Pharmacists Power VA’s Rapid Scale-up Of Precision Medicine

By Karen BlumWhen the Veterans Health Administration sought to expand its infrastructure to implement pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing across its medical centers, it turned to a valuable resource: pharmacists.In one recent two-month sampling, the PGx program the VA built in response identified 193 high-priority drug–gene interactions, 95% of which were addressed in less than two weeks, reported Bonnie Balderose, PharmD, who described the program’s evolution in an ASHP Best Practices Awa