Reduce Complex Drug-Related Safety Events in Your Specialty Pharmacy
Data-driven guidance, tools, and peer support to identify risk, prevent harm, and strengthen medication safety — year-round.
Specialty pharmacy prescriptions now account for roughly 50% of total pharmaceutical spending in developed markets. As high-touch care for complex, high-risk therapies grows, so does the exposure to medication error — and the resources to manage that risk remain scarce.
ISMP's Specialty Pharmacy Membership closes that gap with a comprehensive, data-driven service built specifically to meet the safety and accreditation challenges specialty pharmacies face today.
Proactively Identify and Mitigate Risk
ISMP's extensive library of Specialty Drug Proactive Risk Assessments helps your team identify and mitigate drug-specific risk before it reaches a patient — backed by the ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Specialty Pharmacy to build the safety culture accreditation standards call for.
Stay Ahead of Emerging Safety Issues
Members receive the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® Community/Ambulatory Care newsletter content, delivering the latest information on risk factors in the specialty-medication-use process along with clear, actionable steps to mitigate them — plus guidance resources, tools, and best practices your team can put to work immediately.
Learn from a National Peer Network
Regular user group meetings and a member-driven discussion board connect your team with specialty pharmacy peers across the country — and with ISMP's own medication safety experts — so you're never solving these challenges alone.
50%
of total pharmaceutical spending in developed markets is now driven by specialty pharmacy prescriptions
Why Membership Matters
Risk Reduction, Made Manageable
- Proactively assess drug-specific risk using ISMP's library of Specialty Drug Proactive Risk Assessments — before it becomes patient harm.
- Build a stronger safety culture with the enhanced and interactive Medication Safety Self Assessment® and Just Culture resources that encourage error and near-miss reporting.
- Prioritize risk reduction efforts and document safety improvements using ISMP's newsletter content, action agendas, and safety education.
- Share safety stories and events and meet external reporting accreditation requirements through ISMP's free National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP).
- Strengthen safe-dispensing practices utilizing guidance documents, best practices, and investigation tools.
"Completing the ISMP Specialty Pharmacy Self-Assessment fulfilled a key requirement for our payer contracting. The assessment confirmed that many of the systems, safeguards, and cross-department processes already required through our URAC accreditation were firmly in place. What it revealed was a gap in staff awareness. It showed us where frontline teams needed deeper context on the ‘what,’ ‘why,’ and ‘how’ behind organizational decisions related to process and system initiatives. For organizations without accreditation, this kind of assessment could be transformative in surfacing risks and opportunities they might otherwise miss. Its value also extends beyond specialty pharmacy and can strengthen practice across other areas of pharmacy care."
- Erica L. Winslow PharmD, BCACP, Director of Central Fill and Specialty Pharmacy Operations, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
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