Transforming Pharmacy Practice to Deliver Value
Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE, CEO of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, hosted the keynote session at the Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit Spring 2025 event.
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) consists of various pharmacy experts and staff members with the mission of improving pharmacy quality across the country on a daily basis. PQA’s CEO, Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE, hosted a session at the Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit Spring 2025 to discuss his company’s work, as well as how to transform pharmacy practices while simultaneously delivering value to patients.
“Our founding CEO, Laura Cranston, quite literally founded PQA out of her basement and has stood it up into a nonprofit organization,” said Cost during his presentation. “We're based in Alexandria, Virginia. We're a 501(c)(3) charitable research organization, and we're dedicated to improving safe, effective, and appropriate medication use and addressing issues that impact a person's ability to access and use medications.”
From challenges in pharmacy now to his look toward the future, Cost touched on many important issues within pharmacy and how his company is working together with other partners to address ongoing pharmacy challenges. In his session, titled Transforming Pharmacy Practice to Deliver Value, Cost provided insights into differences between pharmacies and health systems, PQA’s ongoing initiatives, innovation in pharmacy practice, and so much more.
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