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August 8, 2013
The evidence continues to mount. Pharmacies have untapped potential as a public health resource!
A study published online today in the August issue of the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs describes how pharmacies in New York City helped increase awareness and access to rapid HIV testing. This…
August 7, 2013
Recently, I received a job listing for the Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP). We get these ads from time to time as state exec positions turn over. I’ve had the privilege of knowing most, if not all, of the state execs in the United States over the last 25…
August 5, 2013
As you all know, immediately following the New England Compounding Center fungal meningitis outbreak last year, Congress began working to make sure nothing like that happens again. And so did APhA. Our profession works so hard to provide the best possible care and services to patients that we could…
July 19, 2013
News flash! Late Thursday afternoon, I received a text message from pharmacist Scott Giberson telling me that he had just been named Acting Deputy U.S. Surgeon General! In addition, RADM Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, has been named the Acting U.S. Surgeon General.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog…
July 9, 2013
When I speak with pharmacists around the country, I often encourage them to walk across the street and have a conversation with the larger physician practices in their communities. Increasingly, it’s these groups that are forming accountable care organizations (ACOs)—and to be effective, they will…
June 21, 2013
Members of the Pharmacy, Medical, Consumer and Regulatory Communities:
This week the American Medical Association House of Delegates adopted a resolution (Resolution 218) calling “inappropriate inquiries from pharmacies to verify the medical rationale behind prescriptions, diagnoses and treatment…
June 14, 2013
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, has announced she is stepping down next month. A friend of our profession who backed the monumental U.S. Public Health Service pharmacy report to the Surgeon General with a landmark letter of support, VADM Benjamin will be missed in her role as America…
June 7, 2013
There’s a great consumer article at Lifehacker that your patients, friends, family, and others might appreciate. If your pharmacy maintains a website and you can post info, this might not be a bad link to share.
We’re working hard on provider status for pharmacists, and soon, we’ll need consumer…
June 5, 2013
On June 4, I heard RADM Scott Giberson with the U.S. Public Health Service receive an award at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) 2013 Summer Meeting & Exhibition in Minneapolis. During his acceptance speech, he shared his “elevator speech” for promoting provider status…
June 4, 2013
We applaud and share in California pharmacists’ efforts on behalf of patient access to their services as the California state Senate approved its pharmacist provider status bill (SB 493) late last week, a significant step in becoming law. The legislation is now with the California State Assembly…