PAI 2030 Programming

Launched in December 2019, ASHP’s Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI) 2030 provides pharmacy teams with guidance for advancing healthcare, patient outcomes, and pharmacy practice. The guidance offered by the recommendations help pharmacists, health systems, and pharmacy leaders in their ongoing pursuit of optimal, safe, and effective use of medications. Midyear 2025 offers programming related to the five domains of PAI 2030:


PAI 2030 focused initiatives

The 2025 ASHP National Survey of Hospital Pharmacy Practice: A Conversation About the State of Health-System Pharmacy.


PAI 2030 domains

Patient-centered care

  • Ready to Roll: Pivoting Clinical Pharmacy Practice to Meet Evolving Care Needs in the Fast Lane
  •  Revolutionizing Sickle-Cell: A Look into Gene Therapy and Transitions of Care Pathways
  • Walking the Walk to Slow the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Roll: Implementing Comprehensive Medication Management Pharmacy Services into CKD Care
  • Breaking Barriers: Embracing Harm Reduction in Healthcare Settings for a Healthier Tomorrow
  • Place Your Bet on Pharmacogenomics (PGx) but Know Your Limits: Tips for Appropriate Application of PGx Results
  • The Specialty Pharmacy Shuffle: Dealing the Right Staffing Models for Success.
  • Drop It Like It’s Hot: Deprescribing Antihypertensive Agents in Older Adults
  • Home is Where the Hospital Is: Optimizing Medication Therapy in Hospital at Home
  • Disrupting the Norm: Transforming Patient and Team Culture for Maximum Care Impact
  • All In: Playing the Advocacy Game Across the Spectrum of Pharmacy Practice

Pharmacist role, education, and training

  • Empowering the Next Generation: Navigating Challenges and Redefining Experiential Education in Pharmacy
  • High-Stakes Headaches: Update on Headache Pharmacotherapy and Pharmacists’ Role in Management
  • Practice-Enhancing Interventions About the Ambulatory Care Medication-Use Process From 2024: Gems from AJHP
  • Practice-Enhancing Interventions About the Medication-Use Process From 2024: Gems from AJHP
  • Jackpot Strategies: Winning Big With Clinical Service Expansion in Health-System Community Pharmacies
  • Betting on Primary Care Transformation: Pharmacists Carry the Winning Hand Within Value-Based Care
  • Nurturing Pharmacy Leaders: Fostering a Culture of Continuous Professional Development
  • I’ve Got the Crash Cart! Pushing the Role of the Pharmacist in Cardiac Arrest Care
  • Achieving Fully Integrated Pharmacy Systems: Best Practices and Strategies for Streamlined Care
  • Bridging the Gap: Prescribing and Optimizing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Across the Spectrum of Care From Primary to Acute Care Settings
  • Ambulatory Care Clinical Pearls 2025
  • Stacking the Deck: Population Health Workflows and Metrics
  • Mapping Need, Making Change: Population Health in Practice
  • When the Birth Plan Goes Off Track: Pharmacist Preparedness for Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies

Technology and data science

  • Dashboards in Action: Building a Foundation for Data-Driven Pharmacy Decision-Making
  • Bottlenecks and Buy-In: Navigating Challenges During Drug Diversion Software Implementation in an Independent Community Hospital
  • Optimizing Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) Inventory: A Data-Driven Approach Using Linear Programming
  • Navigating the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Applications, Evaluation and the Pharmacist’s Role
  • Planning for the Unplanned: Pharmacy Technology Downtime Response
  • Let’s Get This Trial Started: An AI-Powered Approach to Streamlining Investigational Drug Services
  • Precision in Prevention: Using Predictive Analytics in Hospital, Clinic, and Outpatient Settings
  • Informatics Pearls 2025: Gigabytes of Information
  • From Risk to Resilience: Navigating Emergency Preparedness and System Downtime
  • The Final Safety Frontier: Bringing Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) to the Operating Room

Pharmacy technician role, education, and training

  • Climbing the Technician Ladder: Bring the Tools and Explore the Path
  • Bridging Gaps in Care: The Growing Role of Clinical Pharmacy Technicians
  • Teaming With Technicians: The Expanding Role of Pharmacy Technicians in Primary Care to Enhance Patient Medication Access

Leadership in medication use and safety

  • Strategic Planning and Execution: Insights from a Survey of Health-System Pharmacists in the US
  • Bedside Rounds to Boardroom Meetings: How to Develop Into an Influential Pharmacy Leader
  •  An Ace in the Hole: Improving Depression Treatment with PharmacogenomicsISMP Medication Safety Update 2025
  •  Measure for Impact: Demonstrating the Value of Pharmacy ServicesMedication Safety and Quality Pearls 2025
  • The Business of Healthcare: Pharmacy Services Driving Hospital Revenue
  • Event Investigations Under a Just System to Improve Safety
  • A New Era: Making the Change to Race-Free eGFR for Medication Decision-Making
  • A Winning Strategy: Confronting the Top 10 Patient Safety Challenges of 2025 With ISMP
  • Pharmacy Forecast 2026: Trends that Will Shape Your Future
  • Rolling the Dice With Biosafety: Pharmacy Best Practices for the Safe Handling and Management of Live Therapeutics
  • Future of Pharmacy: Highlights and Updates from the National Academies Innovations in Pharmacy Practice and Training Workshop
  • Visionary Voyage: Designing Your Pharmacy Quality and Safety Program to Optimize Patient Outcomes
  • Model and Metric Makeover: Transforming Clinical Pharmacist-to-Patient Ratios and Performance Metrics for Value-Based Excellence
  • How Smart are Smart Infusion Pumps in Preventing Medication Errors?
  • Safe to Speak: How to Foster Psychological Safety to Promote Effective Teamwork
  • Cognitive Load and Burnout in Pharmacy: Uncovering the Connection
  • Futurecasting System-Level Pharmacy: Key Roles of Leaders in Driving Value
  • Building and Maintaining Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Clinical Specialists
  • Leadership and Achieving Optimal Systemness: A C-Suite Perspective
  • Pharmacoeconomic Impact of New Therapies
  • Opioid Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU): We’re All In
  • High Stakes, High Acuity: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Immunocompromised and Critical Care Patients
  • Don’t Let Downtime Get You Down: Navigating Downtime, Cybersecurity, and Vendor Redundancy
  • Don’t Roll the Dice with Drug Diversion
  • Between Right and Wrong: Defining Pharmacoethics in the Daily Life of a Pharmacist



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