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Specialty Pharmacy Healthcare Resources
Learn From Our Successes in Elevating Specialty Pharmacy
Search our resource library to discover information about Shields. Results shown are based on dynamic filter selections and available resources.
On The Patient’s Side, Always
November 16, 2020At Shields, we have many different teams and employees that focus on providing support to our patients and potential patients. One of those is our Patient Outreach Coordinators, whose role is to connect with our partner health-systems eligible specialty pharmacy
Support Beyond The Pharmacy
November 9, 2020From a Specialty Pharmacy Liaison– The other day I received a call from one of my breast cancer patients to thank me for connecting her to the Resource Navigator, and online resource database, here at my hospital. She had called
A Little Kindness, A Long Way for a Patient
November 2, 2020From a Specialty Pharmacy Liaison – I spoke with a new patient immediately after an appointment last month. She was frustrated and needed help to manage multiple medications between several specialty pharmacies and a local retail pharmacy. During her most
IDN Summit 2020 Takeaways
October 29, 2020By Philip Carroll, AVP of Sales Earlier this month, I attended the InformaConnect IDN BioPharma Summit 2020 where I was interested in several sessions on value-based contracting, the value of health system data to improve capture rates and how health
Shields Health Solutions, UCHealth Partner to Give Patients With Complex Chronic Illnesses Access to More Affordable Medications and New Pharmacy Services With No Added Costs
October 28, 2020AURORA, Colo. & STOUGHTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UCHealth patients with complex, chronic conditions now have access to specialized pharmacy services to help lower costs, expand treatment options, enhance medication management and improve their overall health. UCHealth, a nationally recognized nonprofit network of
Impacting Patient Therapy
October 19, 2020From a Shields Clinical Pharmacist – Before calling patients, we spend a good amount of time reviewing their charts, labs and medications to ensure we have a good understanding of past medical history. Recently I was reviewing the health history
Highlights from the NASP 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo
October 14, 2020By Greg Boll, RPh, Director of Network Operations The NASP 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo was held on September 14th-18th in a virtual format and offered its usual variety of educational sessions, keynote speakers and panels. To start the week,
JAMA Network Open Reports Specialty Pharmacy Partnership Between Shields Health Solutions and UMass Memorial Medical Center Yields Significant Reduction in Total Cost of Care for Patients Filling Prescriptions at Hospital Pharmacy
October 6, 2020An article published n the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, a three-year study (2016-2018) revealed that patients living with chronic illnesses such as cancer, transplants, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases were associated with significantly lower total
Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Address Social Determinants of Health
October 5, 2020By Jami Schell, PharmD, CSP; Lana Gerzenshtein, PharmD, BCPS, CSP; and Tim Paine Defined as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,”1 the impact of social determinants of health (SDoH) on individual and population health
Living In A Virtual Reality
October 5, 2020Happy American Pharmacist month! In honor of the fantastic Clinical Pharmacists at Shields, we will be using our Care Corner Blog this month to share stories from our Clinical Pharmacists. Our first story was sent to us by one of