July 21, 2017 | Edana Holliday of Rx Clinic Pharmacy is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Health Tech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostic Summit. Holliday speaks about how Rx Clinic Pharmacy is working to integrate point-of-care testing and pharmacogenetic testing into their practice, and how use of these methods can bring doctors and pharmacists into new collaborations. Here is a sample of the discussion that takes place. Podcast
CHI: What are some of the ways that you are seeing medical doctors and pharmacists collaborate to improve the patient care?
Edana Holliday: What we've seen is a wonderful collaboration, and a wonderful teamwork between our providers and our pharmacists; especially in our ambulatory care section and sector, where our providers are able to depend on our pharmacists. The pharmacists or the provider may recommend that a patient go do the testing. Through that process, the medical provider and the pharmacist are able to work together, once the results are in, to decide what's the best regimen for that patient.
The way the program that we use works is that the patient is not able to see the results until they have a one-on-one consultation with the pharmacist. After that, those results are passed on to the medical provider. Between the two of them, they come to terms with a regimen that works for the patient. This has, especially, been wonderful for our patients that suffer from depression, from anxiety; especially our patients that are having a lot of issues and have been diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome, or need to be on blood thinners or anti-platelet therapies. Those are the patients that we've seen the most impact with, but this has definitely been a wonderful opportunity for providers and pharmacists to come together to develop regimens for patients.