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New Technology Can Help Pharmacies Better Deliver Clinical Services

Drug Topics

This change is driven by a growing recognition that pharmacies can play a crucial role in closing patient care gaps and improving health outcomes. These services include immunizations, chronic disease management, and patient counseling.

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Passport to Protection: Best Practices for Travel Vaccines in the Pharmacy Setting

Drug Topics

The Immunization Action Coalition also has a travel vaccine section on its website with many resources. Depending on the pharmacy practice act for your state, you may or may not be able to provide all vaccinations recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The Immunization Action Coalition. REFERENCES 1.

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Dispensing Leadership: Be Easy to Do Business With

Drug Topics

Q&A: Workflow Changes Needed as Pharmacies Take on Clinical Roles | PQA 2025 Killian Meara ; Michael Hegener, PharmD, BCACP May 27th 2025 Article Michael Hegener, PharmD, BCACP, discusses what workflow changes are essential to support the expansion of patient care services in community pharmacies.

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Enhancing Patient Care and the Scope of Practice for Pharmacists, Student Pharmacists Through Immunizations During the Monkeypox Outbreak

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists and student pharmacists became the center of responding to the Monkeypox outbreak by providing immunizations to their communities.

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Pharmacists are Overworked, Frustrated, and Unintentionally Absent from Patient Care: It’s Time to Rightsize the Role

Pharmacy Times

Specialty pharmacists—those caring for patients with serious, sometimes life-threatening conditions such as cancer or rheumatologic disease—are not immune from the ongoing labor crisis.

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Provider Status and Digital Pharmacy: A Winning Combination for Patient Care and Labor Challenges

Omnicell

This would allow them to be reimbursed for providing more services like medication therapy management, immunizations, point of care testing, chronic disease management, and much more. Pharmacist provider status would align reimbursement with pharmacists' services and give underserved patients more access to crucial care.

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PQA Seeks Pharmacy and Payer Partners for Adult Immunization Pilots

PQA

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) seeks interested pharmacy and payer partners to participate in proof-of-concept pilots to implement and test high priority immunization pharmacy measure concepts. PQA has issued a request for interest (RFI) to gauge interest and willingness to participate in these pilots.