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The 1st Podcast about the Business & Profession of Pharmacy since 2009. A unified audio-blog of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy industry leaders, the Pharmacy Podcast Network is driven by excellence & an unrelenting commitment to the innovation of better patient care through pharmacy. 2.5M+ downloads, 30+ hosts, and ranked in the TOP 25 Podcasts in U.S. Business News.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Nailing Your Residency Interviews - the Luxe Pharmacist - PPN Episode 911
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Nailing Your Residency Interview is the third episode of The Luxe Pharmacist Residency Series. This episode is designed to cover all aspects of the interview process including areas like presentations and clinical assessments, the types of questions that are asked and overall advice on how to prepare. The episode ends with a fun Q&A section with questions submitted from listeners just like you! For additional residency interview information/resources please head to: theluxepharmacist.com
Friday Jan 03, 2020
The Medical Cannabis Debate | PART 1 - PPN Episode 910
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Today's Medical PotCast Episode features Joseph Friedman, R.Ph. MBA, is founding member and was a principal at Professional Dispensaries of Illinois, (PDI) Medical LLC. From the moment Illinois’ Medical Cannabis program was signed into law, he became deeply involved in the complex process of positioning himself as a medical expert on cannabis.
And Carla Lowe, is the founder of Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana (CALM). She has been a volunteer anti-drug activist since 1977. Carla co-founded Californians for Drug-Free Youth and Californians for Drug-Free Schools. In addition, she chaired the Nancy Reagan Speakers’ Bureau of the National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth. Lowe is a mother of five grown children, grandmother of nine, and former high-school teacher.
Carla states: "During my past 33 years as a volunteer anti-drug activist, I have been involved in non-profit 501 (C) (3) organizations, several that I started A non-profit group is limited by law as to its political expenditures. We could not lobby openly against any marijuana legislation. In 1979, I think, I heard Keith Stroup, new director of NORML (National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws) say that in their quest to see smoked marijuana become legal around the country, it would first need to be accepted as a “medicine,” that this would be the “red herring” necessary to give it a good name among the public."
Reference Material:
MARIJUANA: MAN-MADE DISASTER
//www.dfaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AALM.MANMADE.DISASTER.pdf
Contact for Carla Lowe
Email: CarlaDLowe@aol.com
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Ghada Abukuwaik, RPh - Leader in Medication Adherence - PPN Episode 909
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
RxSafe Podcast Series:
From the NCPA Innovation Center:
Ghada Abukuwaik, RPh, of Curemed Pharmacy in Clifton, N.J., was honored with the 2019 NCPA Innovation Center Outstanding Adherence Practitioner Award in recognition of her commitment to improving medication adherence. The award is sponsored by RxSafe and was presented at the National Community Pharmacists Association's 2019 Annual Convention in San Diego.
"Though critical to outcomes and to containing costs, medication adherence can be a highly personal matter," said NCPA President Bill Osborn, PharmD. "Ghada Abukuwaik and the team at Curemed Pharmacy are taking a multifaceted approach to improving adherence and patient health, leaving no stone unturned. I am proud to recognize Ghada for such successful, inspiring work in engaging patients and helping them manage their medications."
Abukuwaik and Curemed Pharmacy began providing medication synchronization services in 2015, a program now described as core to the pharmacy's practice. 424 patients are currently enrolled in the med sync program and their adherence measure rates are well above 80 percent, the industry standard. Fifty-three percent of patients are utilizing blister and bubble packs, with the pharmacy aiming to provide 100 percent compliance packaging to med sync patients in the next two years. Beginning in December 2018, the pharmacy began offering annual consulting and educational home visits to med sync patients, reaching 73 percent of patients on the initial round of visits.
Abukuwaik and Curemed Pharmacy also have a well-established diabetes education program that has helped patients decrease doses of diabetes and blood pressure medications, decrease the number of medications, and even stop medications for pre-diabetes patients. They utilize an Rx Local application that allows the pharmacy team to contact patients in a HIPAA-approved platform, giving patients another means to send for refills, set up reminders, manage care, and update their information. The pharmacy also prioritizes communicating with health care colleagues, regularly communicating with physicians with updates on patients.
Curemed Pharmacy's patient health is improving as a result of these and other tools, with their sync population having a mere 2.4 percent hospitalization rate.
"It's my distinct honor and privilege to join the NCPA Innovation Center in recognizing Ghada Abukuwaik as recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Adherence Practitioner Award," said RxSafe President and CEO, William Holmes. "Ghada exemplifies how independent community pharmacists can use technology to have a huge impact on improving patient health and safety, and enable millions of Americans to live independently and productively for years to come."
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Future Proof Pharmacy with Harry Travis - PPN Episode 908
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
The original host of the Specialty Pharmacy Podcast and a frequent guest on the Pharmacy Podcast Network, Harry Travis joins Todd Eury on FutureDose.tech discussing how to "Future Proof Pharmacy".
Harry J. Travis is a senior healthcare executive with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of pharmaceutical distribution channel management. This includes multibillion-dollar specialty and non-specialty pharmacy operations, health plan pharmacy benefit design and pharmaceutical wholesale operations. Currently, Mr. Travis is the President and CEO of etectRx, Inc. etectRx has developed an innovative digital pill system that incorporates a tiny ingestible sensor into a capsule, which transmits a signal to a wearable reader and then to a smartphone-based app and secure cloud-based server to reliably and safely indicate when a patient has taken their medicine.
