Omnicell, a leading healthcare technology provider focused on empowering autonomous medication management, is committed to solving the critical challenges inherent in medication management and elevating the role of clinicians within healthcare as an essential component of care delivery. Omnicell is focused on helping its customers define and deliver a cost-effective medication management strategy designed to equip and empower pharmacists and nurses to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks, and to drive improved clinical, operational, and financial outcomes across all care settings. We are doing this with an industry-leading medication management infrastructure which includes storage and dispensing automation powered by an intelligence ecosystem. Our comprehensive set of solutions provides the critical foundation for customers to realize the Autonomous Pharmacy, an industry-wide vision defined by pharmacy leaders for improving operational efficiencies and ultimately targeting zero-error medication management alongside 5 other outcomes laid out in the Autonomous Pharmacy framework.
In 2024, the United States spent $806 billion on prescription drugs, a 10.2% increase from 2023. We believe there are significant challenges facing the practice of pharmacy today. These challenges include, but are not limited to, budget constraints and acute workforce shortages, where 88% of hospitals report technician deficits and 92% lack sufficient sterile compounding expertise. In addition, health systems face rising liability related to drug diversion, with a 61% increase in the average number of investigations per hospital since the beginning of 2023. We also recognize that these challenges may impact the timing of contracting for, or implementation of, our products, solutions, or services. However, we believe that over time these significant challenges facing pharmacists will drive demand for increased automation, visibility, insights, and improved medication management outcomes that our solutions are designed to enable. Because of this, we believe that our solutions are well-positioned to address the evolving needs of healthcare institutions and therefore present opportunities for long-term growth.
In an effort to address these challenges and deliver solutions to help drive positive medication management outcomes, we continue to make significant investments in our research and development efforts to further advance the industry-defined vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy. Furthermore, we believe a combination of dispensing automation and an intelligence ecosystem is needed in every care setting where medications are managed. We are focused on delivering solutions to help our customers realize the industry-defined vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy and driving positive medication management outcomes with superior customer experience in two core market categories through:
Hospital and Health System Solutions: This category enables the end-to-end medication process across the entire continuum of care. It unifies Central Pharmacy automation, robotics, and IV sterile compounding with Point of Care automated dispensing in Nursing Units and Operating Room/Procedural areas. From the loading dock to the bedside, this is designed to provide for medication safety, availability, and workflow efficiency. This category also supports Consolidated Pharmacy Service Center operations.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 26, 2026. Read the filing