June 19th 2024
A survey of health system specialty pharmacy employees found that hybrid work significantly improved quality of life and workplace productivity.
May 2nd 2024
A siloed approach to care can worsen patient outcomes, but collaboration between one health system specialty pharmacy and a manufacturer led to better patient care.
A review found that many guidelines that recommended pharmacogenetic testing were inconsistent between clinical associations.
April 30th 2024
The role of health care specialty pharmacies has expanded.
December 8th 2023
The analysis revealed deeper issues created by payer and manufacturer lockouts placed on Integrated Health System Specialty Pharmacies.
Collaborative Diabetes Model Saves Health Costs
How a diabetes clinic that includes a collaboration between an endocrinologist and a pharmacist can produce thousands of dollars in health-care savings.
Pharmacy Technician Conference Creates Consensus on Technician Qualifications
The conference emphasized the need for standardization and the importance of safety in the training of pharmacy technicians.
Walmart Pharmacy Adds Express Lanes to Its App
New express lanes are designed to make it easier for customers to quickly fill their prescriptions.
Drug Diversion on the Rise at VA Medical Centers
The Associated Press is reporting that federal authorities are ramping up investigations at VA and federal medical centers due to an increase in diversion of opioids and other problems.
BD Targets Opioid Control IV Safety Med Availability
Safety Concerns Over Some Hepatitis C Drugs
The ISMP has issued a report that links several direct-acting antiviral agents for hepatitis C to serious adverse side effects. But drug makers take issue.
Getting Reimbursed for Services Rendered: It’s no Magic Trick
Pharmacists use their expertise to help patients -- as well as insurance companies. But we do it for free!
Faulty Drug Interaction Overrides: We Have to Do Better
We need a system that cries wolf only when a wolf actually appears--not every time a chihuahua dances by.
Atezolizumab for Urothelial Carcinoma and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Here: an overview of atezolizumab, the first new drug in two decades for bladder cancer and now approved for NSCLC.
Food, Juice, and Drugs: Hold the Grapefruit
Do your patients know about the interactions between common foods and drugs? We take a look at what you need to know.
Meeting the Pharmacy Needs of Tourists, Vacationers, and Travelers
Are you prepared to help when someone far from home has lost their prescription medications?
Dietary supplements-- an FDA primer
FDA is not authorized to review dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness before they go on the market. But it does provide an electronic safety reporting portal tailored exclusively for dietary supplements.
First Do No Harm
The tools for improving quality are available to almost every pharmacist and pharmacy technician, whose job is to make the system work. But this may be the weakness in pharmacy’s march to quality.
NCPA Embraces Value Over Volume
Greater accountability for pharmacy benefit managers? That's just one of the goals of the President of the National Community Pharmacists Association.
A Strategy to Boost Medication Compliance
Looking for ways to increase medication compliance by challenging patients -- such as the elderly and those with mental illness?
Chains Step up Efforts Against Drug Abuse
Naloxone can now be dispensed without a prescription in 33 states and Washington, DC. Here's how two big pharmacy chains are making the livesaving opioid antagonist more accessible.
Automated Dispensing Systems -- One High-Tech Solution
Health system pharmacies that require large-scale deployment of automated dispensing cabinets are faced with multiple challenges. Here's one solution.
Top 5 Things to Know About Future Drug Spending
How will money be spent on medications in the next 5 years? Here's a look at the top trends.
How You Can Help Prevent Opioid Abuse
Pharmacists are on the front lines of helping to curb abuse and misuse in the opioid epidemic. But how can you make this happen in the real world?
Five Innovative New Products for Diabetes
Here's a quick overview of new drugs, a novel device that can replace fingersticks, and an “artificial pancreas” meant to make life easier for patients with diabetes.
Why consumers trust pharmacists
Americans ranked pharmacists second only to nurses in a Gallup survey about trusted professions.
Get ready for the new USP hazardous medications standards
Some ASHP members are already in good shape; but 20% agree that “We are in trouble.”
Ascension honored for enhancing medication safety
The St Louis-based company received the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Cheers Award.
Generics and biosimilars, key to Trump drug price concerns
If pharma is “getting away with murder” with drug pricing, more generic and biosimilars can help control costs, says this group.
Study shows benefits of a centralized pharmacy-led prior authorization process
Pharmacy-led interventions in prior authorization processing resulted in a statistically significant benefit in improving time to PA approval, time to first fill, and time too pick-up.
Drug expenditure data help pharmacists plan ahead
A recent report projects an 11% to 13% increase in total drug expenditures in hospitals and health systems in 2016.
Efficiency and security drive medication management system upgrade
Trying to enhance medication management across a continuum of care in a multi-facility hospital IT environment is no easy task.
Health-system pharmacists embrace medication standardization campaign
Completion of Phase I of ASHP’s Standardize 4 Safety initiative is fast approaching.
ASPs vs. microbial resistance: Pharmacists lead the charge
The Pew Charitable Trusts took a look at antibiotic stewardship programs in 10 U.S. health systems. Here's the result.
Vision, purpose, and passion drive leaders in pharmacy
One other thing that really good leaders have: Really good managers.