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7 Ways To Improve Medication Adherence and Lower DIR Fees

Digital Pharmacist

Pharmacy Performance Metrics Medication Adherence: Non-adherence to three chronic disease categories — oral diabetes medications, statins for cholesterol, and hypertension medications — impacts a pharmacy’s adherence score. To comply, pharmacies need to coordinate with doctors to get statins prescribed to patients with diabetes.

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What Your Pharmacy Can Do for National Nutrition Month

Digital Pharmacist

Dialogue around exercise is also recommended, as combining regular exercise with healthier eating habits — even if it’s just light cardio , can be largely beneficial for your patients.

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Walking in Discouraged, Walking out oPENtimistic

Flip the Pharmacy

We asked the patient to demonstrate how he uses his pen to ensure he knew how to properly use it with one of our demo pens. In addition, through our efforts we were able to enroll him into a new cardiovascular preventative program, and he was interested in our diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) classes!!