The Growth of Telehealth & Chronic Care Management in the Wake of COVID-19

By Richard Korecky, PharmD Animals can adapt, but humans are infinitely adaptable. COVID-19 made us change how we lived, worked, played, shopped, and more for over a year. Humans primarily responded by taking precautions: wearing masks, staying distant, and hand-washing. Hanging plastic and plexiglass were used universally around the globe. Open hours – hours that […]

Preventing Adverse Drug Events

Elderly Potential Adverse Drug Event

By:  Hannah Grice, PharmD Adverse Drug Events Room for error:  In the elderly population, medications have gone from blessing to possible threat.  Prescriptions are being written liberally and scripts for the elderly are roughly 33% of the US total.  “One in six hospital admissions of older adults is because of an adverse drug event (ADE), […]