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August 11, 2011
The New York Times website has a flow chart and other charts that simplify and bring some semblance of understanding to the various plans that were considered and what the upcoming stages are in the budget discussions. What happens over the next few months is extremely important to pharmacy because…
August 9, 2011
The Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative was formed by nine national pharmacy organizations and has grown to include others. We continue the work of getting pharmacists access to and “functional use” of electronic health records (EHR).
The most important thing practicing…
August 1, 2011
APhA held our 15th annual Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) on the weekend of July 15–17. In May, I met with the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA–ASP) National Executive Committee, and they asked me, “What can student pharmacists do for the profession?” Share your stories, I said. And lead…
July 18, 2011
Our own Mariam Bederu, a graphic designer on staff here, recently interviewed me for her business class assignment on entrepreneurship. The following thoughts are adapted from those I shared with her.
In this country, you don’t need a license or permission to be entrepreneurial. And you don’t…
July 18, 2011
As a follow-up to my earlier post about APhA’s medicinal garden, we’re pleased to share this photo of APhA President Marialice Bennett (right) with Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich (left) and Amy Bennett from the Ohio Pharmacists Association (middle) at the governor’s residence on the occasion of an…
July 13, 2011
For about 159 years, APhA has held open membership elections to determine who leads the organization. Members either self-nominate for President-elect and Trustees positions or are nominated by another member in the case of Honorary President. The nominating committee, appointed by the APhA…
July 7, 2011
We’ve previously reported on the various awards that our APhA headquarters building has received in the past, but now the garden on the west side of the building has received some accolades of its own.
A botanist blogger named Kate was walking by our building and noticed the medicinal plants in our…
July 6, 2011
As discussed at a recent Board of Trustees meeting, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates met last month in Chicago and passed a resolution aimed at evaluating pharmacists’ scope of practice issues. APhA spearheaded a joint comment letter that nine other pharmacy organizations…
June 29, 2011
Politico and other news outlets are reporting that judges for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over districts in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, have ruled in favor of the “personal mandate” contained in the Affordable Care Act. That mandate is considered to be a…
June 21, 2011
We lost a friend on June 8 when Larry Border passed away. Larry was a pharmacist who graduated from the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and served in the West Virginia Legislature for more than 2 decades. He was instrumental in that state’s Pharmacy Practice Act rewrite a few years ago…