Building a Successful Ambulatory Care Practice

Book excerpt: Build strong ambulatory care sites for your patients. Integration of pharmacists into an outpatient setting is constantly evolving. Are you prepared to meet the challenge? ASHP's Building a Successful Ambulatory Care Practice: Advancing Patient Care, 2nd Edition builds on the material presented in Mary Ann Kliethermes and Tim R. Brown's Building an Effective Ambulatory Care Practice by addressing the changes that have occurred in ambulatory care practice in recent years. It forges ahead into material not covered in the previous book, giving pharmacists both the information they need to make effective plans in the contemporary environment and the fools needed to implement them. Know your role, the value of your service, and the key elements for establishing or enhancing your practice. Topics are presented sequentially throughout the book and include: How do I write a business plan? How do I market my business plan and services? How do I create my ambulatory care patient care model? How do I keep up with technology changes? Who handles reimbursements? How do I convey the importance of patient-centered care? Book jacket.