Template for Specialty Pharmacy Integration

This deployment matters because it shows Foundation can drop into a health system that already has a specialty pharmacy, and improve the daily work without asking the system to rip out what it already built. At Intermountain, PAIGE AI is being layered onto an operation serving more than 14,000 specialty pharmacy patients, automating refill reminders, benefits verification, onboarding, and assessment calls. That is the kind of narrow, practical integration other health systems can copy.

• Intermountain already runs a real specialty pharmacy operation with refill support, prior authorization help, financial assistance, and service across multiple states. That makes the deployment more meaningful than a greenfield launch, because Foundation is fitting into an existing high touch workflow instead of replacing it.
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• The workflow Foundation is automating maps to the most labor heavy parts of specialty pharmacy. Its platform handles benefits verification, prior authorization packets, refill outreach, adherence check ins, and side effect monitoring, and internal research indicates these tasks can absorb up to 75% of staff time in pharmacy settings.
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• Integrated specialty pharmacy models tend to win by speeding access and improving follow through after a prescription is written. Published studies show integrated health system specialty pharmacies can improve adherence and time to therapy, which is why an AI layer that makes outreach and paperwork faster can be valuable to large systems.
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The next step is a repeatable sell in to health systems that want specialty pharmacy gains without building new software teams or replacing core pharmacy infrastructure. If Foundation keeps proving it can sit on top of incumbent workflows and cut manual work, PAIGE AI can become a standard add on for health systems scaling specialty and chronic care programs.