How Medically Integrated Pharmacies Are Improving Patient Access and Care

Neal Dave, executive director of Pharmacy at Texas Oncology, explained that medically related pharmacies are truly an integrated team.

"You have a physician, a nurse, nurse practitioner or physician assistant, and a pharmacist, the business office social worker, you have a whole team that's working on behalf of the patient," Dave said. "We share the same EMR record, so, whatever information I have from the patient from the pharmacy perspective, I enter that in whatever interaction I've had, and that is seen by everybody on the care team.

That really helps facilitate patient care, and just makes it a little bit more efficient, that patients aren't having to repeat everything that they're having, or if they're suffering from a side effect"