Drug Topics

JULY 5, 2025

He emphasizes the critical need for health care providers, especially pharmacists, to independently evaluate scientific evidence, maintain open communication with patients, and proactively address vaccine-related concerns. Cleveland: It really comes down to being accessible, and I know pharmacy is very busy.

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JUNE 11, 2025

Behavioral Science Methods Failed to Improve Medication Adherence Brian Nowosielski May 27th 2025 Article Researchers aimed to estimate the impact of using behavioral science principles within communication intended for hypertension medication adherence.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 11, 2025

1 “Our results also show a potential for enhancing communication between patients and [providers] to align treatment goals better and empower shared decision-making.” The present survey shows that more than one-third of the patients were unaware that psoriasis is a systemic disease,” concluded the authors.

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PQA

JUNE 27, 2024

The use of specialty medicine has grown rapidly in recent decades, fueling parallel growth in the number of specialty pharmacies that serve patients who are prescribed specialty medications. Results of this work were published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy in October 2022.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A similar inflection point now faces the specialty pharmaceutical industry. Along their journey, specialty pharma patients interact with a series of siloed institutions: clinics, specialty pharmacies, copay program vendors, patient assistance programs, nurses, etc. The time to cross that bridge has passed.

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Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Kristen Dowd Director, Pharmacy Management Services, Omnicell If the 2022 NASP (National Association of Specialty Pharmacy) Annual Meeting and Expo is any indication, we are approaching a time when specialty pharmacy simply becomes pharmacy – when complex, high-touch biologics become nearly as ubiquitous as their broad-spectrum counterparts.

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Viseven

JULY 4, 2025

Data-driven insights help us connect with customers by making our communications feel personal and giving them more value. Next, we create intuitive, interactive dashboards and reports that allow you to easily uncover hidden patterns, trends, and opportunities – and effectively communicate these insights across your team.

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PQA

OCTOBER 16, 2024

PQA offers a competitive Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiential (APPE) Rotation for pharmacy students, which provides experiential learning opportunities in non-profit association management, medication use quality education, communications, research and performance measurement.

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PQA

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Ensuring the quality of medication use is critically important for rare disease patients, payers, clinicians, specialty pharmacies and everyone with a role in the care process. The economic burden of rare disease reached nearly $1 trillion in 2019, and the average drug approved under the Orphan Drug Act costs nearly $120,000 per year.

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PQA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Successfully piloting pharmacy measure concepts focused on blood pressure and A1c improvement and control. Successfully piloting PQA’s endorsed measure focused on specialty pharmacy turnaround time. Beyond the member resource library, PQA members can stay updated with our frequent email and newsletter communications.

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PQA

MARCH 28, 2024

Our members include community and specialty pharmacy organizations, pharmacists and other healthcare providers, pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences, technology vendors, government agencies, health information technology partners, researchers, accrediting organizations and academia.

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PQA

MARCH 27, 2024

Our members include community and specialty pharmacy organizations, pharmacists and other healthcare providers, pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences, technology vendors, government agencies, health information technology partners, researchers, accrediting organizations and academia.

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PQA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Specialty Pharmacy Abandonment Rate TEP will define a measure around primary abandonment rate of specialty pharmacy prescriptions. The Health Equity TEP will review how PQA measures can be a tool to foster health equity by producing recommendations related to stratification for quality measures.

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PQA

MARCH 8, 2024

Ensuring the quality of medication use is critically important for rare disease patients, payers, clinicians, specialty pharmacies and everyone with a role in the care process. If you have questions or would like to be involved, email us at Communications@PQAalliance.org. prior to the PQA Leadership Summit.

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PQA

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Our members include community and specialty pharmacy organizations, pharmacists and other healthcare providers, pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences, technology vendors, government agencies, health information technology partners, researchers, accrediting organizations and academia.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JULY 8, 2024

You can only get Nucala from a specialty pharmacy. But, the list price is the wholesale price charged to pharmacies, not to patients. If prescribed Nucala without insurance, you will likely pay the list price plus an additional amount charged by the specialty pharmacy dispensing it.

