McKesson IdeaShare

Community health worker training can allow the technician to perform to the top of their abilities and improve access to the pharmacy’s public health services.

COVID-19 is helping to shape current pharmacy practice, including increased vaccinations, access to care, and better interactions with patients.

Showing up for oneself is showing up for one's community and patients, according to a female independent pharmacy business owner.

McKesson ideaShare 2023 recognized pharmacy technicians with a technician-focused continuing education (CE) session, roundtable, and honorary reception.

During the pandemic, many community pharmacists also gained the authority to provide routine vaccinations for child populations.

Pharmacies should start to prepare for cash flow challenges when the direct and indirect remuneration changes in 2024.

Common assumptions about each generation are often incorrect, according to an expert in generational research.

During separate panel discussions at McKesson ideaShare 2023, pharmacists discussed advocacy for pharmacy benefit manager reform and community health worker training.

McKesson also announced the rollout of the Foster & Thrive program and a new Ohio distribution center during the conference.

Pharmacists can recognize evidence of successful interventions and learn how to integrate them into their own practice.

Community health workers can address issues of health equity to enhance the services of the pharmacy and support a value-based care model.

Health Mart is offering a new basic training program with ASHP/ACPE accreditation for pharmacy technicians, along with accredited and non-accredited training.

McKesson ideaShare is held from June 22 to June 25 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There is nothing that hurts us more when a pharmacist stands up and is not passionate about the job that we do and the care that we provide.

The first thing is educating these folks, because it's hard for them to understand our challenges if they don’t understand what we do.

Get involved, attend their sessions, attend their conferences, understand what they’re saying, make sure that we’re, again, speaking with that one common voice.

You just need to tell your story and be genuine and be real, and it makes such a difference.

We have to have this one voice that we've been talking about, this one consistent message.

Whether it was the ability to vaccinate, whether it was the ability to test, whether it's now the ability to prescribe Paxlovid for patients, those are big progress moves for the profession of pharmacy.

When we talk about access, that is a pharmacist.

Health Mart University also offers "basic technician training programs," to allow pharmacies to bring those new technicians on board, help them meet the PTCB examination standards, and really get that new technician ready to go.

Health Mart was able to deliver the targeted education they needed in a virtual manner to allow them to start in the uniting and to keep their immunization credentials.

We need to be able to build on that momentum, and at the same time, we need sustainable reimbursement models.

Health Mart University started as a platform to be franchise standards.

There's a lot of complexity in the agreements, so pharmacies like Health Mart Atlas provide reporting and resources.

Pharmacies need to kind of move beyond those models that are more punitive and look for true pharmacy-based measures and the ability to pay for performance and outcomes for patients.

It's really been a challenge for Health Mart pharmacies with the labor market the way that it is.

PSAO supports community pharmacies through patient access by unlocking the right payer agreements.

At the end of the day, we're interdisciplinary in terms of how it is that we need to manage our patients.

Pharmacies are so much more attuned to being able to use that technician to the top of his or her license and credential.