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How Specialty Pharmacy Can Support Value-Based Care and Population Health 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

How Specialty Pharmacy Can Support Value-Based Care and Population Health

This white paper discusses how expanding integrated health system specialty pharmacy can be an impactful tool that health systems can leverage to improve their performance under value-based care contracts.
Managing Social Determinants of Health With the Diabetes Care Coach Program 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Managing Social Determinants of Health With the Diabetes Care Coach Program

Many diabetes patients face challenges related to social determinants of health (SDOH), non-medical factors that impact patients’ health, medication use, and health outcomes. Food and housing insecurity, unemployment, and budget…

Leveraging Data to Gain a Specialty Edge 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Leveraging Data to Gain a Specialty Edge

Hospitals and health systems continue to build and expand their own specialty pharmacies, and with good reason, according to several veterans of specialty rollouts.

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How Shields Employees Celebrate The Holiday’s

Shields created six Employee Resource Groups (ERG) last year to celebrate the diversity of our team and create opportunities for team members to connect with each other and learn about…

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Shields End Of Year Celebration

I love this time of year! It’s the holidays; time for traditions, gathering with family and friends: food, laughter, and kindness abounds! But, one more reason I love this time…

Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Associated With Lower Total Cost Of Care 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Associated With Lower Total Cost Of Care

Analysis shows that integrated specialty pharmacy model is associated with lower total cost of care. Shields Health Solutions (SHS) recently partnered with Optum Advisory Services to evaluate the impact of…

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Changing The Way Diabetes Is Treated

The Shields Diabetes Program applies our integrated care model to diabetes by placing pharmacy liaisons in clinics. Liaisons are trained to handle benefits investigation, prior authorization, financial assistance, refill reminders,…

Shields Health Solutions improves medication affordability for diabetes patients 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Shields Health Solutions improves medication affordability for diabetes patients

BOSTON, November 18, 2021 – Shields Health Solutions, the premier specialty pharmacy accelerator in the country, is drastically improving medication affordability for its diabetes patients through its high-touch pharmacy care…

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HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus spread through contact with certain fluids of an infected person, attacking the immune system and affecting the body’s ability to fight infections and…

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Multiple Sclerosis

MS is a chronic, autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, affecting the communication between the brain and other parts of the body.