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PQA

APRIL 21, 2023

Specialty pharmacies should consider targeting nonadherent patients for adherence interventions. PQA has prepared summaries of each of these important communications, focusing on final decisions regarding Medicare's prescription drug coverage programs to highlight points of interest for our members.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 23, 2025

According to Roth, Johnson, and several other experts, the best way to conduct diabetes services is through collaboration and constant communication. Although each has specific advantages, utilizing the proper education, evidence, and recommendations will be crucial in improving diabetes outcomes. REFERENCE Johnson H, Roth H.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 8, 2025

Designed to manage patients with complex, chronic neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, migraine, and movement disorders, the model aims to enhance medication access, streamline communication, and improve clinical outcomes.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 16, 2025

Behavioral Science Methods Failed to Improve Medication Adherence Brian Nowosielski May 27th 2025 Article Researchers aimed to estimate the impact of using behavioral science principles within communication intended for hypertension medication adherence.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 11, 2025

Image Credit: © Chinnapong - stock.adobe.com At the 2025 Oncology Pharmacists Connect (OPC) meeting in Austin, Texas, from June 19 to 20, 2025, an encore presentation from the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society Annual Meeting will highlight findings from a retrospective analysis conducted by Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

These job duties each require different skill sets, from writing and verbal communication to process development, technical aptitude, and deep clinical expertise. Someone adept at all these skills simultaneously is called a unicorn—and unicorns are rare in oncology pharmacy, if they exist at all.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 3, 2025

So we are licensed by the medical board and also by the board of pharmacy. So we'll send the prescriptions that they need to our specialty pharmacy and then get those meds and bring them to the patient prior to them ever coming to transplant and go, “Okay, these are the meds you're going to take.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

2 About the Authors Sneha Baxi Srivastava, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, DipACLM, FADCES , is associate director of skills education at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science College of Pharmacy in North Chicago, Illinois.

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PharmD Live

JUNE 16, 2025

Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 28 (3), 379–386. The role of integrated medical and prescription drug plans in addressing racial and ethnic disparities in medication adherence. link] Brown, M. T.,  T., & Bussell, J. K. Medication adherence: WHO cares? Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86 (4), 304–314.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Then we talk through the clinical data together with our providers so they fully understand both the limitations of the study and the benefits and what they can expect and communicate to their patients. What I also love is that there are different payer groups represented here, so we can have better collaboration and communication.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 17, 2025

If a discrepancy is found, the pharmacy nurses will hold the shipment, and a clinical intervention will be communicated to the provider. Results American Oncology Network (AON) Pharmacy collected data on waste and cost avoidance from February 2023 to September 2023.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 13, 2025

CPAs are essentially signed contracts that have formal agreements with well-defined scopes, which allow for collaboration and communication among health care professionals in areas lacking aspects of health care, according to Klepser. This is where collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) come in.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 12, 2025

With health education, provision of infrastructure, better communication, and integration into mobile health (mHealth), we can help improve both screening and vaccination in low- and middle-income countries." These efforts would help close the access gap and support global goals for cervical cancer prevention. " 5 REFERENCES 1.

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The Physician Pharmacist

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These are just two particular examples that I can recommend from personal experience, but I am confident that there are plenty of other fortuitous positions available in other pharmacy industries. Look into specialty pharmacy sites, a position as a hospital checker, or even something related to managed care.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Choosing between Fasenra and Nucala to manage severe asthma requires complex decision-making and communication with your healthcare provider, but having an understanding of how the drugs work can help you understand why they may prescribe one over the other.

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PQA

DECEMBER 15, 2022

PQA is developing a set of standard pharmacy performance measures suitable for assessing pharmacy performance and for use in value-based arrangements (VBAs). These policy advancements increasingly position pharmacies as optimal sites for convenient and efficient access to care and services and support quality improvement efforts.

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PQA

APRIL 5, 2023

Thorne explained that these results show two trends with opposing effects: After COVID-19, more patients received vaccines and testing at pharmacies, which may have increased patient comfort with pharmacists and provided them with a good experience. The answers represented a staff-based perspective and a willingness and readiness perspective.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 22, 2021

Given the specialised focus in the analysis and the nature of the data, there are caveats associated with using this data source; these may include under-representation of in-patient claims, limited coverage of certain mail-order channels and specialty pharmacies, and the uncertainty of claims capturing for some patient populations.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 7, 2025

Q&A: pharmacists can overcome vaccine hesitancy through trust and communication APhA 2025. Peter Hotez (March 28, 1 PM ET). HealthDay News. March 28, 2025. Accessed April 22, 2025. Gallagher A, Angelo L. Drug Topics. April 1, 2025. Accessed April 22, 2025.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 5, 2025

To properly and responsibly allocate these medications to patients, pharmacists and health professionals must develop proper literacy and adeptness at using new products such as Detect-A-Dose while maintaining adequate communication and multidisciplinary teamwork. REFERENCES 1. Delgado NL, Usuyama N, Hall AK, et al. Npj Digital medicine.

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