Pharmacy Times

JUNE 24, 2025

Beyond that, it’s about sharing clinical experiences—learning how others approach patient care, maybe doing things a little differently or more effectively. It’s incredibly impactful to be in a room full of amazing pharmacists from across the country, reviewing late-breaking ASCO data.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 13, 2025

During the session “Collaborative Practice, Statewide Protocols, and Independent Prescriptive Authority: How Pharmacy is Expanding Services to Increase Access to Patients,” Klepser highlighted the importance of moving beyond product dispensing to provide higher-level services, such as immunizations and medication therapy management.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2025

TOC pharmacists enhance medication management, reducing errors and improving patient outcomes through comprehensive care transitions. The study underscores the importance of GDMT at discharge and the potential for pharmacy models to improve healthcare metrics and hospital revenue.

Hospitals

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

Isaacs stresses the critical role of pharmacists in staying informed about these advancements, recommending strategies like attending the conference, accessing virtual options, and sharing new findings through methods like journal clubs to improve patient care. Pharmacy Times: Can you introduce yourself?

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JULY 2, 2025

In an interview with Pharmacy Times , LeAnne Kennedy, PharmD, BCOP, CPP, FHOPA, oncology clinical manager at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shares insights about the facility’s Wake Outpatient Transplant Program and highlights its positive impact on patient care outcomes.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 8, 2025

Evidence supports the model's effectiveness, showing reduced relapse rates in multiple sclerosis patients. SHOW MORE Integrating specialty pharmacists into neurology teams enhances patient care, medication management, and clinical outcomes for chronic conditions.

Patient Care

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Of note, the significant cost savings achieved through biosimilars underscore their economic importance in increasing patient access to life-altering medications. REFERENCE Darkow A. Decoding the Logic: An Overview of Biologics and Biosimilars.

Immunization

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 27, 2025

Pharmacists stand at the forefront of patient care, making them indispensable in dispelling misinformation that can sometimes surround biosimilars. Their accessibility and expertise perfectly position them to engage in direct conversations with patients, addressing safety, efficacy, and interchangeability concerns.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

Kalis, PharmD, BCOP Key Takeaways Oncology pharmacy's complexity outpaces the generalist model, necessitating specialization for effective patient care and operational efficiency. These are all important and necessary topics that help cancer centers run effectively and deliver exceptional patient care.

Compounding

Pharmacy Times

JULY 2, 2025

Pharmacists are essential in managing access, patient education, and monitoring outcomes, ensuring adherence and addressing administrative challenges. SHOW MORE Discover how Vyepti revolutionizes migraine prevention with rapid efficacy and strong safety, empowering pharmacists to enhance patient care.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JULY 22, 2025

Personalized drug selection can lead to faster symptom control, fewer hospitalizations, and improved adherence—all of which contribute to better outcomes and a more streamlined care process. Beyond improving medication safety, pharmacogenetics enhances clinical efficiency by reducing the reliance on trial-and-error prescribing.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JULY 23, 2025

Eugene Przespolewski, PharmD, BCOP, DPLA : At OPC, I presented a few different topics, really focused on care models and optimization. We talked about the pharmacist’s impact on patient care, addressed challenges and concerns with AI, and also touched on drug shortages. But in this study, I think it was actually a good thing.

Specialty Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 9, 2025

Their goal was to promote consistent, high-quality, pharmacist-led care by standardizing the way clinical competence is evaluated—both at initial onboarding and as part of ongoing professional development.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 10, 2025

The convenience of once-daily dosing and a rapid IV bolus administration may offer workflow efficiencies in hospital or surgical settings, where minimizing polypharmacy and streamlining medication administration are important goals.

FDA

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 16, 2025

A study of 439 patient charts found no significant difference in DTP identification between clinics with and without pharmacists on the care team. The integration of community-based specialty pharmacists into patient care models is crucial for enhancing treatment safety and efficacy.

Specialty Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JULY 12, 2025

As CBD’s popularity surges, ensuring hepatic safety becomes a core component of patient care. Pharmacy professionals are crucial in translating these findings into safe, informed CBD used: conducting risk assessments, guiding safe dosing practices, arranging liver monitoring, and liaising with prescribers. REFERENCES Minnerd J.

FDA

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 10, 2025

All graduates should be ready for this, as our present Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Standards explicitly states: "Ensure that graduating students are ‘practice-ready’ and ‘team-ready,’ that is, prepared to directly contribute to patient care working in collaboration with other health care providers."

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JULY 14, 2025

TRE-515 aims to extend patient lives and elevate current standards of care by combining radioligand therapy with novel drug approaches. SHOW MORE FDA fast-tracks TRE-515 for advanced prostate cancer, combining it with radiation therapy to enhance treatment outcomes and patient care.