Mr. Travis has held senior leadership positions with Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Accredo/Medco and Aetna where he served as the VP of Aetna’s Specialty and Home-Delivery Pharmacy Business. He is a nationally known speaker on the topic of the disruptive impact of digital technologies on the practice and business of pharmacy.
He holds a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy and an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia.
//etectrx.com/team/harry-j-travis/
Friday Dec 27, 2019
Friday Dec 27, 2019
Joyce A. DeLair sits down with her son, Todd S. Eury Founder of the first podcast about the Business and Profession of Pharmacy, the Pharmacy Podcast. We share our lessons learned in life and what we can learn about our strengths within ourselves from our parents.
I dedicated this episode to my Mom. My very first audience.
Thanks Mom for your encouragement and belief in me.
Your second (& favorite) son,
Todd
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Part Two of the PBM Reform Podcast Series features an interview with Monique Whitney, the Excutive Director of Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT).
Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) is a non-profit advocacy organization founded by independent pharmacists and pharmacy owners devoted to exposing the truth about the anti-competitive tactics of pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs). Known to most Americans as their "prescription drug benefit plan" provider, PBMs are in reality a $300 billion industry - giant corporate middlemen driving up the cost of medications with huge mark ups and commissions on every prescription covered under their "benefits plan."
Working with local and national traditional and digital media that includes The New York Times, USA Today, CBS News, Bloomberg, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Business Insider, PUTT seeks to educate patients, lawmakers, health plan sponsors and the public about the deeply negative effects of the PBM industry on U.S. healthcare and the escalating price of prescription medications.
PUTT serves as an industry watchdog, collecting evidence of PBM fraudulent practices and abuse and using this information to educate and inform consumers, taxpayers, employers and health plan sponsors of the truth about the unregulated, unmonitored PBM industry. Through PUTT's efforts, PBMs have begun to experience greater public awareness and scrutiny of their actions and come under fire for questionable practices including the use of gag clauses at the pharmacy counter, gross over-billing of health plans (called "spread pricing"), forcing patients to use PBM-owned pharmacies instead of allowing patients to choose their own pharmacies and interjecting unnecessary bureaucratic practices such as prior authorizations between patients and their doctors in the matter of prescription refills.
Monique Whitney
Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency
Monique@TruthRx.org
m. (505) 480-4150
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Why Every Tech Company in Pharmacy needs a Pharmacist - PPN Episode 905
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Timothy Aungst, PharmD, the Digital Apothecary shares his views on "Why every tech company needs a pharmacist on staff."
Learn more about Tim here:
//www.thedigitalapothecary.com/biography
This episode was sponsored by the California Pharmacist Association WPE 2020
//cpha.com/cphaevents/wpe/
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Pharmacy Technician Professional Career Development - PPN Episode 904
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
NHA’s national pharmacy technician advisory board members are industry leaders that represent all facets of the pharmacy workforce. This episode of OnScript with NHA shares insights from within both the community retail and health system pharmacy environments related to the expanded scope of practice.
Co-hosts Jeremy Sasser and Jessica Langley discuss with these industry leaders key trends impacting the profession, such as professional development and career laddering opportunities. The discussion highlights the importance of elevating the roles of both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in tandem for the purpose of taking better care of patients. All members of the team need to have shared goals associated with improving health outcomes, improving practice safety and medication use process in order to help the team work more effectively.
CONTACT NHA:
Jeremy Sasser
Pharmacy Content Strategist
NATIONAL HEALTHCAREER ASSOCIATION
nhanow.com
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
ASHP Midyear 2019 Summary - PPN Episode 903
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
The Pharmacy Podcast Network in collaboration with RXVIP Concierge Pharmacist attended the 2019 ASHP Midyear Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas on December 8–12, 2019.
Special Interviews include:
- RxSafe - Bill Holmes
- RxDestroyer - Jordan Brown
- Micro Merchant Systems - Brian Courtney PharmD
- Brianne Weiss - RXVIP Concierge Pharmacist
- Ray Castro - Swisslog
Special shoutouts to:
- Sterlin Haydon-Greatting, MS-MPH, RPh
- Aaron Huet - McKesson Technology & Services
- Tony Guerra PharmD - Pharmacy Resident Podcast
- Adam Baillio PharmD - Integrated Pharmacist Podcast
- Robert Clifton Jr. - Novartis
- Ray Vega - Pfizer
- Ken Sternfeld RPh - RXVIP Concierge Pharmacist
About ASHP Midyear:
The ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting is the largest gathering of pharmacists in the world. The hundreds of educational activities at the Midyear Clinical Meeting are developed to maintain and enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of pharmacists and associated personnel in health systems.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
PBM Reform Series Part One: NCPA INSIGHTS - PPN Episode 902
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Anne Cassity Vice President, Federal and State Government Affairs at National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) joins Todd Eury, CEO of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, on part one of the new series:
PBM Reform Podcast Series
Pharmacy benefit managers were created as middlemen to reduce administrative costs for insurers, validate a patient’s eligibility, administer plan benefits, and negotiate costs between pharmacies and health plans. Over time, PBMs have been allowed to operate virtually unchecked. A lack of transparency in PBM practices has led several states to implement licensure/registration, fair pharmacy audit, or generic drug pricing legislation to try to level the playing field for pharmacies and patients.
NCPA: //www.ncpanet.org/advocacy/state-advocacy/pbm-reform