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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.

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How Do You Become an Anesthesiologist?  

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

These specialists work together with surgeons, surgical technologists, and other medical professionals to ensure patients are comfortable and healthy before, during, and after surgical procedures. Patient Care: Diagnosis Laboratory/Diagnostic Studies: 13-17% Diagnosis: 16-20% Prognosis/Outcome: 5-9% . USMLE Step 1.

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Celebrating National Pharmacist Day

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

January 12th is National Pharmacist Day, when we recognize the contribution that pharmacists have made–and continue to make–to patient care and our healthcare systems. Each year, patients fill hundreds of millions of prescriptions, keeping pharmacists busier than ever. Licensing boards for these specialties vary.

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The use of genomic profiling testing to improve oncology care

pharmaphorum

Reddy says one of LabCorp’s groundbreaking tests, OmniSeq INSIGHT, is an “all-in-one test that includes comprehensive genomics and immune profiling from a single tissue sample to identify all FDA-approved therapeutics, confirm immunotherapy eligibility for a patient, and identify appropriate nearby clinical trials.”.