Applied Pharmacy Solutions

S provides a wide array of services and strategies that enhance the effectiveness of pharmacy operations and improve patient care.

Personnel Management Strategies

Our Associates have a wealth of experience in pharmacy personnel strategic initiatives. These include simple to more in-depth strategies to promote quality of work life, reduce turnover, boost morale, enhance customer service, and maximize output. These range from mentoring programs, career laddering mechanisms, personal marketing, and behavior change programs.

Operations Management Strategies

These strategies are derived from root cause analysis and evaluation of functions, roles, responsibilities, assets, and infrastructure in the production, sale, distribution, and delivery of pharmacy goods and services. Included in the strategy analysis and derivation are personnel, distribution equipment and processes, health information technology, and other support systems. These are conducted through a thorough gathering of data careful analysis using multivariate statistical procedures.

Community Outreach and Intervention Support Services

We enhance the marketing of, participation in, and effectiveness of outreach programs to patients aimed to promote healthy lifestyle modifications, medication adherence, health care provider consultation that promote your business and endeavor well populations. APS finds the right mix of messaging, audience targeting, readability levels of materials, outreach mechanisms, use of key informants and community leaders, all with the ability to tailor communication at the appropriate level of patient literacy and with regard to appropriate cultural awareness and sensitivity.

Prescription Drug Plan Analysis

As a carve-out from the remainder of health plans, the prescription drug benefit is potentially costly and increasingly important in keeping an organization's total spend within appropriate targets yet providing adequate coverage for employees to keep them healthy, positive, and productive. Prescription drug plans often are crafted with considerable waste and end up serving the opposite way in which they are intended. Our Associates can identify means to get more out of your prescription drug plan with less total spend.

Health Information Technology

The effective use of health information technology (HIT) which includes, but is not limited to vendor selection, product/service-organization fit, training of personnel for its use, tapping the technology's entire capabilities, assessing its utility on process and outcomes of care, and monitoring its performance can literally make or break a health care organization. Associates at APS are knowledgeable of HIT vendors, implications for use of HIT within an organization and its linkage for patients to other systems in health care delivery, and assessing the cost:benefit of various vendors and implementation strategies for HIT.

Pharmaceutical Product Design

Pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies play key roles in isolating, identifying, and initial testing of new molecular entities or new formulations and dosages of agents of real or potential therapeutic benefit. The agents or entities identified require further testing and refinement with the use of external perspectives specifically trained in various stages of the drug testing and trial process and for which infrastructure and overhead issues preclude the cost feasibility of further testing within the pharmaceutical and biotechnological firm.

Medication Therapy Management and Wellness

Employers, health plans, and other groups have myriad interests in healthy populations, ranging from a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce, to system efficiency, reduced drug spend, and ethical obligations to employees and clients. Prescription drug plan selection and specifics are paramount. Additionally, HOW your employees or clients utilize their prescription drug benefit, avail themselves of resources, engage in self-medication, and the interaction with prescription drug plan third-party administrators all impact the success and cost of the health benefits provided. Moreover, the opportunity exists to proffer or modify existing plans with a favorable benefit:cost ratio that improve plan performance and patient wellness, and further engages persons at their comfort level across the entire spectrum of your organization.

Pharmacy Academic Program Success

A successful academic pharmacy program, whether new or longstanding face an abundance of challenges and opportunities wherein even the best College-level administrators are benefited by people external to their organization and with a track record of leadership in academic pharmacy and successful visits and self-studies for ACPE accreditation. At the same time, ACPE accreditation is but one albeit very important goal of schools/colleges of pharmacy. APS has experts with long and successful track records in academic leadership, program development, research, scholarship, mentoring, enhancements in faculty and staff development, inter professional education initiatives and noteworthy practice development in assessment of student learning, assessment of mission effectiveness, faculty engagement, and marketing/attracting greater numbers of high-quality student applicants to your program, while bolstering their likelihood of success.

