Expert Interviews

Community pharmacies redesign workflows to address insurance barriers and deliver safer, gender-affirming care.

As clinical roles expand, the need for robust pharmacy infrastructure to streamline workflows and ensure medication access has never been more critical.

AI reshapes everyday tasks in the community pharmacy from refill automation to documentation.

The Age-Friendly Pharmacy certification and the 4Ms reshape senior care, teamwork, and deprescribing by putting the patient in the center of care.

With insights from executives working around the clock to advance the pharmacy profession, our experts predicted what the landscape will look like following the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026.

Featuring pharmacist and entrepreneur Sam Maddula, PharmD, this episode explores some key legislative and regulatory insights regarding owning and operating a pharmacy business.

Pharmacies can build clinical workflows, bill like providers, and get paid for MTM and test-and-treat services patients value.

In part 2, Miller further breaks down the fragmentation of menopause care within today’s health care system and how pharmacists are uniquely positioned to fill in long-standing care gaps.

An open line of communication between care teams is key to improving patient outcomes.

From PBM reform and AI to burnout and closures, Tom DePietro, PharmD, addresses the current state of independent pharmacy.

In part 2, Tom DePietro, PharmD, explores emerging topics of interest within community pharmacy, including AI, PBMs, and the industry’s evolving nature.

Declining Black-owned pharmacies reshape community care, and pharmacists can advance health equity today.

From PBM reform designed to benefit pharmacies to closures impacting the greater public health sector, Tom DePietro, PharmD, discusses current developments in community pharmacy.

Black pharmacists help to power civil rights, voter drives, and community care, linking history to today’s fight for health equity.

Black pharmacists help to fuel civil rights—through drugstores, voter drives, and health equity—offering lessons for today’s care gaps.

As diabetes rises to be one of the most prominent chronic diseases globally, pharmacists have reached out as key resources for preventing and managing its complications.

Mapping data reveals where pharmacy access collapses and how policymakers can fight medication deserts.

Pharmacists expand into vaccines and telehealth, but state laws and reimbursement gaps persist.

Beyond medications, lifestyle modifications can also help patients curb allergy symptoms.

Medicare’s new GLP‑1 bridge program launches soon, easing access without shortages, and pharamcists are at the focal point of these transitions.

With value-based care initiatives on the rise in the US health care system, one partnership in Ohio is showing early signs of significant success.

CMS pilots BALANCE and GLP-1 Bridge models to widen Medicare/Medicaid obesity drug coverage, spotlighting pharmacists’ role in access and safe therapy.

A PQA program shows how value-based pharmacy contracts, shared metrics, and better data boost immunizations and patient outcomes beyond dispensing.

Because pharmacists can review both prescription and refill histories, they are uniquely positioned to spot patterns of underuse or overuse of allergy and asthma medications.

Pharmacy leaders face rapid change, which can boost agility and automate repetitive tasks.

Community pharmacists can help manage worsening wounds, coordinate rural care teams, and overcome time and scope limits to improve healing.

Pharmacies can use technology and artificial intelligence to cut specialty drug complexity, boost access and adherence, and help pharmacists guide patients.