Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Community-based pharmacies in the CPESN network will have access to the Workflow Services platform, a front-to-back digital solution to help support medical billing for point-of-care service delivery inside pharmacies.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Collaboration among faculty, students, national associations, and community pharmacy leaders is crucial as pharmacy practice continues to transform.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) is leading the way on PBM reform. Ginny Langbehn, vice president of marketing and communications at American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) sat down with B.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 8, 2024

Pharmacists in community and retail practices are stepping out from behind the counter and becoming more involved in patient care.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Survey data from nationally conducted studies of pharmacist practice settings including community, health system, and clinical pharmacy are consistently showing between 40-60% reporting job dissatisfaction and/or burnout

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 18, 2024

Pharmacists in community-based settings are now capable of developing innovative pharmacy practices and offering patient care services.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 11, 2024

Enhancing clinical trial outcomes through algorithmic prespecification in subgroup analysis can provide valuable insights for the FDA and medical community. Learn more about this practice and its importance in clinical research.

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PhRMA

APRIL 24, 2023

Nonprofit hospitals are supposed to help provide access to crucial treatment and services in our most vulnerable communities. But recent research adds to the mountain of evidence showing nonprofit hospitals continue to fall short in their community benefit.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There is a common misconception that all community pharmacies are alike, and that most of what community pharmacists do is count pills. This could not be further from the truth and Dr. Mohanad Znbaqa’s story will demonstrate just how versatile a career practicing in a community pharmacy can be!

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Carlie Traylor, PharmD, director of Strategic Initiatives and Student Affairs at NCPA discussed the growing roles of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and how COVID-19 has changed the landscape of services offered in community pharmacies.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

APRIL 4, 2023

To learn about some of the more unique career settings in the industry, check out the Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings page —where you can explore these unique career pathways such as integrated health-community paramedicine. Please describe your novel practice setting. What makes your career path unique?

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rice’s Pharmacy has not only navigated the evolution of community-pharmacy but has thrived with their dedication to local patient care and practice transformation.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

million to support four new studies focused on disparities in maternal health. | The studies will compare a range of practice-level and community- and home-based interventions to address common challenges in maternal health. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced funding awards of $80.5

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PhRMA

MARCH 2, 2023

Biopharmaceutical manufacturers provide steep discounts on outpatient medications (amounting to tens of billions of dollars a year) to 340B covered entities, which include certain hospitals and community health centers. These savings are supposed to be used by 340B covered entities to ensure patients have affordable access to medicines.

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IDStewardship

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Precepting is a near-ubiquitous element of pharmacy practice and remains the primary pathway to the development of young clinicians practice. Resources tailored to preceptor development in pharmacy are limited and may be dependent on the capabilities and emphasis placed at specific practice sites.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

MAY 1, 2023

Pharmacists work in a wide variety of practice settings and we highlight a portion of them on our Novel Practice Settings page. While being able to interact with patients is an important skill to learn as a pharmacist, there are dozens of different practice settings that don’t require a lot of person-to-person interaction.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In 2009, I was practicing in the emergency department when the H1N1 pandemic emerged. While on the frontlines of that pandemic, I depended on our community’s infectious disease specialists as I worked in real-time to provide patients with the answers and care they needed.

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MARCH 8, 2024

The latest disappointment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research brought crushing news for patients and physicians, forcing the community to consider just what to do with an approved medicine that doesn’t appear to work.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

An overview of the legal and business tools available to community, specialty, hospital, and health-system pharmacies in seeking to maintain payer network access and combat abusive practices.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

More than 15% of Americans — about 46 million — live in rural areas, but only 10% of doctors practice in these communities, many of whom are primary care and family physicians. That mismatch forces every rural doctor to tackle all sorts of cases and make the best use of their limited resources.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The last two decades have been a period of declining economic influence for practicing physicians. Independent medical practice has been steadily eroded by hospital employment, as well as by private equity and corporate acquisitions, to the point where less than half of physicians in the U.S. work in private practices.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Like most small community practices, Rice’s clinic has always kept “just in time” inventory – or just enough stock to last the clinic the next few days. Even OneOncology, a medical organization that supports community oncology clinics, had trouble finding the drug for Rice.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

WASHINGTON — A new, bipartisan deal in the Senate to fund primary care programs also includes new policies to restrain hospital costs, including a ban on some facility fees and restrictions on anticompetitive contracting practices. The package, negotiated between Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Supreme Court decisions that stand to stifle diversity and representation in medicine have hamstrung physicians across specialties and settings — in rural and urban communities, in hospitals, clinics, and independent practices.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2023

American Oncology Network (AON), a network of community oncology practices, announced it is participating in the Enhancing Oncology Model, a new value-based cancer care framework. | American Oncology Network (AON), a network of community oncology practices, announced it is participating in the Enhancing Oncology Model, a new value-based cancer care (..)

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The majority of respondents practiced in community pharmacy (38%) and hospital pharmacy (28%) settings, with other represented pharmacy sectors including general practice (12%), academia or education bodies (5%), commissioning organisations (4%), and mental health services (3%).

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

AUGUST 10, 2022

To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways. Please describe your novel practice setting. Our community liaison team will educate and impact how we can connect to communities.

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Pharma Times

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Extensive research into pharmacy responses across Europe during the pandemic yields several recommendations

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 16, 2024

I am looking forward to working with a distinguished team dedicated to integrating science into pharmacy practice, foster pharmaceutical science research and collaborations across disciplines, and contribute to providing expert advice on cutting-edge science that enhance patient care ,’ she added.

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JULY 13, 2023

government introduced the practice of redlining — categorizing neighborhoods based on the ethnic and racial backgrounds of the people who lived there, with areas primarily occupied by people of color identified as high-risk for mortgage lenders. In the 1930s, the U.S. Read the rest…

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

JULY 11, 2022

To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways. Please describe your novel practice setting. I am also the operational lead for North Carolina’s community pharmacy vaccine rollout.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

MARCH 25, 2024

Since then, the day has been celebrated by patients, healthcare organizations, and communities to recognize the hard work and dedication of doctors. Organize a Community Event: Coordinate with local organizations or healthcare institutions to organize a community event dedicated to honoring doctors.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

I aspire to become a trusted healthcare provider within my communities and help bridge gaps in healthcare access and quality for vulnerable populations. She looks forward to making an impact on those in the Los Angeles community and beyond. She looks forward to advocating for her community in her future pharmacy career.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

JANUARY 25, 2023

To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways. Please describe your practice setting. It’s a community pharmacy health hub practice setting.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

OCTOBER 21, 2022

To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways. Please describe your practice setting. Nuclear is my favorite practice of pharmacy. The same is true for the DJ career.

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PQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Centered around a series of workshops with more than 50 participants, including patients and representatives from community pharmacies, payers, academic institutions and other stakeholders, the project led to a set of PCOR priority topics.

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