Schedule.

Registration / Cyber Stations

First-Timers’ Orientation

Kick-Off Party

Join your peers as they celebrate the start of the Regional Chain Conference and enjoy the big game!

Breakfast

Registration / Cyber Stations

Opening General Session

Hear the latest developments in pharmacy and retail trends from NACDS leadership.

NACDS on Your Side

This session is designed to provide timely and relevant information to adapt and manage today's community pharmacy and retail marketplace.

Refreshment Break

From Volume to Value: Implementing Change in our Healthcare System

This session provides an overview of value-based pharmacy services, including ongoing evaluation projects and strategic insights into building out such programs in regional chain pharmacies. Learn more about the exciting potential of these emerging, modernized payment structures.

Refreshment Break

The Future of Supply Chain Compliance for Pharmacies

This session focuses on the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, which outlines steps to build an electronic, interoperable system to identify and trace certain prescription drugs as they are distributed, and what pharmacies need to consider for compliance.

Q & A: Value-Based Care

This session is an opportunity for a small group discussion as a follow-up to the General Session. Join in for further discussion on value-based payment models and specific expectations for pharmacy.

Lunch

Pharmaceutical Trends, Issues and Forecasts

Programming designed to provide timely and relevant information enabling attendees to adapt and manage today's community pharmacy.

Destination Retailing: Getting the Customer Off Their Couch and Into Your Store

People always have—and always will—desire physical, sensory experiences, and the human connections that only brick and mortar stores can provide. But today's ‘born again shopper’ has an entirely new set of expectations. Your brand has to be more than a promise—it has to be an experience that stands apart uniquely. This session will explore what shoppers secretly crave, the 7 necessary steps to give it to them, and how to use them effectively to make your store a happy habit.

Refreshment Break

Improve Patient Care, Improve Your Business – An Example of a Pay-for-Performance Model

While traditional pharmacy payment models do little to incentivize optimized medication therapy and improved patient outcomes, new payment models look to close that gap. This session will highlight an exemplary payment model focused on high-priority patient care initiatives, which deploy health plan partnership, technology, and high-touch patient interactions.

Q & A: Pharmaceutical Trends, Issues, and Forecasts - Part II

This session is an opportunity for a small group discussion as a follow-up to the General Session. Join in for further discussion on the most up-to-date data that inform industry forecasts, and directly impact the community pharmacy sector.

NACDS Reception

Breakfast

Registration / Cyber Stations

Winning in Tomorrow's Retail

In the coming decade a number of high-impact, highly unpredictable forces have the potential to reshape US healthcare market. What are the implications for regional pharmacy chains? For suppliers of Health & Wellness products and services?

Emerging Disruptive Transformation in Retail

We welcome Brian Owens of Kantar Consulting back to share his thoughts on the current retail landscape, the short and long-term impacts the Amazon acquisition of Pillpack will have on retail pharmacy, the prospects of medical marijuana in retail pharmacy and the lessons being learned in Canada and the changing consumer values.

Refreshment Break

Employment Law Update: What's New and What to Worry About

Deborah Kelly returns to provide attendees with the latest employment law updates and what you need to know.

Refreshment Break

Diabetes Management & Prevention: What’s New?

This session highlights innovations in diabetes management services and diabetes prevention programs. Increasingly, patients turn to their pharmacy to provide them with diabetes care and preventive support. Among other topics, this session will also cover pharmacy engagement in the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Lunch

One-to-One Business Conferences

NACDS Sunset Party