Grant-Writing

Many smaller foundations, health systems, pharmacy organizations, and other smaller businesses have the potential to acquire extramural funds for noteworthy projects that enhance organizational effectiveness and improve care and outreach to various populations, particularly the undeserved. Grant-writing involves technical writing, editorial skills, scientific acumen, knowledge of appropriate research designs and analysis strategies, as well as the right mix of persons to include in grant proposals and the appropriate in-kind contributions of the applicant, along with adequate fit of organizational mission with the request for proposal (RFP). APS has experienced researchers and grant-writers successful in acquiring millions of dollars of grants from government agencies, philanthropies, pharmaceutical companies, and other.

Determinants of medication incident reporting, recovery, and learning in community pharmacies:
A conceptual model
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2809%2900147-8/pdf

Entrepreneurship, resource management, organizational culture, and other business factors influencing pharmacy practice change
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2812%2900039-3/pdf

Challenges of managing medications for older people at transition points of care
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2814%2900331-3/pdf

Corporate control and professional prerogative: An unresolved tension for pharmacists
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2809%2900069-2/pdf

Organizational factors influencing pharmacy practice change
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2811%2900079-9/pdf

Building capacity to implement cognitive pharmaceutical services: Quantifying the needs of community pharmacies
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2809%2900105-3/pdf

A qualitative investigation of protégé expectations and proposition of an evaluation model for formal mentoring in pharmacy education
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2812%2900140-4/pdf

Cultural competency: Agenda for Cultural Competency Using Literature and Evidence
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2806%2900071-4/pdf

How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription errors?
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900250-7/pdf

Learning to work with electronic patient records and prescription charts: experiences and perceptions of hospital pharmacists
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900246-5/pdf

Intervention research to enhance community pharmacists cognitive services: A systematic review
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900149-6/pdf

Understanding community pharmacy intervention practice: Lessons from intervention researchers
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900184-8/pdf

Pharmacy research on health literacy can contribute to national goals and health care system improvements
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900132-0/pdf

The relationships among work stress, strain and self-reported errors in UK community pharmacy
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900254-4/pdf

The interaction of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising and stakeholders in the medication use process
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2805%2900033-1/pdf

Pharmacy dispensing errors: Claims study emphasizes need for systematic vigilance
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/dispensing-errors-claims-study-emphasizes-need-systematic-vigilance-pharmacy

Provider status, MTM expansion top APhA legislative initiatives
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/provider-status-mtm-expansion-top-apha-legislative-initiatives

Pharmacist interventions improve diabetes outcomes
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/pharmacist-interventions-improve-diabetes-outcomes

FDA should pull diabetes drug ads, group says
http://formularyjournal.modernmedicine.com/formulary-journal/news/fda-should-pull-diabetes-drug-ads-group-says

http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2806%2900071-4/pdf-7411%2806%2900071-4/pdfDeterminants of medication incident reporting, recovery, and learning in community pharmacies:
A conceptual model

http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2809%2900147-8/pdf

Entrepreneurship, resource management, organizational culture, and other business factors influencing pharmacy practice change
ttp://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2812%2900039-3/pdf

Challenges of managing medications for older people at transition points of care
Challenges of managing medications

http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2814%2900331-3/pdf

Corporate control and professional prerogative: An unresolved tension for pharmacists

http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2809%2900069-2/pdf

Organizational factors influencing pharmacy practice change
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2811%2900079-9/pdf

Building capacity to implement cognitive pharmaceutical services: Quantifying the needs of community pharmacies
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2811%2900079-9/pdf

A qualitative investigation of protégé expectations and proposition of an evaluation model for formal mentoring in pharmacy education
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2812%2900140-4/pdf

Cultural competency: Agenda for Cultural Competency Using Literature and Evidence

http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2806%2900071-4/pdf

How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription errors?
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900250-7/pdf

Learning to work with electronic patient records and prescription charts: experiences and perceptions of hospital pharmacists
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900246-5/pdf

Intervention research to enhance community pharmacists cognitive services: A systematic review
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900149-6/pdf

Understanding community pharmacy intervention practice: Lessons from intervention researchers
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900184-8/pdf

Pharmacy research on health literacy can contribute to national goals and health care system improvementshttp://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900132-0/pdf

The relationships among work stress, strain and self-reported errors in UK community pharmacy
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2813%2900254-4/pdf

The interaction of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising and stakeholders in the medication use process
http://www.rsap.org/article/S1551-7411%2805%2900033-1/pdf

