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JULY 2, 2025

Progress Toward the ‘Autonomous Pharmacy’: How’s It Going?

By Gina Shaw
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Jeff Wagner, PharmD

Four years after a group of industry leaders published an ambitious call for U.S. health systems to move toward an Autonomous Pharmacy Framework, with complete process automation and data visibility allowing pharmacists to realize the full scope of their role in clinical care (Am J Health Syst Pharm 2021;78[7]:636-645), a survey assessing progress toward that goal reveals there is still substantial work to be done.

“We asked questions across the five core