The world of pharmacy is present process a serious shift—not surprisingly, given the adjustments underway within the healthcare trade as a complete. Impartial pharmacies are exhausting to search out, many are closing, and even established retail pharmacies are struggling. New fashions of treatment supply have emerged, akin to Mark Cuban’s Value Plus Drug Firm, in addition to Amazon and several other different mail-order pharmacies. In the meantime, the pandemic has underscored the worth of pharmacists in American society, as they’ve shouldered the heavy burden of administering vaccines, amongst different duties, and performed a vital position in guaranteeing the pictures reached the poor.

So for the ultimate episode of Season 2, which targeted on the evolution of pharmacies and PBMs, the Pivot podcast options Rick Ratliff, who for a time was CEO of Surescripts, which operates the most important e-prescribing community and constructed a nationwide digital prescribing community that connects medical doctors with pharmacies. Ratliff additionally constructed the nation's first web site/community for pharmacists to help with restoration efforts throughout Katrina in 2005.

He’s presently CEO of MedAdvisor Options, which supplies pharmacy-led affected person and pharmacist engagement options.

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