"No amount of money will be enough to make up for the time lost studying for a retake, or come close to repairing the emotional and professional toll it has had on those affected." --David Dent bit.ly/3VgTIfH #TwitteRx Michael DePeau-Wilson

🚨PROVIDER STATUS ALERT🚨 Guidance from U.S. Office of Personnel Management says health plans contracted w/ them for federal employees must reimburse #pharmacists for patient assessment & prescribing of Paxlovid! Another win for patient access to care! #TwitteRx opm.gov/healthcare-ins…

Cerebral really out here using Destiny Bond 😬 dea.gov/press-releases…

I don’t think a pharmacist worked at that pharmacy: We all have to pass the MPJE and the first thing they cover is when a prescription is valid. 1.) bona-fide provider-patient relationships 2.) controlled meds max quantities. Cerebral fainted & brought Truepill with it!

thenation.com/article/politi… "Unlike ads for prescription drugs, insurance companies are not required by law to mention the side effects on patients, but Americans deserve to know about the many disadvantages of Medicare Advantage...unlike real Medicare, doctors often must..."

Epic and Microsoft are partnering to introduce GPT4 into Epic But the tech won’t be there to aid in diagnosing—it’ll be there to improve workflow! I truly believe GPT’s greatest potential is in streamlining the grossly inefficient clinical and non clinical workflows

2. Hospitals posted record margins during pandemic axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiosvitals

Vertical integration drives up healthcare costs

CareEx: How taking care of your healthcare workforce is more vital to accomplish the "triple aim". If you can't keep clinician's happy, how can you provide quality care? Great story read in Healthcare Huddle 💌 careops.org/post/careex-en…

PBM Reform is coming and it looks promising open.substack.com/pub/wendellpot…

📸 1 gram vials club 📸 Can you think of others who are part of this team? Any antimicrobial counts! Try to think drug class by drug class to go through the list… …as a pharm tech for years I never knew it would help so much later on to know about vial sizes and pharmacy

Little migraine board action: 🧠Don't forget about mag, easy intervention (PO or IV) with minimal ADRs 🧠Infuse Mg @ 1 g/hr Other non-pharm tx include aromatherapy if tolerated, hot bath/shower, sleep, accupuncture. Any others? PMID: 37542624 #twitterx #emergencymedicine

The barrier to utilizing scientifically proven, clinically beneficial healthcare technology should not be how will it be paid for... but of course it is. Learn more here - 1 big thing: Paying for digital therapies axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiosvitals

Healthcare is evolving, and Direct Primary Care (DPC) is at the forefront of this transformation. Imagine a world where primary care physicians say goodbye to insurance complexities.

PRICE TRANSPARENCY UPDATE GOING INTO EFFECT JULY 1st 2024 - This is a must read if you're someone who will ever seek hospital care and wants to know your federally protected right to knowing the general cost of procedures BEFORE hospitalization HFMA hfma.org/price-transpar…

Doximity launched Doximity GPT You hear that? Is that our admin time decreasing in the future? Next step is integrating all of this into EHRs... but I just can't see it right now, especially for Epic which takes 15 seconds to process anything.

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And we wonder why healthcare costs - specifically direct patient medication costs. The only solution has been Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamps will probably help tackle it further. Vertical integration needs to end, first.

NEW: Going to the pharmacy sucks now, so pharmacists are unionizing. This fall, they walked out of stores nationwide in a strike they called Pharmageddon. They’re sick of being overworked, understaffed, and forced to put your life in danger. And now they’re demanding better.

I don’t think there’s ever been a more important video in Pharmacys history to reshare with EVERYONE in and out of YOUR network. It explains why PBMs and greed within the business of pharmacy has ruined the profession… and why we need all of pharmacy to come together now.