How AI Will Change the ePrescribing Experience for Patients, Providers and Pharmacies
There are a number of important ways AI will impact patients, providers and pharmacies in the coming year. They break down into three key areas.
What AI Can Do for Pharmacist Burnout
AI offers a number of immediate opportunities for pharmacies to change their operation through intelligent automation, freeing up pharmacists to provide their patient population with higher-value services like patient counseling and medication management.
Improving the Healthcare Financial Experience to Help Care Flow
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
2025 and Beyond: Key Trends to Watch in Pharmacy
As we all work to wrap up the year and enter into 2025, here are a few trends to keep your eye on in the coming months and beyond.
Community Pharmacies Fill Critical Healthcare Gaps in Rural Areas — Here’s How We Can Empower and Support Them
We need to equip pharmacists with technology that can help them to make impactful clinical interventions in the pharmacy and reimburse them for these services, which would help to address the provider shortage.
Shifting Focus from Medication Costs to Medication Value
To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.
Pharmacists Embrace Provider Status in Healthcare, but Hurdles Remain
Despite the evidence of their positive impact, pharmacists today lack the ability to reliably bill for clinical services as healthcare providers. It is important that payers provision pharmacists, include them in networks, and enable reimbursement through traditional billing models.
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
Two CVS Locations Make Moves To Join National Pharmacy Union Movement
Two CVS stores in Rhode Island have filed petitions to join the Pharmacy Guild, which is building a national pharmacy union. The locations are close to CVS Health's headquarters in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Technology as a Cure: Alleviating Clinician Burnout, Empowering Pharmacists to Fill Care Gaps This Cold and Flu Season
In 61% of counties with a PCP shortage, there is a high volume of retail pharmacies. It reveals an opportunity for pharmacists, who have the education and training, and are already providing vaccinations, tests and frontline treatments to amplify the impact they can have on providing accessible care in the communities they serve.
Pharmacists Could Play a Big Role in Addressing the PCP Shortage
Integrating pharmacists into primary care teams could be a key way to address the primary care physician shortage, according to a new report. The pandemic made it clear that pharmacists are clinically trained and want to provide care beyond filling prescriptions, the report said.
The business of empathy: How pharmacists can improve performance by improving the human connection
When pharmacies engage on a human level with patient support programs, patients become more fully engaged in their treatment, leading to potentially significant health benefits and good business for pharmacies.
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
FDA says pharmacists can prescribe Covid treatment
The AMA believes physicians should still be the main prescribers, while advocates for provider status for pharmacists say it's a win for health equity and will expand treatment access.
INVEST panelist: Provider status is very necessary for pharmacists (and I will argue with AMA later on this)
James Lott, CEO of Script Health in Chicago, strongly favors the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, the bill that would provide pharmacists expanded reimbursement as he outlined many ways they are already providing care to millions in America.
Walmart pharmacies fueled opioid crisis, DOJ lawsuit claims
The Justice Department has sued Walmart for fanning the flames of the opioid crisis through its network of pharmacies, claiming that the retailer knowingly filled thousands of illegitimate opioid prescriptions. But Walmart says the lawsuit is "misguided."
Allscripts, Surescripts help pharmacists gain access to patient data after Hurricane Harvey
For a limited time, the companies will provide pharmacists in Texas and Louisiana with free access to patient-specific medication history data.
Digital Pharmacist acquires rival app to accelerate pharmacy services product development
The deal gives the company the means to provide more personalized medication management support to community pharmacists and their customers.