Winging my way from the beautiful Atlantic coast to learn and share @ #PharmacyU Vancouver. So many fantastic speakers, juicy topics and innovation conspirators pushing to improve patient care and #QoL for providers.
Carlene Oleksyn , Chris Juozaitis and I have put together a case study following two pharmacies’ decade-long experience running and refining the #PharmacistAtIntake workflow. We’ll share some their stories and allow lots of time for questions and discussion. We’ll be joined by brilliant staff pharmacist Eric Kosiuk, and are really pleased that Sheena Deane Vice President of the Canadian Association of Pharmacy Technicians (CAPT) made the trip to be in the room with us to add to the discussion.
In 30 years of analyzing and adapting successful practice improvements in some of the best-run pharmacies on 4 continents, this is the most transformative and universally relevant pharmacy advancement I have ever witnessed.
It’s also the most essential success factor to expand scope and implement the exciting new software, and other digital prescribing and practice enhancement innovations coming to market.
To be clear I have no authorship, just awe for this model. That said, I liked what I witnessed so much I was part of a group that invested in Howe Sound Pharmacy in 2016. It is a strong R&D centre and a good investment.
More than a decade ago, Carlene and Chris (and his partner at the time) decided to blend triage with rigorous hospital practice in their own community settings without knowledge of each other. Their processes and physical layouts are surprisingly similar despite different scopes and reimbursement.
We look forward to sharing how #PharmacistAtIntake also known as #Ph1st, is objectively better than the traditional workflow in every way:
- better patient outcomes & impact on primary care access
- better staff fulfilment and #QoL (everyone has a right to pee, rest and eat during a shift!)
- better financial viability
And no pharmacy owner in any region needs permission from regulators, payers, associations or governments to start benefiting.
As Chris says “THERE ARE NO RAINBOWS OR UNICORNS HERE!” It requires leaders to make the decision to “reverse the flow”, and everyone still works hard, but most days, they get to do their best work, and the flow works FOR us rather than against us.
And as pharmacy legend Allan Chilton often says, #bettercareisbetterbusiness
Looking forward to lots of constructive discussion and debate!
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1moLook at you go Mr. Levario!!!! Crushing it 🙌🏾🙌🏾