FDA

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 13, 2025

The authors examined the safety, feasibility, and toxicity management of delivering both SUD and target doses in outpatient settings, offering institutional guidance for optimizing patient care and reducing hospitalization burden.

Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 22, 2025

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Patient Care

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 19, 2025

1 Biomarker testing is relatively new in the treatment landscape for NSCLC but has proven incredibly important for personalizing patient care, transforming from a generic chemotherapy approach to a highly personalized, genomically driven treatment strategy.

Chemotherapy

Pharmacy Times

JULY 29, 2025

1 Understanding these dynamics can be essential for pharmacy professionals, who rely heavily on published clinical research findings to inform decisions about therapeutics, drug policy, and patient care. This has practical consequences for patient care, policy development, and the evaluation of novel interventions.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Drug Topics

JUNE 7, 2025

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Vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 16, 2025

“We welcome today’s announcement which rightly aims to make the UK a leading hub for investment and innovation in lifesaving MedTech, an essential step if we are to improve patient care and cut down waiting times. Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights.

Packaging

Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 3, 2025

Calling such venues the “future of the health service”, Starmer said: “Hospitals will always be important, but disease has changed, and we must change with it. Not only can we do that, we can do it in a way that improves care and convenience for millions of people.” . “Without them, this vision simply won’t take hold.”

Health and Personal Care Stores

Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 29, 2025

Tariffs on medicines are a blunt instrument that will disrupt supply chains, impact on investment in research and development, and ultimately harm patient access to medicines on both sides of the Atlantic,” the trade body said in a statement. Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights.

Packaging

Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 3, 2025

Experts are emphasising that safeguarding patient data from corporations and cyberattacks is vital for the NHS to create a single health record database. The UK Government is pushing for a move towards a single, unified digital patient record within the NHS, aiming to improve patient care and streamline healthcare processes.

Packaging

Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 6, 2025

The latest lawsuits expand the focus to pharmacies producing unapproved compounded semaglutide drugs and telehealth companies improperly steering patient care to these drugs by utilising fake claims of personalisation. Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights.

Compounding

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Following discussions with NHS England, Great Western Hospitals (GWH) NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon became the pilot site for an exemplar sustainability project. Changing sheets Many UK hospitals change patient bedsheets daily. tonnes of CO2e emissions.

Hospitals

Omnicell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Toni Fera, Senior Consultant, Pharmacy Consulting International Ask any hospital pharmacist to list his or her number one priority, and they’re likely to say — “patient safety.” Yet this important medication safety step often gets omitted due to immediate patient care needs.

Omnicell

Omnicell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The 340B Drug Pricing Program enables safety-net providers—select hospitals, clinics, and health centers that serve a disproportionate share of poor patients in these urban and rural areas—to buy prescription drugs at discounted prices. hospitals, they provided 17.4 percent of all uncompensated care, or $6.7

Omnicell

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

RPS chief executive Paul Bennett said the proposed changes and Royal College status would provide the RPS with a robust foundation to champion the profession, support our members and advance patient care. A version of this article was originally published by our sister publication The Pharmacist.

Patient Care

Omnicell

MARCH 27, 2023

Ken Perez Vice President, Healthcare Policy and Government Affairs, Omnicell Nearly every hospital patient receives medications dispensed by pharmacy, and nearly every patient bill includes medications managed by pharmacy. Over the last 12 months, drug spend in the US totaled $576 billion. But automation alone is not enough.

Sterile Compounds

Omnicell

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ken Perez Vice President, Healthcare Policy and Government Affairs, Omnicell Nearly every hospital patient receives medications dispensed by pharmacy, and nearly every patient bill includes medications managed by pharmacy. Over the last 12 months, drug spend in the US totaled $576 billion. But automation alone is not enough.

Sterile Compounds

Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Tara Plappert Product Marketing Manager Hospitals and clinics face a significant challenge when dealing with controlled substances. In 2019, more than 148 million doses of medicine were lost , endangering both patients and employees. And according to the 2019 Drug Diversion Digest , 47.2

Controlled Substances

The FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

What factors should be considered to effectively institute patient care that includes home-based care? How can the FDA facilitate individuals accessing medical technologies in remote locations when they are unable or unwilling to access care in clinical settings? We previously blogged on the draft guidance here.

Documentation

IDStewardship

APRIL 13, 2023

BCPS, BCIDP Article Posted 14 April 2023 In 2014 CDC released the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (Core Elements) to help hospitals increase infection cure rates while reducing treatment failures, C. difficile infection, adverse effects, antibiotic resistance, hospital costs, and hospital length of stay.

Hospitals