The Impact of Digital Technology on Pharmacy - Interview with Harry Travis

In this episode we speak with the President and CEO of EtectRX about the impact of digital technologies on the practice of pharmacy and the next wave of digital ingestible pills.  Learn more about EtectRX, the FDA Cleared ingestible capsule improving medication adherence.  Explore how these new technologies will be adopted and transform the future of pharmacy.Harry J. Travis is a senior healthcare executive with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of pharmaceutical distribution channel management. This includes multibillion-dollar specialty and non-specialty pharmacy operations, health plan pharmacy benefit design and pharmaceutical wholesale operations. Currently, Mr. Travis is the President and CEO of etectRx, Inc. etectRx has developed an innovative digital pill system that incorporates a tiny ingestible sensor into a capsule, which transmits a signal to a wearable reader and then to a smartphone-based app and secure cloud-based server to reliably and safely indicate when a patient has taken their medicine.Interested in learning more about provider status and how the pharmacy profession is changing? Visit The American Pharmacy Association: https://www.pharmacist.com/Learn more about EtectRX: https://etectrx.com/Connect with Harry Travis on LinkedIn and Twitter:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hjtravishttps://twitter.com/hjtravis

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Who Would Have Thought is a podcast about digital health innovation, what we know now and what we have yet to discover about the rapid digital innovation happening around healthcare. Twenty years ago, who would have thought that so many people would have smartphones? Twenty years from now, what will the new “Who Would Have Thought” questions become. What digital technologies will significantly transform healthcare and what will it look like? What will we know then that we don’t know now about the way healthcare is delivered for more effective outcomes. Digital technology has certainly brought many changes in the quality of our lifestyle and we are starting to see it in healthcare. What are the challenges that patients and physicians face now and what are the changes needed for better outcomes? Discover the perspectives of digital health thought leaders today and inquire into digital technologies of tomorrow. This is a conversation to discover the future of digital health that impacts us all.