Drug Topics

JULY 17, 2025

Image Credit: StratfordProductions - stock.adobe.com Drug Topics®: From a practical standpoint, what are the most effective recommended practices for improving inventory turns in a community pharmacy? So knowing those things will really go a long way in treating your patient and taking care of them. Subscribe Now!

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Drug Topics

JUNE 20, 2025

Pharmacy technicians face significant stress from high workloads, understaffing, and the pressure to meet both patient care and business goals. Technicians frequently interact with frustrated or unwell patients, which can result in emotionally taxing or unsafe situations.

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Drug Topics

JULY 17, 2025

The event also features a Community RX Innovation Lab in partnership with Good Neighbor Pharmacy to explore strategies for sustaining community pharmacies. Ready to impress your pharmacy colleagues with the latest drug information, industry trends, and patient care tips? Subscribe Now!

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Drug Topics

JULY 10, 2025

The trusted relationships you’ve built allow you to deliver personalized care and serve as a powerful engine for long-term business success. 2 This potential to boost profitability is critical for independent pharmacies navigating tight operating budgets. Newsletter Pharmacy practice is always changing. Subscribe Now!

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Drug Topics

JUNE 9, 2025

Each episode will discuss a key topic in the women’s and maternal health spaces, giving pharmacists actionable advice that can improve patient outcomes. However, personalizing care for patients involves understanding a variety of patient-specific factors and how those factors impact medication use decisions.

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Drug Topics

JULY 25, 2025

If you think about a new graduate coming out of pharmacy school since 2000, they have this idea in their mind that they're going to come out and provide direct patient care, clinical services, and all these really great things they learned in pharmacy school. This is especially prevalent in the community setting.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 18, 2025

3 “The future of smart pharmacy, to me, fundamentally looks different.” Community pharmacies, which are very accessible to the public, are well positioned to address social determinants of health (SDOH), including food insecurity. Sign up today for our free Drug Topics newsletter. REFERENCES 1.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 5, 2025

Over the past decade, pharmacies have shifted from simply dispensing prescriptions to offering comprehensive clinical services. This change is driven by a growing recognition that pharmacies can play a crucial role in closing patient care gaps and improving health outcomes.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 8, 2025

In a pilot study, the implementation of a pharmacist previsit chart review and providing recommendations for adult patients with chronic pain who were prescribed more than 50 morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) was associated with a 14% decrease in daily MMEs without impacting pain scores. Sign up today for our free Drug Topics newsletter.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 14, 2025

Dave’s Pharmacy in Nebraska was recognized for its innovative patient care, winning Pharmacy of the Year. The conference highlighted expanding pharmacists' roles, diversifying services, and addressing health care access gaps.

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Drug Topics

JULY 17, 2025

The term ‘pharmacist-led care’ or ‘pharmacist-led interventions’ refers to health care services where pharmacists play a leading or central role in patient care,” they continued. 1 “These concepts cover a wide range of activities involving pharmacists directly in clinical patient care across various settings.”

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 22, 2025

Pharmacy deserts, with limited pharmacy access, negatively impact patient care, especially for chronic conditions, and community health. Innovative solutions like mobile units, telepharmacy, and mail-order services are crucial to address the challenges posed by pharmacy deserts. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003).

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Drug Topics

JULY 1, 2025

1 Ready to impress your pharmacy colleagues with the latest drug information, industry trends, and patient care tips? Sign up today for our free Drug Topics newsletter. REFERENCES 1. Persaud N, Workentin A, Rizvi A, et al.

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Drug Topics

JULY 7, 2025

On June 11, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law Senate File 383, a bill significantly pulling back on pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) practices, limiting their ability to exclude community pharmacies, impose strict contracts, and force the use of mail-order pharmacies, among other practices. “We're We Are Iowa.

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Drug Topics

JULY 18, 2025

The Community RX Innovation Lab, a partnership with Good Neighbor Pharmacy, invites teams to develop sustainable solutions for community pharmacies amid industry shifts and closures. Ready to impress your pharmacy colleagues with the latest drug information, industry trends, and patient care tips?

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Drug Topics

JULY 10, 2025

According to a study published in the journal Pharmacy , community pharmacists are well-positioned to increase the availability of mindfulness-based interventions because of their higher accessibility compared to primary care providers, particularly in rural areas. Pharmacy (Basel). References 1. BMC Womens Health.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 30, 2025

Nicole Cieri-Hutcherson, PharmD, BCPS, MSCP, FCCP : There's a lot of steps in the process that pharmacists can provide patient with information about. Pharmacists not only in community pharmacy settings where this is allowed can provide this education, but also in other settings, such as a hospital or an emergency department.

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Digital Pharmacist

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By understanding what led retail pharmacy team members to take these drastic actions, we can look at what independent pharmacies can do to avoid similar issues and also how independents can help members of these communities affected by the closures of retail chains.

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PQA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This approach enables health plans to obtain necessary blood pressure and point-of-care test results to facilitate treatment of care gaps. EQUIPP is currently accessible to 95% of community pharmacies, and the platform offers patient opportunities for pharmacies to make an impact to patient lives in their communities.

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PQA

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We also highlight our members' perspectives on expanded pharmacy services, social determinants of health and access to care through community pharmacy. She addressed working with health plans on new programs and services that create patient impact.

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The Digital Apothecary

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Current Issues in Pharmacy Foremost, I think there are a lot of issues hitting the pharmacy profession that really are important right now that are leading towards pharmacists concerns to problems that are a large issue right now, such as: DIR Fees and Lost Profits - The loss of money in community settings is enormous.

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PQA

AUGUST 8, 2022

Humana provided incentives to pharmacies as they improved patient outcomes for specific diabetes quality measures within the EQUIPP® dashboard. The Present EQUIPP® was designed to engage with pharmacy staff by providing quality measure performance information from participating health plans. Sheer et al.,

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