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Quality Essentials Review: Strategies for Reducing Polypharmacy to Improve Medication Safety
The PQA Quality Essentials Webinar series provides education on the fundamentals of quality measurement, which is important for effective measure implementation and performance, and information about where and how PQA quality measures are used. The September 14, 2023, PQA Quality Essentials Webinar welcomed members of PQA’s Performance Measurement team and speakers from Kaiser Permanente to […] -
Five for Friday November 17: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
Ten years ago, PQA established a Postdoctoral Executive Fellowship. The program has hosted 13 fellows, and everyone has successfully completed the program and moved into an important industry role, where they are leaders in pharmacy, medication services and quality improvement. Applications for the 2024-25 fellowship positions are due November 28. It’s an incredible opportunity to join the nation’s only quality organization that is […] -
The PQA Executive Fellowship: Developing Tomorrow’s Quality Leaders
Ten years ago, PQA established a Postdoctoral Executive Fellowship. The program has hosted 13 fellows, and everyone has successfully completed the program and moved into an important industry role, where they are leaders in pharmacy, medication services and quality improvement. Applications for the 2024-25 fellowship positions are due November 28. It’s an incredible opportunity to […] -
EQUIPP® Enhanced Services
This guest blog is one in a series by sponsors of the 2023 PQA Leadership Summit on EQUIPP enhanced services. The views shared in this series are those of the author and do not reflect any PQA positions. In 2023, more than 50 million patients were enrolled in a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan […] -
Five for Friday November 3: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
PQA offers a variety of student and professional programs, including experiential rotations, internships and fellowships. Each is focused on providing health care quality experience to diverse individuals from diverse disciplines. PQA is now accepting applications for our student and professional programs for 2024-2025. Visit our student programs page and learn more about the educational opportunities below. We […] -
Five for Friday October 20: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
We are excited to host members in two weeks at the 2023 PQA Leadership Summit and PQA Convenes: Advancing Medication Therapy Management Quality Measurement. This year’s summit will advance measure modernization, while the convening event will address the state of MTM practice and opportunities to evolve MTM measurement. Leadership Summit attendees are invited to participate in both events. PQA Convenes […] -
Five for Friday October 6: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
PQA has released the entire Medication Use Quality continuing education program and Medication Use Quality Certificate, which is a fully updated version of the program that was initially released in 2020. The updated program consists of the 15-hour Medication Use Quality Certificate and eight individual courses that are 2 to 3 hours each that deliver the certificate program’s content in […] -
PQA’s APPE Rotation: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students
PQA offers a competitive Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiential (APPE) Rotation for pharmacy students, which provides experiential learning opportunities in non-profit association management, medication use quality education, communications, research and performance measurement. PQA works with individual students to align their rotation experience with desired career goals and interests. Applications for the 2024-25 year are now being accepted. You can apply here. Visit our Student Programs page for more information. Courtney Smith, Ohio Northern University […] -
PQA Welcomes Five New Members
PQA is a non-profit organization with 250 diverse members across healthcare. Our members include community and specialty pharmacy organizations, pharmacists and other healthcare providers, pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences, technology vendors, government agencies, health information technology partners, researchers, accrediting organizations and academia. New organizations regularly join PQA throughout the year. This blog […] -
Diverse Voices in Quality: Michelle Juhanson
Diverse Voices in Quality is a PQA blog series that showcases the successful career paths and experiences of medication use quality professionals from diverse groups at PQA member organizations. A part of PQA’s Diverse Quality Leaders Program, this series celebrates the achievements of our members who reflect our nation’s diversity and provides everyone with insights and […]
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