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Prescribing Success: Dr. Linda Gutierrez-Miller’s Journey to Impactful Clinical Pharmacy and Inspiring Resilience!

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

Versatility in Pharmacy Clinical pharmacists occupy a distinctive position, often granted patient care privileges that allow them to engage in comprehensive medication decision-making functions as integral members of the healthcare team. ¹

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New Year’s Resolutions Trends: What Doctors Resolve To Do

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Under the guise of a new year’s resolution, some clinicians take the opportunity to remind influencers and stakeholders of efforts that need to be redoubled for the benefit of patients and patient care. It includes ensuring that office functions like scheduling are streamlined to make it easy for patients to get in the door.

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How Pharmacists Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Advance Their Practice: Insights From ChatGPT

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Streamlined Prescription Filling : AI systems can automate prescription filling processes by extracting relevant information from electronic prescriptions, verifying insurance coverage, and generating labels. This reduces manual errors, saves time, and allows pharmacists to focus on patient care.

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How the US’s pending PIE Act will improve patient access to medication

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In 2018, the FDA released guidance permitting PIE, but Mathieu says there was a lack of clarity around the information that could be shared with a payer or insurer. They are primarily AMCP’s members – pharmacists serving on P&T committees or formulary decision-makers within an insurer or payer,” says Mathieu.

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How to help patients with prior authorization

The Checkup by Singlecare

Many patients arrive at the pharmacy ready to pick up their medication only to find out their prescription needs prior authorization , which can lead to frustration and confusion. Insurance companies use prior authorization to manage costs and ensure a procedure or medication is safe and appropriate for a patient.

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Microsoft puts AI at heart of digital health strategy with Nuance deal

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billion deal to buy Nuance Communications and its artificial intelligence platform for speech recognition that is increasingly being used for clinical applications. . Meanwhile, in the US telehealth startup Zipnosis has been bought by insurance company Bright Health Group.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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In addition, the guideline has been misapplied to cancer and palliative care patients, and there have been rapid opioid tapers without patient collaboration, rigid application of opioid dosage thresholds, application of opioid use for pain to opioid use disorder treatment, insurer and pharmacy duration limits, patient dismissals and abandonment.