- Pharmacies Hosted at Workplaces Increase Medication Adherence (pharmacytimes.com)
Employers with onsite pharmacies are seeing a return on investment in the form of increased medication adherence among their health plan members…Onsite pharmacies provide employees with a convenient option for filling discounted prescriptions that is integrated with other employer-sponsored wellness programs. These onsite initiatives aim to contain employers’ health care expenditures while supporting healthy lifestyles and increasing productivity across health plan members.
- Smith’s Looking to Hire Veterans for Local Stores (kolotv.com)
Smith's stores will hold open interviews Tuesday, September 15, for all veterans and their family members, looking to fill about 250 positions in its area stores (Reno). Nationwide, The Kroger Co. is hiring to fill an estimated 20,000 permanent positions in its supermarket divisions.
- Manufacturers: The Government Wants to Use 340B to Oversee and Publish Your Specialty Channel Strategy (drugchannels.net)340B Drug Pricing Program Omnibus Guidance (federalregister.gov)
Attention, proles! ...Health Resources and Services Administration has released its long-awaited Omnibus Guidance for the 340B Drug Pricing Program…guidance brings some much-needed clarity to the definition of an eligible patient...duplicate discounts…diversion…covered entities audit and monitor contract pharmacies…Unfortunately, HRSA has granted itself intrusive oversight for what it calls "limited distribution plans." Under the guise of auditing manufacturer compliance,…is asserting novel and impractical review and approval authority over manufacturers' channel strategies… every manufacturer is expected to have its channel strategies reviewed and then published…Watch out!
- Ways Smoking Cessation Can Improve Patient Health and Manage Chronic Conditions (pharmacytimes.com)
Lisa Kroon, PharmD, CDE, professor and department chairperson of clinical pharmacy at University of California, San Francisco, School of Pharmacy, talks about some ways smoking cessation can improve patient health and manage chronic conditions.
- Biggest Roadblocks to Managing COPD (pharmacytimes.com)
Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses the biggest roadblocks to managing COPD and how pharmacists can help overcome those challenges.
- NCPA rolls out online community lab testing platform (drugstorenews.com)
National Community Pharmacists Association…announced that it will collaborate with consumer-direct lab testing innovator, Ulta Lab Tests, to roll out an online community lab testing platform to participating community pharmacy members across the country. The arrangement will offer community pharmacy patients direct access to lab tests and health screenings...customers can order select low-priced lab tests without the need to obtain a prescription from a local physician…then can easily access lab test information…review and track their test results for each biomarker from their personal and secured dashboard at their convenience.
- Polypharmacy in Elderly Patients: A Pervasive Problem (pharmacytimes.com)
Because current health care practice focuses on diagnosing and prescribing, the need to taper, reduce, or discontinue inappropriate medication therapy receives relatively little attention. Few clinical guidelines cover drug deprescribing, and this lack of evidence-based direction contributes to prescribers’ hesitancy or reluctance to touch treatment regimens that may have originated from a different practice setting. But failure to deprescribe medications that are contributing to adverse side effects can have serious consequences,...
- October is American Pharmacists Month – Goal of American Pharmacist Month (APhM) (pharmacist.com)
APhM is celebrated annually during October and serves to promote pharmacists as medication experts, an integral member of the health care team, and directly involved in patient care. APhM aims to educate the public, policy makers and other health care professionals about the role pharmacists play in the reduction of overall health care costs and the safe and effective management of medications. Pharmacists have a significant role in assessing patients’ medication management in patients and referring them to physicians.s a time to educate your patients, motivate your staff, and engage and inspire your community to "Know Your Pharmacists, Know Your Medicine."
- Rite Aid dedicates $1.3 million to Folds of Honor (drugstorenews.com)
During the month of September, Rite Aid associates nationwide will honor 274 students who have been named recipients of Folds of Honor educational scholarships provided by the Rite Aid Foundation’s KidCents program…Folds of Honor,..dedicated to providing educational scholarships to children of fallen or disabled veterans…
- Potential Barriers to Inhaled Insulin (pharmacytimes.com)
Jessica Kerr, PharmD, CDE, and assistant department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville discusses potential barriers to inhaled insulin, like Afrezza.