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Editorial for Week Commencing Monday 26 January, 2015
Welcome to the new weekly edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists dated Monday, 26 January 2015.We hope that you are enjoying the Australia Day festivities and reflecting on the fact that despite the occasional upset, Australia is really still the “lucky country”. Perhaps we feel “hard done by” in the ranks of pharmacy as…
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Future Pharmacy Starting From a Compound Base
Pharmaca is a US-based integrative pharmacy company that has developed a pharmacy model which could be adapted to an Australian “future pharmacy” model. Basically, it is a compounding pharmacy first, with outreach into evidence-based complementary medicine (hence they are integrative medicine specialists) plus a retail segment. By US standards it is a small to medium…
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Telemedicine – Promising Opportunities For Clinical Pharmacists
As technology floods nearly every sector of the US economy and there is a move to convert providers from a fee-for-service model to one that reimburses based on patient outcomes, healthcare executives are gearing up for the industry’s next monumental shift. Telemedicine. The reality is that telemedicine is not a distant possibility. While few for-profit…
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15 Reasons to Date a Pharmacist
Trawling the Internet recently we came across the global dating site eHarmony promoting pharmacists as great life partners. Intrigued as to whether they were “fair-dinkum” we visited the site to see what they were saying and genuinely surprised when we realised that they were not being frivolous. As we discussed the implications of this material…
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Patient Engagement Involves a Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange occurs when a clinical pharmacist uses best evidence to inform a patient on which direction to take to create a good health care outcome. Knowledge exchange is about sharing knowledge freely to make a difference in health outcomes for patients. During the knowledge exchange the pharmacist uses mentoring processes to act firstly as…
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Signs Future Clinical Trial Data Will be Transparent
In December of 2012, the BMJ announced a new policy regarding the sharing of data from clinical trials that included that BMJ would not publish material for trials on drugs and medical devices unless the authors committed to making the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request. This was to apply to any…
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Failure isn’t fatal
In 1860 a thirty-eight-year old man was working as a handyman for his father, a leather merchant. He kept books, drove wagons and handled hides for about $66 a month. Prior to this menial job the man had failed as a soldier, a farmer and a real estate agent. Most of the people who knew…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Immunisation Guidelines 2. Feedback on Competency Standards
January 21, 2015 PSA releases revised immunisation guidelines The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has released its revised immunisation guidelines to reflect the growing movement among State and Territory Governments to allow pharmacist-delivered vaccinations. The revised guidelines focus on the pharmacist being the immuniser and they promote best practice in the delivery of high-quality immunisation services in…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. Committee of Management 2.Fish Oil products
ASMI announces its Committee of Management 16 January 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today announced its Committee of Management for 2015. ASMI Executive Director, Dr Deon Schoombie, welcomed members to the Committee of Management. “We have a very talented and strong Committee of Management who will be driving an ambitious advocacy program…
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NPS Media Releases – New Medicinewise Honorary Members
NEW NPS MEDICINEWISE HONORARY MEMBERS 20 January, 2015 Three new honorary members of NPS MedicineWise have been appointed following an extensive call for nominations. Ms Mary Hemming, Professor Gillian Shenfield AM and Associate Professor Andrea Mant were invited by the NPS MedicineWise Board to become honorary members of NPS MedicineWise. “The three new honorary members…