An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Specialty Pharmacy and Accelerating Performance
Top challenges impacting specialty pharmacy outcomes, and how health systems may achieve efficiencies and enhance performance for optimal outcomes.
Patients Should Be at the Center of Pharmacy Care. Why Aren’t They?
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.
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The Top Surgical Instruments Needed for Extractions
Discover what tools are essential for efficient, safe surgical extractions in today’s health care landscape, from elevators to forceps and beyond.
Prescribing Change for the Impact Pharmacists Can Make in Healthcare
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.
Pharmacists Are Essential to Rural Access to Healthcare
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.
Pharmacies Primed to put Patient Needs Back at the Forefront of Care
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.
Managing medications during Covid-19: A team effort in transitional care
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.
Navigating The Right Steps For Your Healthcare Startup
This webinar will explore how a banking platform approach could be the resource for your company.
New tool lets CVS pharmacists find medication savings opportunities
The rollout of the Rx Savings Finder is starting with CVS Caremark PBM members but will become more broadly available throughout 2018.
Three hot health IT collaborations you need to know about
Telemedicine and EHR vendors figured into deals involving Medtronic, CVS and Zocdoc, among other businesses.
Digital health and the pharmacy of the future: 5 startups to watch
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 […]
This resourceful pharmacist built a software startup to help people shop for prescription meds
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 […]
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How to Optimize Your Phlebotomy Setup for Efficient Patient Care
The layout of your phlebotomy station can significantly impact efficiency. A well-thought-out setup ensures that every tool is within reach, minimizing unnecessary movement and reducing patient wait times.
UNC spinout wants to help health workers wipe out surface contamination by harmful cancer drugs
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 […]
Media company’s “visual medical encyclopedia” is a Pinterest experiment for pharma
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 […]