Covid Challenges and Opportunities for Pharmacists – Testing

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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What do you mean”Fix the Glitch”?

What do you mean “Fix the Glitch”? The title of our 5/13/2018 blog post had a lot of people scratching their heads. What exactly does it mean? The Value Pharmacists’  “Fix the Glitch” post announced that the Colorado legislature passed

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“Fix the Glitch”

Colorado House Bill 2018-1313 has passed the legislature. After final enactment and rules promulgation, pharmacists will be prescribers, under certain circumstances, in Colorado. Hear testimony in support of CO HB18-1313 (begins at ~9.5 minutes and lasts over 20 minutes).  

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Proposed Pharmacy Rules Strike the Word “Prescribe”: An Update on Prescriber Status in Colorado

Many of you have been requesting an update on prescriber status of pharmacists in Colorado since our blog post “Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado – Analysis and Status” in which we asked: Could it be that all the reports in the

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Enhancing Services in a Community Pharmacy

Lucas Smith, Pharm.D.,  has been an active presence in Colorado pharmacy for several years. We met him, and worked together on student memberships in the Colorado Pharmacists Society, when he served as NCPA student chapter president at the University of Colorado

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Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado – Analysis & Status

We’re predicting there will be changes in the near future and will be updating the status on “pharmacist prescribing in Colorado” as events warrant. (from our email series on Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado) June 2018 What do you mean “Fix

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Considering Collaborative Practice? Consider CU’s Apothecary!

Susan Mead, Pharm.D., Director of The Apothecary at the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, manages the university’s pharmacies in Boulder, Colorado including the Wardenburg Health Center Apothecary and the Boulder Health Center Pharmacy. Her pharmacies serve primarily CU students, staff

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7 Things You Need to Know about Statewide Protocols

How can pharmacists increase access to important public health services? The answer – statewide protocols. The term statewide protocol refers to a framework that specifies the conditions under which pharmacists are authorized to prescribe, furnish, or dispense without a prescription

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