Troy Trygstad

When It Comes to Achieving Provider Status, Look to Patient Demand

Don’t be asleep at the wheel. AI is coming, and it’s coming fast.

Do Not Underestimate RSV or Your Importance in Recommending Vaccines

Patients, Consumers, and Caregivers Are Increasingly Interested in Self-Determination and Convenience.

I’M GRATEFUL FOR MY ATHLETICS EXPERIENCE, TRAVELS, AND COACHING I’ve had the good fortune and privilege to compete both as a runner and a coach at a high level, participating in National Collegiate Athletics Association Division I track and field championships and being a part of a multidisciplinary team that coached multiple Olympians. Some of my success and wisdom in the sport came from a congenitally misaligned tibia, causing stress fractures and excess compression on my medial compartment,…

MANY PREDICT 2024 WILL BE THE YEAR OF PHARMACY CLOSURE Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreens collectively have reported an expected shuttering of 1500 pharmacy locations over the course of 2 years,1 with the bulk of the closures expected in 2024. Meanwhile, independent pharmacy closures also have been increasing and have numbered into the thousands over the past few years.2 A confluence of opioid settlements, the overall continued degradation in product reimbursement, consumer spending shifts away from…

All fills are not equal in their complexity and cost.

The COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated the Inevitable Remember late winter and early spring 2020? Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when the National Basketball Association canceled its season or when celebrities announced they had COVID-19? For pharmacy staff, do you remember when you heard that physician clinics were closing and patients started calling in a panic over prescription refills and access to care? Nearly overnight, telemedicine took off, restaurants closed their do…

Our wacky health care system can’t pay pharmacies a few more dollars to survive, but we can spend billions of dollars on shipping costs.

Growth of Nurse Practitioners Prompts Shortage of Registered Nurses There are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States, with nearly 90% of them being certified in primary care.1 Thanks to a long-term, unwavering march toward independent practice and bolstered by COVID-19, at least 11 states have approved or are in the process of approving independent practices of NPs. The arguments for independence should sound familiar to pharmacists. Namely, a primary care shortage, es…