We should strive for a future where patients have easy and affordable access to medications, supported on their journey by trusted pharmacy professionals who are an integral part of their care team.
Even as value-based care finds its footing and expands further, team-based approaches to care delivery incorporating pharmacists as crucial connections are already bearing results—helping provider organizations achieve 5-star CMS ratings for medication adherence, driving down costs, and driving up the quality of life for patients.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Tapping into community pharmacy can bring water to these rural healthcare deserts. Studies show that nine in ten Americans live within five miles of a pharmacy and high-risk patients visited their community pharmacy an average of 35 times per year, compared to four visits to their primary care provider and nine visits to specialists.
While they’ve always served as hubs for medication and other basic necessities, now is the time to innovate and remove the burden from the healthcare system. It’s time for pharmacies to become central locations for all things health and wellness– diagnostics included.
As my personal experience with my grandparents proved, engaging with your local pharmacist can reduce the burden placed on a patient’s family and the primary caregiver, while making the transition to at-home care manageable.
The rollout of the Rx Savings Finder is starting with CVS Caremark PBM members but will become more broadly available throughout 2018.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Telemedicine and EHR vendors figured into deals involving Medtronic, CVS and Zocdoc, among other businesses.
A California state law passed last fall to recognize pharmacists as healthcare providers illustrates how the traditional behind-the-counter role of the pharmacist is changing fast in the new era of healthcare. It’s no surprise then that technology innovation is rising to meet pharmacists as their roles expand. Several interesting companies aimed at transforming a particular […]
Pharmacist Michael Rea got his startup idea from one particular customer whose mother was paying so much for her prescriptions that she was considering selling her house or stopping some of her medications. Her fixed income just didn’t support paying for both. It was an aha moment for Rea – at the time a pharmacy […]
Chemotherapy drugs used today are potent and nonselective, meaning they kill both cancerous and non-cancerous cells. That’s why many cancer patients experience so many troublesome side effects. It’s also why a pair of University of North Carolina researchers want the healthcare industry to remember to ask another question: Are these drugs handled as safely as […]
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Here’s an interesting play on healthcare social media. Despite the fact that pharma has been largely absent from Pinterest, a media company that provides drug information crowdsourced from pharmacists is turning to the social media outlet to spread its medication-related content. Texas-based media company RxWiki provides social media services to community pharmacists and condition- and […]