pharmacy-automation
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ARxIUM and the art of making medicine boring
A pharmacy robot can prepare a dose. ARxIUM’s bigger bet is that the machinery, the inventory and the people around it should work as one.
Noritsu America and the company behind the hour
One-hour photos made Noritsu familiar. Printers, pill packagers and a network of technicians reveal what it learned to sell next: a working day with fewer interruptions.
Stella Prefach Is Making Complexity Useful
After eight years at IBM, Stella Prefach took on a harder translation job: making pharmacy automation legible, useful, and human. Her method starts with partners, crosses silos, and ends where good marketing should - with a customer who can act.
The Hospital's Most Important Robot Might Be a Locked Drawer
Omnicell began with a father watching nurses hunt for supplies in a hospital. Three decades later, it is trying to make every medication drawer, robot and pharmacy workflow behave like one connected system.
Joy Liu
Joy Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Plenful, a San Francisco-based AI workflow automation platform modernizing healthcare operations. A Northwestern-trained economist who cut her teeth at Goldman Sachs and Barclays before moving into specialty pharmacy operations at Shields Health Solutions, Liu built Plenful from first-hand frustration with manual pharmacy workflows. Since emerging from stealth in 2023, she has grown the company to 60+ healthcare customers, achieved 4x year-over-year growth, and raised $76 million in total funding - including a $50 million Series B in 2025 co-led by Danaher co-founder Mitchell Rales. Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list, Liu is on a mission to return time and focus to healthcare workers drowning in administrative burden.