The Clinical Compass
What is Polypharmacy and Why does it Matter?
When a patient is regularly taking multiple medications, extra care is required to ensure their efficacy. It’s a complex situation faced by doctors and other care providers, including pharmacists. The term for this increasingly common issue is known as polypharmacy.
Community Pharmacists are helping Patients with CGM
CGM is another area where community pharmacies and the pharmacists they employ are making a positive impact. Within healthcare deserts in rural regions, finding primary care providers to manage CGM treatment becomes difficult. As such, community pharmacists again fill a critical healthcare need by providing CGM devices and treatment supervision.
The Differences between Pharmacy Dispensing Data and Encounter Data
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.
A Closer Look at Deprescribing
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.