Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly.

At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers running Northwell Health, WVU Medicine, Ascension, Mount Sinai, Ochsner Health, Prisma Health, Geisinger, Baylor Scott & White, Northwestern Medicine and Advocate Health told each other what the next decade of the seat actually has to look like.

This briefing captures six themes from those conversations — pharmacy's seat at the C-suite table, AI moved from pilot into operational results, the economic model moving upstream to total cost of care, specialty-ambulatory-infusion integrated onto one platform, workforce as the rate-limiting step on every other strategy, and drug shortages as a permanent operating condition.

Not a consultant pitch. Not the earnings-call version. Just the CPOs and pharmacy leaders rewriting the seat, in their own voices, on what they're actually building.

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