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NASP 2022 Reveals a Pharmacy Landscape Shifting to Specialty

Omnicell

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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PQA Welcomes 11 New Members

PQA

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 Welcomes 11 New Members

PQA

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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Rare Disease Day and a Focus on Quality

PQA

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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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

pharmaphorum

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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Five for Friday March 8: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

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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Participate in the Measure Development Process in 2023

PQA

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.