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Tom Birkness

Tom Birkness

Tom (Thomas) Birkness, Pharm.D., is Director of Clinical Services at National Pharmacy, a Canadian long-term care pharmacy.

Sep 23, 2026

DanHOST
0:52
So tell me a bit about what you have for that technology and how that works.
0:57
Yeah, so since we're doing so many prescriptions for so many people, we use a packing machine that actually puts the medications into these little plastic pouches.
1:07
So you remember in the old days, you used to go to the corner store and they'd have a strip of suckers in those little plastic.
1:12
Oh, yes, yes.
1:13
It's kind of like that.
1:15
So you get a strip for every resident that lasts for a week and it has all their medications in there and every pouch is for a different time of day and it lists the medications on them and whatnot.
1:26
So it's a lot easier for the staff to take them out and give them to the right person.
DanHOST
2:26
Are they getting the right medication and so on? Like, how does that work?

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