Innovations in Reimbursement

Pharmacists Branching Out into New Models of Patient Care

LAST APRIL, THE PHARMACY DIRECTOR of a large, multi-hospital health system in the Midwest phoned Gloria Sachdev, Pharm.D., clinical assistant ... [read more]
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Sep 06, 2012

Foundation’s Visiting Leaders Program Links Past to Future

Pharmacy Leaders Offer Wisdom, Experience to Residents

Although John Darnell, Pharm.D., is just embarking on his pharmacy career, he already can see how easy it would be, a few years down the road, to ... [read more]
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Jun 28, 2012

Is Prescribing the Next Step in the Evolution of Pharmacy?

Pharmacists in Three States Already Successfully Doing It

Ernest Dole, Pharm.D., PhC, BCPS, FASHP, a pharmacist clinician at the Pain Consultation and Treatment Center of the University of New Mexico ... [read more]
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May 15, 2012

The Next Frontier: Pharmacy and the Emerging Sciences

Individualized Drug Therapy Offers Exciting New Opportunities

  A pharmacist discovered the mistake, and it was a big one. Gone unnoticed, the error would have corrupted an entire clinical trial. The ... [read more]
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Mar 28, 2012

Children’s New Pharmacy Model a Resounding Success

Decentralized Pharmacy, Expanded Use of Technology and Technicians Work

In 1998, Richard Sakai, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP, became the director of pharmacy service at the 358-bed Children’s Hospital Central California ... [read more]
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Mar 28, 2012

UW Health Goes the Extra Mile to Prevent Venous Thromboembolisms

Anticoagulation Program Earns Team ASHP Foundation Award

Numbers alone rarely tell the whole story, but for the University of Wisconsin (UW) Health in Madison, they offer a tantalizing glimpse of a ... [read more]
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Mar 28, 2012