
Tom Birkness
Tom (Thomas) Birkness, Pharm.D., is Director of Clinical Services at National Pharmacy, a Canadian long-term care pharmacy.
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Sep 23, 2026
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0:52DanHOST
So tell me a bit about what you have for that technology and how that works.

Tom BirknessGUEST
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.

Tom BirknessGUEST
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.

Tom BirknessGUEST
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.

Tom BirknessGUEST
So it's a lot easier for the staff to take them out and give them to the right person.
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2:26DanHOST
Are they getting the right medication and so on? Like, how does that work?