An Integrated Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Model for Coordinating Transitions of Care: Specialty Medication Challenges and Specialty Pharmacist Opportunities

Opportunities and challenges of specialty pharmaceuticals.

Uterine artery embolisation: challenges and opportunities in cross-specialty care.

Women with symptomatic uterine fibroids have an increasing number of treatment options available, from medical management through minimally invasive procedures to major surgery. Over the past two decades, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, endometrial ablation, uterine artery embolisation, magnetic resonance guided focussed ultrasound, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation and cryoab...

Specialty pharmacy cost management strategies of private health care payers.

BACKGROUND The rate of increase in spending on specialty pharmaceuticals is outpacing by far the rate of increase in spending for other drugs. OBJECTIVE To explore the strategies payers are using in response to challenges related to coverage, cost, clinical management, and access of specialty pharmaceuticals and to describe the potential implications for key stakeholders, including patients, ...

Specialty pharmaceuticals care management in an integrated health care delivery system with electronic health records.

The specialty pharmaceuticals market is expanding more rapidly than the traditional pharmaceuticals market. Specialty pharmacy operations have evolved to deliver selected medications and associated clinical services. The growing role of specialty drugs requires new approaches to managing the use of these drugs. The focus, expectations, and emphasis in specialty drug management in an integrated ...

The rise and role of specialty pharmacy.

Over the last 30 years, specialty pharmacy has grown from a notion to a cottage industry to being on the cusp of becoming a major force in healthcare delivery.