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Phlebotomy CE - finally. See VATmethod.com - 'Training' page, for the latest advancements in Venipuncture Training - the 21st century STEM-based methods for locating, dilating, and accessing veins. You'll love it! #STEM21cVA #VAtmethod #Phlebotomist #labmedicine

Progress, Progress, Progress!

The fight for fair reimbursement isn’t about #independentpharmacy versus #chainpharmacy—America needs both, with each serving its unique purpose. One of my favorite pharmacists, Dr. Mak (aka the “Superman Pharmacist”) so eloquently illustrates this in this video clip. The mistake businesspeople sometimes make is falsely assuming that pharmacy is strictly a transactional business. Pharmacy can be transactional, but often isn’t. While some patients just want to hit the CVS drive-thru, others are more medically complex and need a higher degree of counseling to ensure no contraindications to medications, and/or that they are using their medications appropriately. This becomes increasingly important as we age, where the number of prescriptions we’re taking, potential side effects risk and preexisting health conditions grow. We need independent pharmacy to survive. And we especially need to ensure that we align Medicare reimbursement in such a way as to not disincentivize the type of high-touch, hands-on care that many of these Independent Pharmacies excel at.

To kick off CAH Awareness Month, we would like to share some words from the CARES Medical Director, Karen Lin Su, M.D. Please take a moment to learn more about Dr. Su's involvement with CAH, and her time as the CARES Medical Director, and how that has shaped her journey so far! #CARES #CAH #CAHAwarenessMonth #CARESFoundation #CongenitalAdrenalHyperplasia

In this promotional video, you will see how our Executive Board is committed to excellence in everything we do. We hope that this video will give you a better understanding of our dedication to our members and our mission. Watch it here https://lnkd.in/gkKa3VUs #WCETn #woundcare #ostomy #nurseeducation

We recognize that changing your custom orthotics lab typically disrupts the day-to-day of caring for your patients, and may not pay off for you or them in the long term. As you can see, though, switching to Orthotica Labs is a sure way to make the lives of your patients and your practice staff easier. Try Custom Made Easy with Orthotica: Click or tap https://lnkd.in/gjQxZsR7

What did Vetrehabbers have to say about the Vet Rehab Summit 2022? The Vet Rehab Summit is an annual online event where we aim to bring Vetrehabbers from around the world together over their mutual passion for growth and learning 💚 Our goals for the Vet Rehab Summit ALWAYS include: 1. to connect Vetrehabbers around the world with one another 2. to bring Vetrehabbers together with the companies and service providers that support them, 3. to grow and promote our profession 4. to LEARN and expand our knowledge! Will you be attending the Vet Rehab Summit 2023? www.vetrehabsummit.com #vetrehabsummit2023 #myofascialchains

1st Patient Engagement between HTAD, Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations and Civil Society. Everybody from HTAD agreed that it was a success! My thoughts on what made this consultative meeting a success. 1. Giving participants an early heads up on the event. 2. Giving them the documents ahead of time so they can have time to read and prepare for discussion. 3. Relentless reminders and at the same time asking their thoughts and comments. 4. Sharing with HTAD on what patients would be more interested in knowing or what would be more of value to them as a patient group or patient leader. Kudos to HTAD for a very clear presentation and for capturing the interest of the attendees. Good job! Anne Julienne Genuino-Marfori, RPh, MSc, Sheena Jasley Samonte, RPh, Patrick Wincy Reyes and the rest of the team.

I have had the immense honor of working for and then with physicians since I was 15 years old. Looking back over those nearly five decades, I can, without hesitation, say each physician and clinician I have worked with cared deeply for their patients, doing their best to improve the patient’s current state. In my career as a hospital administrator, I was fortunate to work with physician leaders in their efforts to expand access, reach and quality of care to individuals and communities. Their commitment, passion and brilliance to advance clinical care continues to inspire me. If we truly want to ‘honor’the work and dedication of physicians, and all clinicians, we should do so through action. We need to demonstrate that we recognize the unique value of every minute of their available time. As an industry we must purposefully act to remove valueless, administrative burdens draining valuable minutes of physician and clinicians time. We need to step back and question what value does an administrative task being completed by a clinician deliver and to whom that value accrues. For each administrative task we - as an industry- need to be question and evaluate the time/value of that task to patient access and quality outcome. Does the task create value to access, quality, overall outcome? To whom does that identified value accrue? Although, I haven’t done the detailed analytical research and calculations, my nearly 50 years of professional experience and personal relationships with clinicians, leads me to conclude that every minute of administrative activity, void of patient and/or multi-party value patient and or multi- party improvement to care outcome or access improvement, has a compounding negative impact on a physician/clinician’s physical and emotional availability. We are draining a limited resource. As an industry, lets work to reverse and remove the value-drain of administraive requirements we are placing on physician/clinician’s time. This will demand more than automation. We need to question the ROI of the administrative task/process and effort to the value each task/process contributes to improving patient access, care quality and or experience. Thank you, to every physician and care giver who continues to care deeply and battle daily for your patients and communities. I am eternally grateful for all you do. We, at Avaneer Health, are shoulder to shoulder with you. We are redesigning the business of healthcare. Where effort delivers value to all parties creating win-win-win rather one-side value creation with healthcare’s current carrot/stick and regulation/penalty approach.