Yearly Archives: 2019

By: Amber Ray Often the true impact of legislation on our day-to-day lives can be difficult to understand, especially when it comes to health care. Because of the piecemeal nature of our health care system, woven together with various chains … Read more

By Brittany Jennings Researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Center for Medication Optimization, in collaboration with UNC Health Care’s Pharmacy Services team, are coming together to improve and optimize patient care delivery, pharmacy analytics and outcomes. The partnership, called … Read more

By: Amber Ray The Center for Medication Optimization (CMO) has received more than $600,000 in grant funding from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue new ideas spanning value-based care and population health. This June, the Eshelman Institute for Innovation … Read more

Keeping the Dream Alive – written by second-year student pharmacist, Emily Meggs – is a multi-part series about pharmacy identity and pharmacy history.   “The dream of pharmacy as a clinical profession has been deferred for too long.”  – Charles … Read more

Amber Ray Community pharmacists are well aware of how difficult it is for people to properly take their prescription medications; however, many pharmacists struggle with how to systematically figure out why. Only about 50% of people take their medications as … Read more

By Serena Mahalingam In 2008 the World Health Organization created the Commission on Social Determinants of Health to awaken society to the influences of social factors on health and health inequities. Though not a new idea, the commission felt it … Read more

By: Amber Ray Health is strongly impacted by the conditions in which people grow, learn, work, and live. Consider, for example, the health implications of trying to exercise in a neighborhood with no sidewalks, being unable to read a prescription … Read more

By: Amber Ray Do pharmacy quality measures actually measure pharmacy quality? Quality Basics There are two fundamental problems with the US healthcare system: cost and quality. It is well-known that the US spends more than any other country on healthcare. … Read more

About the author: Toneth Sang recently completed her first year at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Drug prices in the United States (US) far exceed that of other industrialized nations. For instance, the price of the top 20 highest-revenue … Read more

By: Amber Ray The Perils Facing Safety Net Organizations Safety net practices, those “providers that organize and deliver a significant level of health care and other needed services to uninsured, Medicaid and other vulnerable patients,” help make up the fabric … Read more