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Space Kills: First Responders Needed on May 4th
Exploring the next frontier while mastering ninja-like tricks is fun… until someone’s arm gets cut off with an electric sword. All Earth healers are urged to act as first responders and ensure their spacecraft or portable communication device is equipped with PEPID....
Self-Care Calendar for Nurses: 30 Days of Self-Care to Prevent Burnout
Nurses Have it Rough While a 3-day weekly work schedule and constant hiring demand may sound like a dream, many nurses wage a constant battle against burnout. A 2017 survey of over 600 American nurses between the ages of 25 and 55 revealed 50% have considered leaving...
An Infographic World Immunization Week
About World Immunization Week World Immunization Week is a global public health campaign to raise awareness and increase rates of immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases around the world. World immunization week takes place each year during the last week of...
PEPIDPrimer: 10 Basic Critical Appraisal Questions for Healthcare Professionals and Librarians
Using Critical Appraisal to Find the Best Resources in the Midst of 'Information Overload' The rise of evidence-based practice (EBP) has been transformative in accomplishing value-based provider goals and improving patient outcomes. Over 12,000 new articles are...
DO Your Part, Doc! How Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine Can Save an Aging America
A 2018 report conducted for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) by IHS Inc paints a grim picture for the increasing healthcare demands of a growing & aging population with a physician supply that is struggling to keep up. The predicted physician...
Starting the Conversations with your Patients to Donate Life
Life-saving Potential As a trusted health professional, your words on the topic can greatly impact perspectives on being an organ donor, help see through myths, and, at the very least, help people remember that donating is important. A single organ donor can save up...
Diagnosis or Wake Up Call? How to Educate and Motivate the Prediabetic Patient
1 in 4 Adults are Still Unaware That They are Living with Diabetes. For how seriously debilitating and life-altering diabetes can be for about 30.3 million diagnosed Americans, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimates that nearly 1 in 4 adults, or 7.2 million...
PEPID’s Founder and CEO Discusses the Challenges and Merits of PGx
Founder and CEO, Mark Rosenbloom, MD, MBA joins PEPID Pulse’s Implementing Precision Medicine live broadcast series at HIMSS 2019. Dr. Rosenbloom’s talk, “Implementing Precision Medicine in the Clinical Setting: Challenges and Rewards” expounds on: Pharmacogenomics’...
Onward and Down 2019: Medical Cost Trends and Pharmacy-Led Strategies to Mitigate Them
Healthcare reform and improvement has entered exciting times. Medical R&D and health informatics (HIT) are growing at a rapid rate, offering better options to a more curious and proactive generation of consumers. More regulatory bodies and...
Untapped Support: Certified Pharmacy Technicians for More Efficient Pharmacies
Today’s healthcare industry is a race between technology, policy, and support, with the endpoint for all of them being a more patient-centered approach. Technological advancements have made precision medicine possible, resulting in an explosion of data and...
Keep Your Genes On: How to Set Patients’ Expectations of PGx Testing
Moving Forward with Proper PGx Expectations 2,5Pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing and PGx-based treatments may be all the rage in precision medicine today, but more genetic and pharmacology experts – especially in the areas of cardiology, pain management, and...
Expanding Services and Savings: Why Leveraging a Remote Pharmacy is a Win-Win
Moving Forward with Remote SupportThe intimidating costs behind patient-centered healthcare reform can be mitigated with the added revenue and reduced labor costs of establishing remote pharmacy models (RPMs). These highly efficient sites not only give operational...
Trump Signs Opioid Law; Pharmacists Still Frustrated with Lack of Medicare B Coverage
Moving Forward with New Provisions The Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6), signed on October 24, 2018, addresses the opioid crisis by reducing supply and access while...
Getting a Bigger Slice of the P.I.E.: The Pharmacist’s Duties in Clinical Pharmacogenomics (PGx)
Getting a Bigger Slice of the P.I.E.: The Pharmacist’s Duties in Clinical Pharmacogenomics (PGx) Ninety percent of Americans live within 5 miles of a community pharmacy, with local patients averaging 35 drugstore visits annually. Compared to the average...
PGx + CDSS: Completing the Formula for Expanded Affordable Quality Healthcare
Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is rapidly evolving from being a “luxury” diagnostic test to the healthcare standard millions of patients and providers have been waiting for. Although PGx is a relatively new field, the R&D support and buzz behind it is growing...
Patient-Centered Care & Barriers to Adherence
While medical R&D has been making great strides in precision medicine and pharmacogenetics – ultimately tailoring diagnostics and treatments to match individuals on a submolecular level – healthcare providers need to remember that their relationships with their...
Association Of Exercise With Mortality In Adults Who Survived Childhood Cancer
A recent study of adults who survived childhood cancer revealed increased exercise (with a mean of 7.9 Metabolic Equivalent Task) over eight years was associated with 40% reduction in all-cause mortality rate when compared to low maintenance of...
CMS Reshapes and Finalizes “Promoting Interoperability” Rule as Providers Transition to Stage 3 in 2019
Following the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) April 2018 rule proposal announcement, comes the finalization of the “Promoting Interoperability” rule (PI, formerly known as the Meaningful Use program, or Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program)....