The world of pharmacies is present process a serious shift – not surpisingly, given the modifications afoot within the total healthcare business. Impartial pharmacies are laborious to search out with a lot of them shuttering and even established retail pharmacies are struggling. New fashions of remedy supply have emerged with the likes of Mark Cuban’s Price Plus Drug Firm in addition to Amazon and a number of other different mail-order pharmacies. In the meantime, the pandemic underscored the worth of pharmacists in American society as they took on the heavy load of administering vaccines amongst different duties, enjoying a pivotal function in ensuring the pictures reached arms.
So, for the ultimate episode of Season 2, which centered on the evolution of pharmacies and PBMs, the Pivot podcast is that includes Rick Ratliff, who for a time was the CEO of Surescripts, which operates the most important e-prescribing community, and constructed a nationwide digital prescription community connecting medical doctors to pharmacies. Ratliff additionally constructed the nation’s first web site/community for pharmacists to assist with restoration efforts throughout Katrina in 2005.
He’s at the moment the CEO of MedAdvisor Options, which supplies pharmacy-led affected person and pharmacist engagement options.
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