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Highlights from the NASP 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

Highlights from the NASP 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo

By 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…

Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Address Social Determinants of Health 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Address Social Determinants of Health

By 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…

ExceleraRx Corp.’s Holt and Schell to Present at InformaConnect IDN BioPharma Summit 2020 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

ExceleraRx Corp.’s Holt and Schell to Present at InformaConnect IDN BioPharma Summit 2020

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, October 1, 2020 —Excelera®, the company behind the Excelera Network, announced today that Meredith Holt, National Vice President of Health System Partnerships will present at the IDN BioPharma Summit…

ACHC and ExceleraRx Corp. Renew Partnership to Advance Pharmacies 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

ACHC and ExceleraRx Corp. Renew Partnership to Advance Pharmacies

ACHC announces the renewal of its partnership with ExceleraRx Corp. | Pharmacies in the Excelera® Network will receive special pricing on ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation and discounts on educational resources that can…

Chartwell Pennsylvania, LP, Affiliated with UPMC d/b/a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Joins the Excelera Network to Optimize Specialty Pharmacy and Home Infusion Services 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Chartwell Pennsylvania, LP, Affiliated with UPMC d/b/a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Joins the Excelera Network to Optimize Specialty Pharmacy and Home Infusion Services

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, September 17, 2020 — Chartwell Pennsylvania, LP has partnered with Excelera®, the company behind the Excelera Network, to further optimize its specialty pharmacy and home infusion services, improve…

COVID Jump-Starts Cancer Care at Home 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

COVID Jump-Starts Cancer Care at Home

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country and hospitals reduced in-person visits to a bare minimum, health systems—such as Partners Healthcare, M Health Fairview and Northwestern—worked to ensure that…

ExceleraRx Corp.’s Polan to Present at Fairview Pharmacy Symposium 2020 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

ExceleraRx Corp.’s Polan to Present at Fairview Pharmacy Symposium 2020

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15, 2020 — Excelera®, the company behind the Excelera Network, announced today that Troy Polan, acting CEO and Chief Technology Officer, will present at the Fairview Pharmacy Symposium…

Excelera and Banner Health Collaborate on a Medication Adherence Initiative 1024 629 Shields Health Solutions

Excelera and Banner Health Collaborate on a Medication Adherence Initiative

Last September, Excelera announced its innovative process for assessing medication adherence across its nationwide network of health system specialty pharmacies. The data was presented as a poster at the ASHP Summer…

Pandemic Management Strategies for Patients With Cancer at an Academic Medical Center 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

Pandemic Management Strategies for Patients With Cancer at an Academic Medical Center

By Martha Stutsky, PharmD, BCPS; and Osama Abdelghany, PharmD, MHA, BCOP Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Health System in Connecticut is 1 of 45 National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive…

COVID-19 and the Impact on Oral Oncolytics: A Specialty Pharmacy Perspective 150 150 Shields Health Solutions

COVID-19 and the Impact on Oral Oncolytics: A Specialty Pharmacy Perspective

By Claudia S. Castro, PharmD, MS, BCOP, BCGP; and Amanda Manoogian, PharmD, BCOP The prevalence of individuals living with cancer continues to rise, largely because of an aging and growing…