As more community pharmacies offer direct healthcare services to patients, helping those patients choose the best option becomes critical. Having this ability accessible to all, ensures anyone can pick the right pharmacy for their specific needs.

Too often, the phrase “community pharmacy is at a crossroads” is used to describe the undue burden facing community pharmacies. The dispensing model is no longer viable on its own. Across the world, “AI” is coming for our jobs. Yet, community pharmacies are above a proverbial oil field. Data.

Seguridad developed a community pharmacy rating system currently in use at pharmacies across the country. It uses a collection of well-considered quality measures to calculate a letter grade easily understood by patients.

‍Pharmacy community health workers, and their clinical pharmacists, blend the best local flavor, trusted friendship, and clinical care, benefiting each patient. For healthcare to be efficacious and cost-effective, it must begin early. It needs to begin in the community and neighborhoods, brought to you by people who care.

Vaccines remain one of the most cost-effective methods for boosting healthcare. Community pharmacies, with the pharmacists and community health workers they employ, play important roles in closing any vaccine gaps.

Community pharmacies increasingly offer healthcare services to patients, especially in underserved regions. This provides them an opportunity to take part in various medical initiatives, including those related to brain health.

Encounter data versus dispensing data is a critical differentiation in today’s medical world. As healthcare professionals, we need to focus more on capturing encounter data.

In its simplest definition, deprescribing involves reducing the number of prescribed medications for a specific patient. The reasons for this reduction are numerous. Perhaps the patient no longer receives any benefit from a certain drug? In other cases, prescribing too many medications might even cause harm to the patient.

The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program aims to strengthen healthcare provided to rural regions across the United States. The federal government created this program to improve access to health services in these traditionally underserved areas.

The MOMS: Medications Optimizing Maternal Safety™ program aims to improve maternal-infant health in Mississippi. It achieves this goal by leveraging community pharmacies to expand care into the state’s regions lacking meaningful healthcare resources.