went down but
I'm still on a retainer with that client and
I said things are constantly changing in pharmacy.
A new issue has arisen so now I'm working
on a specific project for him but
I helped him put people in place to
make his organization successful.
It's very rewarding.
What I do.
It's also very challenging.
Keeps me on my toes 'cause there's always
new things that are coming in pharmacy.
Regulation can not keep up with the technology.
One of my challenges,
I have two clients right now that have
want to implement patient centered technology.
There aren't regulations that address it specifically.
So they're looking for pathways of how
they can introduce these patient centered technologies.
Part of it is helping to find solutions
and being creative.