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April 29, 2014
On April 21, we hosted a very successful and productive health information technology (HIT) meeting that brought together key government, industry, and association players to discuss delivery platforms and user best practices to maximize medication safety and promote enhanced patient care delivery…
April 25, 2014
Pharmacist provider status continues to gain momentum at the federal, state, and private sector levels. As many of you know, pharmacy had another recent state win with Wisconsin’s new provider status law. Passed with unanimous support from the Wisconsin State Legislature and signed into law by Gov…
April 18, 2014
Pharmacy has made progress on Capitol Hill, through federal agencies, and in states over the past decade. And our patients are beginning to see the benefits from the increased recognition of pharmacists’ services. Progress has been slow, in part because pharmacists went to the Hill divided, and we…
April 17, 2014
After years of work to get it right, to listen carefully to stakeholders, and to construct realistic standards that will make a difference in patient care, the window of opportunity is now open! Outpatient pharmacy practices in the community, hospitals, health systems, and clinics that have an…
April 15, 2014
Provider status was the talk of our Annual Meeting. It’s also gaining traction in Congress as eight cosponsors have now signed on to H.R. 4190, which was introduced by Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) on March 11.
We’re now publishing the initial set of Patient Access to Pharmacists’ Care Coalition…
April 14, 2014
The latest consumer media outlet to support pharmacists’ “potential for an expanded role as a key member of the healthcare team” is Forbes.com. On April 10, Forbes published an article, “Fixing Healthcare Can Be As Close As Your Neighborhood Pharmacy,” for which our staff provided results from APhA…
April 9, 2014
In case you missed it, Harvard Law School is singing the praises of pharmacists as members of the health care team. I commend to your reading our news article on Harvard Law School’s New Jersey PATHS report that shows pharmacists on diabetes care teams benefit patients. We are so pleased that the…
March 28, 2014
Greetings from the New Practitioner Advisory Committee (NPAC)! My name is Alison Knutson, a 2010 graduate coming to you from the balmy state of Minnesota. I am working as an ambulatory clinical pharmacist full-time in a family medicine clinic, dividing my time between providing MTM and medical…
March 26, 2014
As we pack up and head to Orlando for the APhA Annual Meeting, I received a nice note in my e-mail inbox from Lee Rucker, MSPH, former AARP policy expert and recipient of an APhA Honorary Membership in a few days. She pointed me to her March 24 blog post in Health Affairs, "March Madness:…
March 25, 2014
We’re encouraging folks to sign two new petitions in support of H.R. 4190 that have just been opened by APhA members Sandra Leal and Steve Soman. As you may already be aware, Reps. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), and Todd Young (R-IN) on March 11 introduced legislation that would…