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InfoLogix CEO David Guilan says FDA should be involved in encouraging hospitals to adopt barcode and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions to help prevent medication mix-ups such as occurred with actor Dennis Quaid's children at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
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The Pharmacist Services Technical Advisory Coalition (PSTAC) has obtained approval for permanent CPT codes for billing pharmacists' medication therapy management (MTM) services.
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Further proof of the importance of clinical services to hospital pharmacist care comes in research from the University of Illinois that found that clinical services remain essentially the same no matter how big a hospital is, even when there are differences based on hospital size on a number of workload and productivity measures.
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The American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP) says it has intensified its fight against what it sees as a costly and burdensome requirement that hospital outpatient departments report National Drug Code (NDC) numbers.
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Advances in drug therapy over the last few decades have revolutionized the management of many common disease states.
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Remote monitoring by trained telehealth care coordinators has improved the outcomes and saved costs for high-risk chronically ill patients in the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
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The Case Management Society of America (CMSA) has requested that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revise a recent ruling and make a number of care coordination services payable.
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Hospice managers have long suspected that their care both improves quality and saves payers money. Now there's a major research study of Medicare end-of-life patients that demonstrates that hospice care saves money for most end-of-life patients.
