PQA

MARCH 10, 2023

The participating organizations were selected by PQA following a 2022 Request for Interest process that focused on the readiness and capabilities of payer and pharmacy partners for VBAs. Your Next Engagement Opportunities Network, Learn and Collaborate with PQA The next PQA Quality Essentials Webinar is Thursday, March 16, 1-2 pm ET.

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PQA

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The conversation highlights the importance of community partnerships and innovative approaches to bridging the gap between research and the community. The project is a pilot credentialing program for community pharmacists that aims to increase access to CGM and improve diabetes care. This webinar is supported by PerformRx.

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PQA

MARCH 8, 2024

Offering Resources to Implement Point-of-Care Testing The National Community Pharmacists Association and National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations have developed a new guidance document to help community pharmacy teams with their point-of-care testing services. "A

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PQA

MARCH 22, 2024

“When a provider prescribes any of these medications, they will prescribe it to LillyDirect, LillyDirect will take care of that patient and make sure that their prior authorization is done and really take care of that patient and then send that script over to Amazon Pharmacy,” said Tanvi Patel, director of Amazon Pharmacy.

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PQA

JULY 28, 2023

If you have news you'd like for us to spotlight in an upcoming Five For Friday, send us an email! -- Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE, PQA Chief Executive Officer Improving Health Outcomes through SDOH Screenings Enliven Health hosted a webinar on the importance of outreach in community pharmacies.

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PQA

JULY 14, 2023

If you have news you'd like for us to spotlight in an upcoming Five For Friday, send us an email! -- Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE, PQA Chief Executive Officer Improving Health Outcomes through SDOH Screenings Enliven Health hosted a webinar on the importance of outreach in community pharmacies.

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PQA

APRIL 5, 2024

Addressing Pharmacy Deserts McKesson is launching Project Oasis, a new initiative aimed at advancing health equity for at-risk populations in underserved communities. There are many opportunities to earn continuing education during sessions focused on health equity, community pharmacy and specialty pharmacy.

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Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Provider status would enable pharmacists to provide services permitted by state pharmacy practice acts and in collaborative agreements with physicians. As providers, the 250 to 300 retail clinics currently operating in medically underserved areas have a more significant opportunity for expansion and growth.

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PQA

AUGUST 22, 2022

This work includes: Collaborating with the Patient Advocate Foundation to identify improvements needed for SDOH screening and interventions in community pharmacies; Addressing the relevance and impact of medication adherence measures; and Filling knowledge gaps on the existing landscape of SDOH and the role of pharmacies and pharmacists.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

APRIL 25, 2024

The RPS said that the original version of its standards ‘was mainly community-pharmacy-focused’, but ‘with an evolving pharmacy landscape and expanding roles, a review of these standards [was] required to ensure it is fit for purpose’.

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PQA

JANUARY 27, 2023

Ensuring the Sustainability of Community Pharmacies Ilisa Bernstein, Interim CEO and Executive Vice President at the American Pharmacists Association, outlined APhA's priorities for 2023 in a Chain Drug Review opinion column. This forum will feature the PQS Industry Trend Report in Pharmacy Quality for 2022.

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PharmaVoice

JUNE 16, 2025

Each regularly blames the other for rising prescription drug costs, and the anticompetitive, self-dealing business practices that harm community pharmacies, plan sponsors, and patients. “There has been a lot of finger-pointing by both the pharma industry and traditional PBMs,” Sanchez said.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 17, 2025

Pharmacists in community pharmacies, in particular, have a long history of giving counseling and cognitive services away for free using retail economics, wherein the pharmacy buys low and sells higher, and the service cost to the pharmacy is absorbed in that retailing buy-sell gross profit margin. Why Not for OTCs?

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 22, 2025

Pharmacy Times: What aspects of the ADA 2025 Scientific Sessions do you think will be most relevant to patients managing diabetes in a community pharmacy setting? Nichols: I think anything related to CGM access is going to be important and really help pharmacists.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Implementation and evaluation of social determinants of health practice models within community pharmacy. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2019;76(4):251-253. doi:10.1093/ajhp/zxy040 13. Foster AA, Daly CJ, Logan T, et al. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2022;62(4):1407-1416.doi:10.1016/j.japh.2022.02.005 doi:10.1016/j.japh.2022.02.005

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2025

But we can't forget that at the pharmacy level, also sometimes that's the last touchpoint in a community pharmacy that somebody sees a patient who's taking those medications. Everywhere along those touchpoints, health care providers can certainly make an intervention there.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 10, 2025

Yet, many graduates will enter our community pharmacies—or, as I refer to them, primary care pharmacy practices. We need to recognize that community-located pharmacists are, indeed, assuming roles as primary care pharmacists. 3,4 Now more than ever, we need additional PharmD graduates in the direct-to-career route.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 11, 2025

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

A forthcoming webinar hosted by pharmaphorum with sponsor PHOENIX group looks at how harnessing the data and expertise of pharmacies, and via greater engagement with patients, consumers and shoppers can meet this emerging need. Industry: how can pharma switch from treating a disease to earlier health management?

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PQA

AUGUST 11, 2023

-- Loren Kirk, PharmD, CPHQ, CAE, IOM, PQA Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships Providing Immunizations in Community Pharmacy Angela Passamonte, from Retail Business Services, joined the PQS Quality Corner Show to discuss the value of providing immunizations at a community pharmacy level.

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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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PQA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The pharmacies in New York employed a social-determinants-of-health-specialist model, in which a staff member was trained to provide screenings and refer patients to an independent practice association that later connected patients to local resources. Pharmacy students are encouraged to attend this webinar. Register today!

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PQA

MARCH 3, 2023

The PQA Quality Forum Webinar is a regular, recurring series on healthcare quality topics with a focus on medication use and medication services. Most of the initiatives occurred in community pharmacies, but nontraditional health care sites came in at a close second.

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PQA

APRIL 5, 2023

The PQA Quality Forum Webinar is a regular, recurring series on healthcare quality topics with a focus on medication use and medication services. One surprising trend was whether respondents had received a vaccination at the pharmacy. The first chapter focused on questions assess respondents’ perceptions of pharmacists.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 11, 2025

The effect of community pharmacy-based interventions on patient health outcomes: a systematic review. Diabetes Ten City Challenge: final economic and clinical results. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2009;49(3):383-391. doi:10.1331/JAPhA.2009.09015 2009.09015 Blalock SJ, Roberts AW, Lauffenburger JC, Thompson T, O'Connor SK.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 12, 2025

He has recently served on the board of directors for the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the American Pharmacists Association Foundation. He also proudly practiced in community pharmacies across the state of North Carolina for 17 years.

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