Paul Naismith is a practising pharmacist and the CEO of Fred IT Group. He co-founded Fred in 1991 and has grown the business to be Australia’s largest provider of IT services to the pharmacy industry. He is the man behind the market leading IT solutions Fred Dispense, eRx Script Exchange and MedView amongst others. Paul’s vision is to make medication management safer and more effective for all Australian’s. He has been a driving force in the recent introduction of electronic prescriptions as well as providing systems to aid in a national approach to combat accidental prescription drug deaths using real time prescriptions monitoring. To help deliver his vision, Paul holds the position as Chair of the Board for PDL, the major indemnity provider for pharmacy as well as Chair of APPCo, publisher of the Australian Journal of Pharmacy. In 2020, Paul received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University and in 2021 Paul was named the Victorian Pharmacist of the Year by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.

Session details: Digital Health – the next 5 years for pharmacy | Thursday 20 March 2025 | 2.00pm – 2.45pm