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Insulin Pens: Improving Adherence and Reducing Costs
The advantages offered by insulin pens may help improve patient adherence.
Scheduling Good Health: Pharmacists as Primary Immunizers
Pharmacists can play an important role in improving immunization rates.
Price vs Patient Access: Specialty's Unsettling Conundrum
As specialty medication costs rise, stakeholders seek to find a balance between cost containment and patient access.
Kitchen Table Consults: Shifting the Point of Care
In-home consultation programs provide one-on-one patient care.
The Business Case: Formal Adherence Service in the Community Pharmacy
A business model focused on medication synchronization can boost adherence and profits.
The Appointment-Based Model: A Catalyst for Expansion of Services
An efficient pharmacy system allows pharmacists the time to provide valuable patient care services.
Adherence-Aiding Solutions: Scalable, Meaningful, and Affordable
Health care organizations harness technology in their quest to boost medication adherence.
Patient Nonadherence: A Symptom, Not a Disease State
Prescription fill history may not tell the full story of patient nonadherence.
Informed Engagement: Unpacking and Addressing Patients' Reasons for Nonadherence
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the problem of medication nonadherence.
Patient Understanding: The Cornerstone of Medication Adherence
Low health literacy can be a major obstacle to the proper use of medications.
Pharmacy Work Flow: Improving Efficiency
Implementing a more efficient pharmacy system can have benefits for both patients and employees.
Promise or Peril? Collaboration in Pharmacy
Coordination of patient care is a key goal of the accountable care organization model.
Nonadherence Is a Nonstarter
Patient nonadherence to medication is a well-known problem plaguing health care. For this reason, many quality measures now focus on improving adherence.
Adherence Lessons from the Pharmacy Home Project
Each patient's experience with their medication(s) is unique, no matter how complex or simple the regimen.
