Live at the HIMSS 2017 Conference in Orlando FL, an interesting interview with Ken Perez, Vice President of Healthcare Policy at Omnicell, Inc. 

Industry experts are predicting that a slow repeal of the ACA will have very little, if any, negative impact on healthcare technology. Healthcare technology grew at an unprecedented pace under the ACA, in part because the ACA contains provisions which provide healthcare technology with incentives to develop and implement new systems aimed at increasing efficiency.

Despite the significant amount of uncertainty with a slow repeal of the ACA for many players in the healthcare industry, healthcare technology appears to be poised for continued growth through value-based care, telemedicine, and the increased need for interoperability. 

About Ken Perez:

Ken Perez, in this hybrid role combining

Marketing Your MTM & Clinical Services

Dr. Blair Thielemier and Nicolle McClure discuss why it’s important to execute clinical and MTMs services in your independent pharmacy. We will discuss challenges of getting started and how to overcome them, give several marketing ideas, and review how offering these types of services can also be a new patient generator.

For those owners that are struggling performing these types of services, we will address the benefits of hiring an independent pharmacy consultant. At the end, we will touch on Blair’s Evaluate Pharmacy Virtual Summit event in April.  

Nicolle McClure

President - GRX Marketing 

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Honored to have the opportunity to interview Kristy Sobel, host of the Patient's Podcast, part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network. 

The Patient's Podcast - is where the Voice of the Patient is the most important Voice in Healthcare.

We talk with Kristy today about her own experiences suffering with excruciating chronic pain and how she copes and moves forward every day. Meeting your patient's "where they are" is about empathy. Being sincere and taking pause in your busy day is tremendously important to your patient's care. Every individual has their own story and their own feelings. Every patient is different and dealing with their health in a specific way. The care you provide must include your sincerity and understanding. 

Kristy Sobel has been a trail blazer as an entrepreneur for 20 + years. She found herself in need for something that did not exist. Kristy created multifunctional and fashionable purses designed for those with back and neck problems. She branch

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Managed Care / Health Policy / U of Minnesota

Today we're going to be talking with Ryan Cotten:

Ryan Cotten is a 4th year University of Minnesota PharmD student passionate about creating unique solutions by managing limited healthcare resources. Following his P2 year, he interned at ClearScript learning about clinical services and the PBM industry. After his P3 year, he was AMCP chapter president and led his team to the AMCP National P&T Competition. He was the lead author on a health policy research paper "Pricing History Analysis of Orphan Drugs (1983-2015)" which he presented at two national pharmacy conferences. He’s looking to work in a managed care pharmacy residency to further grow as a leader and practitioner.

1. Everyone’s leadership road is different, let’s start with where you are today, and how you got into your current po

The Pharmacy Podcast Network in collaboration with the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists has launched SenioRx Radio. The newest segment of the Pharmacy Podcast Network is designed to Empower pharmacists committed to promoting healthy aging through the appropriate use of medications for our senior populations.

The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) is the only international professional society devoted to optimal medication management and improved health outcomes for all older persons. Founded in 1969, ASCP is a non-profit membership organization currently based in Alexandria, VA.  

ASCP represents over 9,000 pharmacy professionals, including students, serving the unique medication needs of the senior population. Our members range in the services they provide and serve seniors in a variety of settings.

SIGN UP for the 2017 ASCP Forum 

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How to Meal Prep for Work, Stay Healthy, and ON-Track!

Today’s preparation determines tomorrow’s achievement- that’s about as simple as I can put this! If you go into work thinking you’ll “wing it”, 99.9999% of the time the only thing winging it will be your fitness plan flying right out the window with your good intentions.

(CHECK Yo-Self, before you WRECK Yo-Self!!) 

“But I don’t have time to plan out my meals- it takes so long!”“I don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen.”“I hate cooking.”“I tried out for ‘Worst Chefs in America’ and didn’t even make the cut- ugh!”Does this sound like you? Believe it or not, the vast majority of those who follow through on their fitness plan and stick with it agree with every one of those statements.

SO, what’s their secret? How do they persevere? TELL ME!!!Ok, ok- here we go!

1. Bulk Up

No, no- all you can eat buffets for breakfast lunch and dinner is NOT what I’m referring to here! Th

Dr. Erin Albert, PharmD, MBA, and Kristin Eilenberg, MBA, join Pharmacy Podcast Network founder Todd S. Eury to discuss the 2017 Annual HIMSS Conference in Orlando Florida. The 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, February 19–23, 2017 in Orlando, brought together 42,000+ health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. 

Show notes, blog post from Dr. Erin Albert:

Well, I’ve tried to absorb as much knowledge as I can before my head explodes at #HIMSS17 this week. It’s been a BLAST talking to so many rockstars of HIT and healthcare that I’m starstruck!

One of the coolest new methods of learning for me at the meeting was actually co-hosting at Intrepid Healthcare’s 

HIPAA Breaches & Desk Audits

What is a breach?

• In simple words, the loss of patient protected health information, either printed or electronic.

How common are breaches within pharmacies?

• There are two types of pharmacies and pharmacy owners,
• The first are the ones who know they have had a breach
• The later are the ones who have had a breach and don’t know about it

How can I have a breach and not know about it?

• Simple, has your pharmacy clerk ever given a patient another patient’s medication?
  • That is a breach

Can you give me examples of breaches?

• Pharmacy is robbed and the will call bin is stolen
• Pharmacy is robbed and the server is stolen
• Staff pharmacist has a laptop stolen
• Delivery driver has their vehicle stolen which is full of prescriptions to be delivered</

We welcome back David Harlow BS, Pharm. D.Chief Pharmacy Officer of Martin Health System. Dr. Harlow received his B.S. in Pharm in 1992 from the Medical College of Virginia and completed his Doctoral work at the University of Florida.

Professionally, Dr. Harlow joined the Martin Health System as the Chief Pharmacy Officer, coming from Carilion Clinic’s ACO as the Regional Director of Pharmacy Operations for Southwestern Virginia.

Additionally, Dr. Harlow is the executive officer of PharmaDym, a clinical pharmacy consulting firm. His experience also includes retail pharmacy ownership, home infusion and pharmacy benefit management.

The first step towards assigning more responsibility to pharmacists, and thus improving medication adherence, is to identify where your organization may be falling short in terms of adherence. A logical place to start is with chronic patients. This level of patient generally has a complicated medication regimen, which can reduce the cha

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Serving the Underserved

Christine Dimaculangan 

P4 at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network, I’m your cohost Tony Guerra for the PharmacyFutureLeaders podcast broadcasting from DMACC’s Ankeny Campus.

Connect with me on Twitter at Tony_PharmD or on YouTube at TonyPharmD where you can find over 700 pharmacy videos supporting my audiobook Memorizing Pharmacology and new book How to Pronounce Drug Names, both available on Amazon.

Today we're going to be talking with Christine Dimaculangan a P4 at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy who has specific interests in serving the underserved, community pharmacy, and public health. Welcome to the pharmacy podcast.

1. You are in a 0 – 6 program, so you had an early interest in health care,