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ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers has a new strategic plan

By Jerry Fahrni on September 25, 2015

A little more than a week ago the most recent ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers Chair’s Message(1) landed in my inbox. I don’t typically read these messages carefully as they’re mostly full of the same old rhetoric. However, this particular message caught my attention because it included information on the ASHP Section of Pharmacy […]

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Saturday morning coffee [April 20 2013]

By Jerry Fahrni on April 20, 2013

So much happens each and every week that it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Here are some of the tabs that are open in my browser this morning along with some random thoughts…. The coffee mug to the right comes straight from Indianapolis. I was there for work as part of a multi-city five hospital […]

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Center for the study of pharmacy automation and technology [idea]

By Jerry Fahrni on March 13, 2013

Earlier this week I put up a post about a Prezi created by Dr. Robert Hoyt called Evidence Based Health Informatics: Replacing Hype with Science. It was a great presentation about a lot of the technology that healthcare has adopted over the years without any real evidence to back it up. I wish you could […]

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Patient collected information and the role of pharmacists

By Jerry Fahrni on February 27, 2013

I had an interesting phone conversation this morning with Kevin Sneed, Pharm.D.(@DeanSneed), Dean at the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy (USF COP). I’ve been trying to connect with Dr. Sneed for a while now, but as you can imagine his schedule is pretty full. Fortunately for me I was able to grab about 30 minutes […]

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Transforming pharmacy technicians for the future

By Jerry Fahrni on November 19, 2012

I support the use of pharmacy technicians in many roles inside acute care pharmacies. I believe that they are a valuable tool and, when properly utilized, pharmacy technicians can not only improve pharmacy operations and patient safety, but can also give pharmacists freedom to focus on clinical duties and patient care. This is why I […]

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Why pharmacy continues to fail

By Jerry Fahrni on February 2, 2012

I’ve been a pharmacist since 1997. The profession of pharmacy, and therefore the basic principals of the practice, haven’t changed in that time. During my career I’ve worked in six different hospitals (1 in operations, 2 as a clinician, 2 general practice, 1 informatics), one long-term care pharmacy, once as a consultant pharmacist in long […]

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Webinar: Effective Pharmacy Interactions with ‘The C-Suite’

By Jerry Fahrni on November 8, 2011

I think a key for the future of pharmacy will be for pharmacy leaders to learn how to engage the C-Suite within their own healthcare system. That makes the content of this webinar from Pharmacy OneSource particularly interesting. Wednesday, December 14th: "Effective Pharmacy Interactions with ‘The C-Suite’" Jim Jorgenson, RPh, MS, FASHP Reserve your Webinar […]

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Why regulatory compliance is killing innovation in healthcare

By Jerry Fahrni on August 25, 2011

Anyone that’s worked in healthcare knows about regulatory compliance. If not, then they should because it takes up about 50% of everyone’s time, energy and effort. I understand the theory behind regulations, i.e. protect the patient, but I think most of the time all additional regulations do is is create work for people that are […]

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The ASHP Summer Meeting 2011 continues … (#ashpsm)

By Jerry Fahrni on June 14, 2011

I had planned on blogging daily during the Summer Meeting, but obviously that didn’t happen. Perhaps it was the big dinner I had yesterday evening followed by the insanely good gelato that put me into a food comma, or then again maybe it was just laziness. Regardless, I skipped a day. The Summer Meeting continues […]

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And so it begins, the ASHP Summer Meeting 2011 (#ashpsm)

By Jerry Fahrni on June 12, 2011

As you read this the ASHP Summer Meeting is taking place in Denver, Colorado. While the ceremonial start isn’t until after the Opening Session and Keynote tomorrow (Monday, June 13) things have been in full swing since Saturday.

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