Posted on December 18, 2012 at 12:20 pm
The world of pharmacy and pharmacists is changing rapidly—synching and
dovetailing with the rapid change of health care in general.
Driving the change are new technologies, better protocols for diagnosing and treating patients, and sweeping health care legislation being implemented across America.
In this new world of health care, the pharmacist is playing a larger and more important role than ever before. All of this is a positive for the health of
individuals and the broader health and wellness of society.
Pharmacists have a more prominent role on the continuum of health care, where they interact with patients and their families, physicians, nurses, care coordinators, social workers…and others.
You might have already experienced this new dynamic. Across all pharmacies, from the large chain pharmacies to hospital pharmacies to small independent pharmacies, the pharmacists on staff are far more involved in and integral to patient care.
A specific area in which the role of pharmacists and pharmacies is growing is compounding pharmacy—the specialized preparation of customized medicines that physicians prescribe for patients. Doctors in every specialty of medicine prescribe compounded medications.
Compounding pharmacies—which operate under and must abide by the same regulations as traditional pharmacies—fill the need and provide the solution for many challenges in many areas of patient care and treatment.
Let’s say there is a manufactured drug that contains an ingredient to which a patient is allergic. A compounding pharmacist can create that same drug that omits the allergen of the manufactured type. Maybe a person needs a medication, yet it is only manufactured in pill form—and this person has trouble taking pills; in this case, a compounding pharmacist can render the medicine in a liquid.
No two people are the same, and the medical needs of some people are not met with a manufactured pharmaceutical.
Drug shortages are a big problem in medicine. When a drug is in short supply or unavailable or backed up on orders, and when a patient urgently needs that drug, a compounding pharmacist can make the medication for the patient.
Prescription Dynamics and its pharmacists specialize in compounding pharmacy.
Compounding pharmacy, of course, has received unwelcome attention recently because of the meningitis outbreak tragedy linked to a tainted compounded steroid. Yet it needs to be understood that contamination of pharmaceuticals can happen, in whatever type of pharmacy, if rules and regulations aren’t observed and standards aren’t met.
The pharmacy in Massachusetts that created the tainted medication is alleged by government officials to have committed safety and procedural violations.
Prescription Dynamics believes that in order to safeguard and best ensure public health, compounding pharmacies must exceed the standards that state pharmacy boards establish.
Exceeding these standards is how Prescription Dynamics operates.
Our pharmacy and our pharmacists also help to educate and train the compounding pharmacists of the future.
To that end we are partnering on several programs with the recently launched Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy.
FDU School of Pharmacy enrolled its inaugural class of 85 students in September 2012.
Located in Florham, NJ, in the heart of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, FDU School of Pharmacy is the first school of pharmacy in New Jersey affiliated with a private educational institution and one of only two schools of pharmacy in the state.
Our partnership with FDU School of Pharmacy involves advising on many areas related to compounding pharmacy, including curriculum, theory and practicality of various types of training, expanding research opportunities, scholarships and financial aid, manuscript review, and establishing compounding pharmacy externships for students.
Prescription Dynamics pharmacists mentor and provide instruction for FDU School of Pharmacy students on site in our labs and cleanroom.
We are grateful for this opportunity, and recognize a tremendous responsibility in this role.
For we are preparing pharmacists for the future, and leading in the effort to maximize the value that pharmacists provide in keeping people well and helping them heal.
Michael De Giglio, R.Ph, of Pleasantville, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Prescription Dynamics, a Montvale, NJ-based compounding pharmacy .
Source found here
Driving the change are new technologies, better protocols for diagnosing and treating patients, and sweeping health care legislation being implemented across America.
In this new world of health care, the pharmacist is playing a larger and more important role than ever before. All of this is a positive for the health of
individuals and the broader health and wellness of society.
Pharmacists have a more prominent role on the continuum of health care, where they interact with patients and their families, physicians, nurses, care coordinators, social workers…and others.
You might have already experienced this new dynamic. Across all pharmacies, from the large chain pharmacies to hospital pharmacies to small independent pharmacies, the pharmacists on staff are far more involved in and integral to patient care.
A specific area in which the role of pharmacists and pharmacies is growing is compounding pharmacy—the specialized preparation of customized medicines that physicians prescribe for patients. Doctors in every specialty of medicine prescribe compounded medications.
Compounding pharmacies—which operate under and must abide by the same regulations as traditional pharmacies—fill the need and provide the solution for many challenges in many areas of patient care and treatment.
Let’s say there is a manufactured drug that contains an ingredient to which a patient is allergic. A compounding pharmacist can create that same drug that omits the allergen of the manufactured type. Maybe a person needs a medication, yet it is only manufactured in pill form—and this person has trouble taking pills; in this case, a compounding pharmacist can render the medicine in a liquid.
No two people are the same, and the medical needs of some people are not met with a manufactured pharmaceutical.
Drug shortages are a big problem in medicine. When a drug is in short supply or unavailable or backed up on orders, and when a patient urgently needs that drug, a compounding pharmacist can make the medication for the patient.
Prescription Dynamics and its pharmacists specialize in compounding pharmacy.
Compounding pharmacy, of course, has received unwelcome attention recently because of the meningitis outbreak tragedy linked to a tainted compounded steroid. Yet it needs to be understood that contamination of pharmaceuticals can happen, in whatever type of pharmacy, if rules and regulations aren’t observed and standards aren’t met.
The pharmacy in Massachusetts that created the tainted medication is alleged by government officials to have committed safety and procedural violations.
Prescription Dynamics believes that in order to safeguard and best ensure public health, compounding pharmacies must exceed the standards that state pharmacy boards establish.
Exceeding these standards is how Prescription Dynamics operates.
Our pharmacy and our pharmacists also help to educate and train the compounding pharmacists of the future.
To that end we are partnering on several programs with the recently launched Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy.
FDU School of Pharmacy enrolled its inaugural class of 85 students in September 2012.
Located in Florham, NJ, in the heart of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, FDU School of Pharmacy is the first school of pharmacy in New Jersey affiliated with a private educational institution and one of only two schools of pharmacy in the state.
Our partnership with FDU School of Pharmacy involves advising on many areas related to compounding pharmacy, including curriculum, theory and practicality of various types of training, expanding research opportunities, scholarships and financial aid, manuscript review, and establishing compounding pharmacy externships for students.
Prescription Dynamics pharmacists mentor and provide instruction for FDU School of Pharmacy students on site in our labs and cleanroom.
We are grateful for this opportunity, and recognize a tremendous responsibility in this role.
For we are preparing pharmacists for the future, and leading in the effort to maximize the value that pharmacists provide in keeping people well and helping them heal.
Michael De Giglio, R.Ph, of Pleasantville, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Prescription Dynamics, a Montvale, NJ-based compounding pharmacy .
Source found here
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