pharmaphorum

AUGUST 11, 2022

Hospital facilities will be able to improve the quality of care for patients with malnutrition and reduce hospital stays and costs by leveraging a new measure developed by our policy specialist consultants at Avalere Health and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Avalere Health joined Fishawack Health in June 2022.

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Proxsys Rx

APRIL 4, 2024

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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Proxsys Rx

AUGUST 22, 2023

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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Proxsys Rx

JULY 5, 2023

On June 12, ProxsysRx opened its pharmacy in Holyoke Medical Center — a 198-bed independent community hospital in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It’s a still-unfinished process that began when we reached our agreement with HMC in March, 2022. And, of course, I talked to staff on all the units we’d likely be serving. “I

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The burden was chiefly driven by direct costs like medicinal products, inpatient and outpatient hospital visits and home healthcare, as well as mortality costs, calculated at $130,000 per year lost. — Chiesi Group (@ChiesiGroup) February 28, 2022. Let’s prove that we are stronger together! pic.twitter.com/KHyhswxezm.

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Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The NHC commends CMS for its continued efforts to expand the transparency of hospital pricing and to increase access to diagnostic tools in the 2024 OPPS. For instance, one study published in January 2023 found various transparency levels for commercial prices across hospitals. Our specific comments are included below.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most hospitals require their Internal Medicine physicians to be initially board certified, as well as to be recertified every ten years. The 2023 IM-ITE® is available from Thursday, August 17, 2023, to Wednesday, September 6, 2022, excluding Labor Day. What is the Internal Medicine Board Exam? Use a Question Bank.

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Proxsys Rx

DECEMBER 22, 2023

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

NPs and PAs: An Increase in Providers The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) reports that as of April 2022, there are more than 355,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) licensed to practice in the United States. Nurse practitioners practice in a broad cross section of healthcare environments. between 2012 and 2015.

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The Luxe Pharmacist

APRIL 27, 2022

I always hoped I would land an inpatient pharmacy intern job but it never happened, at the time I was very frustrated and down that others in my class had one and I didn’t but in the end that was okay and everything happened for a reason. I covered various inpatient floors form internal medicine to the medical ICU.

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Proxsys Rx

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To date, we’ve published a dozen posts either detailing, or mentioning-in-passing, the clinical and financial benefits a well-run Meds To Beds program offers hospitals and the patients they serve. In 2022 alone, TMH’s 710+ physicians, and its medical staff, saw 31,190 inpatient admissions. Three stories in as many days.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In December 2022 the AID-ICU trial was published in New England Journal of Medicine. The primary outcome was the number of days alive and out of the hospital at 90 days after randomization. This analysis found that although the 95% confidence interval for the primary outcome of days alive and out of hospital to day 90 was -1.1

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In December 2022 the AID-ICU trial was published in New England Journal of Medicine. The primary outcome was the number of days alive and out of the hospital at 90 days after randomization. This analysis found that although the 95% confidence interval for the primary outcome of days alive and out of hospital to day 90 was -1.1

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Pulses

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The practice of inpatient and ambulatory care pharmacy was everywhere. Was I drawn to inpatient care because of repeated exposure? There are 162 accredited community-based PGY1 pharmacy residency programs as of April 2022. Accessed April 25, 2022. All were seemingly residency trained and worked in a health system.

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Proxsys Rx

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

To date, we’ve published a dozen posts either detailing, or mentioning-in-passing, the clinical and financial benefits a well-run Meds To Beds program offers hospitals and the patients they serve. In 2022 alone, TMH’s 710+ physicians, and its medical staff, saw 31,190 inpatient admissions. Three stories in as many days.

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RX Note

MARCH 6, 2023

Some Common Complaints Often, pharmacy is the last station that a patient would end their hospital visit with. Main strategies should include To create more outpatient pharmacies at a hospital , with each catering for one or few subdisciplines, aiming to dilute the patient crowd.

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Express Pharma

MAY 15, 2024

The future of healthcare is everywhere: Consumers expect seamless, omnichannel care experiences that extend beyond traditional hospital settings. Integrated care will become the new standard: Consumers demand a single touchpoint to manage their health and are open to new specialty care models and curated customer journeys.

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ID Stewardship

APRIL 13, 2023

BCPS, BCIDP Article Posted 14 April 2023 In 2014 CDC released the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (Core Elements) to help hospitals increase infection cure rates while reducing treatment failures, C. difficile infection, adverse effects, antibiotic resistance, hospital costs, and hospital length of stay.

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 26, 2025

A group of authors has published in JAMA a systematic review and noninferiority meta-analysis to combine data from a large new trial with those identified in a 2022 meta-analysis. The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest. The primary outcome was 90-day all-cause mortality.

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PharmD Live

MARCH 30, 2022

Discussing what was going on with a pharmacist may have identified a complication earlier and prevented the patient’s hospitalization and death later that day. These include improved patient adherence to medication therapy, decreased hospitalizations and ER visits, and increased efficiency in the daily clinical practice. Schurrer, J.,

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 8, 2024

To address the underlying causes of shortages, the White Paper suggests that the creation (by Congress) of two programs that link inpatient hospital purchasing and payment decisions to supply chain resilience practices would better incentivize investments in mature manufacturing practices.

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The Physician Pharmacist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He followed that up with three years of internal medicine training at a large hospital in Pennsylvania, and spent another two years in a grueling infectious disease fellowship at the renowned UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, all during a global pandemic. So it was a big hospital pharmacy. Nathan Gartland I love that.

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Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By incorporating these measures into both inpatient and outpatient quality reporting, CMS is promoting a more equitable health care system and ensuring that interventions are targeted to reduce health disparities. 1 This expansion will enable health care providers to identify at-risk populations and develop targeted interventions.

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Putting Patients First Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Medical Debt Relief The NHC supports CMS’ proposal to allow Certified Application Counselors (CACs) at hospitals and other providers to assist patients in enrolling in programs aimed at alleviating medical debt. November 2022. link] Org/PhRMA-Refresh/Report-PDFs/G-I/IQVIA-Report-High-OOP-for-Brand-Medicines_November- 2022.pdf.

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RX Note

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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ID Stewardship

AUGUST 11, 2024

Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients. Readings Coping with ‘the grey area’ of antibiotic prescribing: a theory-informed qualitative study exploring family physician perspectives on antibiotic prescribing. BMC Primary Care. Cochrane Review 2017.

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