- Health care will place increasing emphasis on drug therapy to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. Prescription drug use will continue to rise, creating greater risk of drug-related morbidity.
- Society will become increasingly technology literate and technology driven. Technology will be deployed fully to dispense most prescriptions, provide drug information to patients, and facilitate the exchange of patient-specific data among and within health care systems.
- Pharmacy will transform itself from a primarily product-centered profession to a patient care-oriented profession.
- Patient care rendered by pharmacists, including those not directly involved with drug product distribution, will be reimbursed by payers.
- Technician certification will be mandated to protect the public.
- Pharmacy education will prepare graduates for increasingly complex patient and population drug therapy management and problem-solving, and supervision of prescription dispensing and processing by technicians and automated technology.
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Uma visão um pouco "last tuesday"... não?
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