Advocacy, information and resources for the pharmacy profession.
All too often, the kudos, honorable mentions and stories about the challenges of front line health care workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic omits pharmacists. This blog is the first in a series designed to highlight the challenges pharmacists faced and
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Surveys and studies reveal that over 60% of pharmacists report experiencing a high level of burnout. This is one of the highest rates among healthcare professionals. The rate is higher than that found in nurses, surgeons, oncologists, and emergency medicine
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Pharmacists are one of the least happy careers in the United States. Career Explorer In my previous blog post I asked the question “How Happy are Recent Pharmacy Graduates?” My internet research showed a disturbingly large number of recent pharmacy graduates were unhappy with
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In my previous blog post I mentioned a few things that had been in the back of mind since leaving the echo chamber, one of those being the increasing frustration of new graduates coming out of pharmacy school and being
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I left the pharmacy ‘world” when I left Colorado. That could explain the lack of blog posts. After eating, drinking and breathing all things pharmacy for 10 years as a Colorado Pharmacists Association/Society board member, committee chair and officer, and
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Over 80% of the plans participating in the CMS Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (MTM) model test showed reductions in medical spending! Read more about Enhanced MTM in our post from 2017. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation
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How many times have you heard “pharmacy needs to shift their focus from product to service”? CPESN® USA and the Community Pharmacy Foundation is planning to help pharmacies do just that through the program “Flip the Pharmacy.” Who are these
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CVS Health and Aetna closed their $69 billion merger on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 bringing together one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains with health insurance giant Aetna yet, there are still many unanswered questions. What about antitrust implications? Will this merger reduce healthcare costs?
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Pharmacists have been asking ValuePharmacists “Where do I go to find out how to start a collaborative practice?” Our answer – the CDC’s Advancing Team-Based Care Through Collaborative Practice Agreements: Resource and Implementation Guide for Adding Pharmacists to the Care
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“The only way pharmacists will be paid for their medication-related services is if they can document their value.” The Pharmacist eCare Plan should be an excellent tool that pharmacists will be able to use to capture clinical data that payers
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