Pharmacy dispensing errors: Claims study emphasizes need for systematic vigilance
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/dispensing-errors-claims-study-emphasizes-need-systematic-vigilance-pharmacy

Provider status, MTM expansion top APhA legislative initiatives

http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/provider-status-mtm-expansion-top-apha-legislative-initiatives

Pharmacist interventions improve diabetes outcomes

http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/pharmacist-interventions-improve-diabetes-outcomes

FDA should pull diabetes drug ads, group says
http://formularyjournal.modernmedicine.com/formulary-journal/news/fda-should-pull-diabetes-drug-ads-group-says

Provides a wide array of services and strategies that enhance the effectiveness of pharmacy operations and improve patient care.

Personnel Management Strategies

Our Associates have a wealth of experience in pharmacy personnel strategic initiatives. These include simple to more in-depth strategies to promote quality of worklife, reduce turnover, boost morale, enhance customer service, and maximize output. This ranges from mentoring programs, career laddering mechanisms, personal marketing, and behavior change programs.

Operations Management Strategies

These strategies are derived from root cause analysis and evaluation of functions, roles, responsibilities, assets, and infrastructure in the production, sale, distribution, and delivery of pharmacy goods and services. Included in the strategy analysis and derivation are personnel, distribution equipment and processes, health information and initial testing of new molecular entities or new formulations and dosages of agents of real or potential therapeutic benefit. The agents or entities identified require further testing and refinement with the use of external perspectives specifically trained in various stages of the drug testing and trial process and for which infrastructure and overhead issues preclude the cost feasibility of further testing within the pharmaceutical and biotechnological firm.

Medication Therapy Management and Wellness

Employers, health plans, and other groups have myriad interests in healthy populations, ranging from a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce, to system efficiency, reduced drug spend, and ethical obligations to employees and clients. Prescription drug plan selection and specifics are paramount. Additionally, HOW your employees or clients utilize their prescription drug benefit, avail themselves of resources, engage in self-medication, and the interaction with prescription drug plan third-party administrators all impact the success and cost of the health benefits provided. Moreover, the opportunity exists to proffer or modify existing plans with a favorable benefit:cost ratio that improve plan performance and patient wellness, and further engages persons at their comfort level across the entire spectrum of your organization.

Pharmacy Academic Program Success

A successful academic pharmacy program, whether new or longstanding face an abundance of challenges and opportunities wherein even the best College-level administrators are benefited by people external to their organization and with a track record of leadership in academic pharmacy and successful visits and self-studies for ACPE accreditation. At the same time, ACPE accreditation is but one albeit very important goal of schools/colleges of pharmacy. APS has experts with long and successful track records in academic leadership, program development, research, scholarship, mentoring, enhancements in faculty and staff development, inter professional education initiatives and noteworthy practice development in assessment of student learning, assessment of mission effectiveness, faculty engagement, and marketing/attracting greater numbers of high-quality student applicants to your program, while bolstering their likelihood of success.

Grant-Writing

Strategies for Better Pharmacy Organizations and Enhanced Patient Care

Strategies for Better Pharmacy Organizations and Enhanced Patient Care

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Optimizing Healthcare Solutions

Applied Pharmacy Solutions (APS) provides single-source strategies to optimize effectiveness of pharmacy organizations, enhance the services they provide to patients, and market their outreach activities more effectively.

APS leverages the talents of experienced academicians, clinicians, and researchers to address challenges and opportunities faced by pharmacy organizations of various types and their stakeholders, particularly patients. We provide single-source strategies that enhance your organization's value, effectiveness, marketing, profitability, and service acumen.

Our PhD- and PharmD-trained Associates have backgrounds in medication adherence, direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription goods and services, public health outreach, health/prescription drug benefit analysis, root cause analysis, advanced statistical modeling, pharmacy labor force economics, employee quality of work life, clinical drug trials, health information technology, medication therapy management, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacology, and dosage forms.

Our Associates have taught, conducted research, published, acquired competitive grant dollars and executed real-world strategies and interventions. APS can devise entirely new strategies or amend your organizations existing ones to maximize their effectiveness around any and all aspects of pharmacy and health care delivery.