Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, MBA, is the executive director of CPESN USA, a clinically integrated network of more than 3500 participating pharmacies. He received his PharmD and MBA degrees from Drake University and a PhD in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy from the University of North Carolina. He has recently served on the board of directors for the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the American Pharmacists Association Foundation. He also proudly practiced in community pharmacies across the state of North Carolina for 17 years.
Have You Heard of "The Wave"? The University of Iowa Does It on a Grand Scale
October 1st 2018Stead Family Children’s Hospital was built on a tiny piece of real estate between the main campus of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) and Kinnick Stadium, home to the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a 2009 book written by Atul Gawande, a widely known and respected physician, who originally trained as a surgeon and has that special talent of bringing interesting takes to everyday life and work through analogies and storytelling.
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"Having a Pharmacist in Rural America Is Too Expensive." Seriously?
June 1st 2018I was having a conversation with a colleague and friend recently, and he mentioned that his group was planning on experimenting with remote order entry and medication verification so that pharmacies in rural areas could use a technician instead of a pharmacist to dispense medications.
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The Earth Is Shifting Under Our Feet: The World of Pharmacy Benefits Is Being Turned Upside Down
March 1st 2018US-based businesses and taxpayers have become increasingly frustrated with the double whammy of increasing spending on medications without the decreasing cost of care from a healthier population.
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Effective, Safe, and Worthy of Your Active Medication List
February 1st 2018Nonprescription medications play an essential role within the US health care system as a highly accessible, effective, and safe means by which to treat hundreds, if not thousands, of ailments, symptoms, and, in many circumstances, underlying conditions.
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We Are Perilously Close to Giving Up the Gift
October 25th 2017For a number of decades now there have been groups of pharmacists blessing, embracing, or in some instances, fully advocating for pharmacists to completely disassociate themselves as professionals from the act of dispensing a medication.
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