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'We do see healthcare organizations and health plans making moves'. The lion's share of medical identity theft victims can expect to pay upwards of $13,500 to resolve the crime. What's more, about 50 percent of consumers say they would find another healthcare provider if they were concerned about the security of their medical records.

A Florida hospital physician group is launching an mHealth platform to enhance care and treatment for Medicare patients.... they will employ a mobile chronic management platform, by Smartlink Mobile Systems, focused on helping providers meet Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' requirements for chronic care management.

Heather Bonome, PharmD, director of Pharmacy Segment at URAC, discusses how accreditation programs can enhance health care overall. This video was recorded courtesy of Armada Health Care at the 2015 Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.

When I was doing my professional rotations, the hospital outpatient pharmacy didn’t charge medical residents for prescriptions. This led to the unconscionable practice of male prescribers writing oral contraceptives for themselves and giving them to their wives and girlfriends. I viewed this as completely unethical, but since I was an intern and had no say in the matter, I begrudgingly went along with it.

.....the skill sets that contemporary community pharmacists need to routinely and effectively provide CMM services in today’s health care system include current and comprehensive therapeutic knowledge (the foundation for all other skills), critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, interpersonal communication (verbal and written), teamwork (collaboration with other providers), motivational interviewing, health coaching, and documentation skills.

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association today released a new ad campaign in New York — "I'm Not Willing to Send My Patients to Just Any Pharmacy" — highlighting a new survey of specialty physicians in New York that finds only two percent think all drugstores have the "expertise and capability" to provide specialty medications to patients.

A new bill introduced in the US Senate would permit pharmacists to dispense birth control pills without a prescription.

When pharmacists graduate from pharmacy school, their goals are to improve patient outcomes, create world-class customer service, and make lives better. But, over time, those goals morph into not getting fined, sued, or fired.  What happened to professional judgment and common sense?

All-day nausea in the first trimester certainly didn't help my compounding in the kitchen effort. I found myself feeling miserable and convinced that somehow I was being punished for loving food so much. These past few months, my go-to food has been similar to what you would find in a preschooler’s lunch bag: juice boxes, graham crackers, and fruit snacks.

"The pharmacy is not just for ‘picking up prescriptions,’" explained Ray Bullman, Executive Vice President of the National Council on Patient Information and Education. "Consumers are often unaware of the many patient care services that pharmacists can provide to address appropriate medication use through medication therapy management, prevention, and wellness services such as immunizations and smoking cessation."