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Heck yes, pharmacists belong on healthcare teams. Here's how they can get there.

Savvy health-system pharmacists seeking to do more with less are putting student pharmacists to work - and it's working.

This health-system pharmacy department found success through a combination of approaches.

Okay, RIVA may be more of a system than a robot. Regardless, this award-winning IV compounder is the one to beat.

The use of biosimilars in the European Union and the United States may yield huge savings to healthcare systems over the next five years

Studies have shown a high rate of abuse of prescription drugs by healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, when compared to street drugs, primarily because healthcare professionals can access prescription medications easily and often.

As hospitals and health systems consolidate, hospital pharmacy directors tackle interoperability between pharmacy automation and EMRs. Here are some of the issues.

In health systems, close collaboration between pharmacy and nursing results in successful interventions.

Smaller hospitals come to grips with a requirement that is essential, unfunded, and compulsory.

Cardiac arrest code teams need pharmacists. Here's why.

A rural hospital's director of pharmacy tells how ACO membership cut ER visits and healthcare costs - and improved patient care.

Continuous monitoring is what's needed. Fortunately, there's a platform for that.

When it comes to filling Rxs, automation technology improves both accuracy and efficiency, giving pharmacists more time for patient care and oversight of technological functions. It's a good thing.

Shore Medical Center of Somers Point, N.J. recently informed 213 patients who received intravenous morphine or hydromorphine that they may have been exposed to HIV or hepatitis B or C.

After a successful medication therapy management (MTM) pilot program involving home visits from pharmacists to reduce hospital readmissions, healthcare executives would like to expand the program.

Health-system pharmacists help improve patient care, boost patient outcomes, reduce readmission rates, and lower costs - and savvy administrators know it.

Barton Health recently began using digital sensors compounded in medications to provide insights about medication use for patients dealing with uncontrolled and co-morbid hypertension.

Value is not just about controlling costs; it also means increasing revenues. Health systems expect it, and pharmacy departments deliver.

Shortages are speeding up the movement to get pharmacists into the ED.

Sometimes unintended consequences take well-meaning endeavors to places they were never meant to go.

What do Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Indiana University Health, and MedStar Health System have in common?

There are “significant breaches” in safe practices associated with managing hospital patients with external ambulatory pumps, according to a new survey from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).

How can your health system best manage shortages? Here are some key considerations.

Medication reconciliation, inpatient care, med safety, discharge education, transitions of care, medication adherence - these are only some of the ways pharmacists can benefit the healthcare team. There are plenty more.

Kaiser Permanente Northwest has greatly improved physician efficiency and medication accuracy – and saved the healthcare system millions of dollars - with a pharmacist-centered medication refill program.