RxRewired: Bringing Pharmacy Into the Conversations Shaping Healthcare’s Future

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FSHP's RxRewired podcast launched on Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Some of the biggest decisions affecting healthcare happen without the input from one of the most trusted professions: pharmacy.

RxRewired creates a space for pharmacy to get involved in those conversations and to examining not only what is changing, but what those changes mean for pharmacists, patients, and the healthcare system.

Healthcare is changing quickly. New technology, evolving policies, shifting business models, and persistent challenges around cost and access are reshaping how care is delivered.

But one important voice is too often missing from those conversations: pharmacy.

The Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists (FSHP) is changing that with the launch of RxRewired: Inside What’s Next, a new podcast bringing pharmacy into the conversations shaping the future of healthcare.

Designed around short, focused discussions, RxRewired explores the decisions, innovations, and tensions influencing healthcare—from policy and patient access to technology, business execution, and the evolving role of pharmacists.

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Starting the Conversation With Rep. Gallop Franklin II

RxRewired launches with a guest who understands the intersection of pharmacy and public policy from both sides: pharmacist and Florida State Representative Gallop Franklin II, who represents House District 8.

The first episode tackles a provocative question: What if one of the biggest obstacles facing the pharmacy profession are the pharmacists themselves?

Rep. Franklin challenges pharmacists to consider why a profession that remains highly trusted and extensively trained has struggled to translate that expertise into greater influence within healthcare and public policy.

The conversation explores several issues that will help define pharmacy's future, including:

Why pharmacists are often trained to do more than current laws and practice models allow
How fragmentation across community, health-system, clinical, and independent pharmacy can weaken the profession's collective voice
Why political and professional engagement matters before a crisis directly affects your practice
How artificial intelligence could influence pharmacy jobs, workflow, and patient access over the next decade
What individual pharmacists can do now to help move the profession forward

Rather than offering another traditional policy recap, the episode challenges pharmacists to think differently about their profession, their influence, and their responsibility for helping shape what comes next.

RxRewired: Inside What’s Next is a new podcast from FSHP bringing pharmacy into the conversations shaping the future of healthcare.

Why RxRewired?

Some of the biggest decisions affecting healthcare happen outside the pharmacy department.

They happen in legislative chambers. Boardrooms. Technology companies. Health plans. Startups. Hospitals. Community organizations. And countless conversations about access, cost, innovation, and the future of patient care.

Pharmacists should be part of those conversations.

RxRewired creates a place to have them.

Future episodes will bring together perspectives from pharmacy, healthcare, policy, technology, business, and beyond—examining not only what is changing, but what those changes mean for pharmacists, patients, and the healthcare system.

The goal isn't simply to talk about the future of pharmacy.

It's to help pharmacy participate in creating it.