July 2024

Pharmacologic approaches can increase the use of injectables.

New strategies can improve cholesterol management in patients with ASCVD.

Pharmacy personnel can be integrated to optimize antimicrobial use.

The future of vancomycin dosing lies in optimizing dosing regimens to individual patient needs.

Innovations are expanding opportunities for care.

Historically there was little distinction, but recent changes bring new challenges.

Proactive strategies to protect health care data from hackers.

This manuscript will describe the creation and development of a longitudinal sterile compounding rotation at an academic medical center for postgraduate year 1 acute care pharmacy residents.

Accurate medication reconciliations are critical for ensuring safe patient outcomes, and a correct medication list can help prevent drug-drug interactions, contraindications, and duplicate therapies.

Working closely with the rest of the pharmacy team to achieve these learning objectives is also an opportunity for the importance of humility in leadership development.

Rapid advancements in technology over the past several decades have brought significant benefits to health care systems.

At ASHP Pharmacy Futures 2024, Casey Olsen, PharmD, explains that AI can affect patient trust in providers, with implications for the importance of learning to balance use of technology with human elements in clinical settings.

At the ASHP Pharmacy Futures 2024 conference, Scott D. Nelson, PharmD, MS, ACHIP, FAMIA, discusses research showed that although AI models can significantly enhance diagnostic accuracy, they can also exacerbate existing disparities.