Expanding Awareness About Hospital Pharmacies’ Transitioning Reality

Bluesight has officially published the results from its 2025 Hospital Pharmacy Drug Purchasing Trends Report, which happens to establish a comprehensive look into the financial, operational and supply chain challenges that are presently impacting hospital pharmacy departments, as well as innovative technologies that leading health systems are adopting in response.

Going by the available details, this particular report was prepared on the back of data from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and other sources. This included data from nearly 500 hospital sites leveraging Bluesight’s procurement optimization solutions.

Talk about the whole report on a slightly deeper level, we begin from how procurement teams are expected to save on drug spending despite rising costs. You see, more than 77% of pharmacy teams focused on reducing drug are actually spending extensively even though costs are expected to increase by 4% in 2025.

Next up, the report discovered that a larger chunk of hospitals rely on four to six suppliers for drug procurement, whereas on the other hand, nearly one-third manage relationships with 12 or more, something which really goes the distance to increase supply chain complexity.

Another detail worth a mention relates to the way drug purchasing optimization software solutions are driving significant savings. This translates to how the report found that nearly 500 hospitals leveraging CostCheck, Bluesight’s purchasing optimization tool, would go onto save more than $100 million as of July 2025, doing so with the help of recommended NDC changes, automated contract management, and GPO and 340B ration optimization.

Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon how drug shortages were deemed to cause hospitals nearly $900 million annually in labor expenses alone. The same is even made evident by a recent Hospital Pharmacy Operations Report (HPOR), where 75% of respondents listed drug shortages as a top-three issue facing their organization.

Rounding up highlights would be a piece of detail claiming that new predictive analytics software solutions can alert health systems regarding shortages up to 90 days earlier than current methods. To give you can example, Bluesight’s shortage management solution, ShortageCheck, successfully predicted a recent Acetaminophen shortage 64 days before its official announcement.

Bluesight, founded in 2011, has risen up the ranks by dishing out the necessary support for hospital operations. This it does through a brand of intelligence which significantly simplifies inventory management, procurement, and compliance. Focused on ensuring that health systems protect every patient and optimize every dollar, the company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider that more than 2,400 United States and Canadian hospitals presently bank upon its technology every day to enjoy efficient and safe operations.

“Pharmacy departments are on the front lines of the financial pressures facing health systems,” said Kevin MacDonald, CEO and co-founder of Bluesight. “This report shows how pharmacy teams are turning to automation, analytics, and integrated purchasing tools to bring costs down, maintain continuity of care, and deliver better outcomes under intense constraints.”

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