Who We Are!

Our Consultant Pharmacists Division provides services to:

• Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Assisted Living
• Nursing Facilties
  
• Physician Offices

Our Health Information Technology Division is proud to be known as the industry expert in:

• Pharmacy Technology
• Long-Term Care (LTC) Pharmacy
• Consultant Services
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
• Pharmacy Reimbursement
• Operations
• Electronic Prescribing
• Electronic Prior Authorization
• Health Information Technology
  

Our Caregivers Technology Solutions Division provides free services to: 

• ASCP
• NCPDP
• ASC X12
• HL7
• APhA
• Community Outreach

What We Do!

Spiro Consulting, Inc. is a Pharmacy Consulting Corporation that offers the following services:

• Industry updates on Pharmacy, Health-Information Technology, and Long-term Care related topics

• Topic presentations

• Clinical consulting - ambulatory surgery centers, assisted living, hospice, nursing facilities, physician offices; etc.
  

• Pharmacy Operations Consulting

• Expert witness support and testimony

• Policy and Procedure development and review

• State and Federal regulatory review and compliance

• State Board of Pharmacy meetings and discussions

• Assistance of software users and developers

• Provide financial impacts of events to financial institutions

• Development of corrective action plans, identifying the cause, impact, and corrective actions to resolve issues.

• Spiro Consulting was proud to be a consultant of the only Long-Term Care e-prescribing pilot awarded by CMS and AHRQ.



Spiro Consulting, Inc. services clients from coast to coast in the United States and Canada.

From concept to delivery, we will help you with your pharmacy and technology requirements!

NEWS:

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Handbook: A Guide for Consultant Pharmacists, is available now and for sale at http://med-pass.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=9647&MarketID=1000000.  Spiro Consulting, Inc. is pleased to have been involved in the writing and publishing process of the Handbook!  The handbook provides a consultant pharmacist with an easy to read guide that assists pharmacists in the start up and operation of pharmacy consulting services in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

October 2010, Dr. Diana Quach, Executive Vice President of Spiro Consulting, was awarded Nevada Pharmacist of the year.  We're proud of Dr. Quach's committment to the profession of pharmacy, and her association with our corporation.

May 2010 The Consultant Pharmacist feature article "The Business of Pharmacy: Alive and Kicking for Aspiring Entrepreneurs", Shelly Spiro was interviewed for the section of the article stating on page 300 "Shelly Spiro: Networking for Success" the aspiring pharmacy business owner has many questions to ask and answer such as (1) What services will you provide?, (2) How will you put together contracts and agreements?, (3) Do you need a business license?, (4) What types of insurance will you need?, (5) How will you communicate with clients on a regular basis (how will you invoice them), (6) How much will you need and be able to charge for services? The article continues to quote Spiro "It is extremely important for pharmacists to understand the value of their time....More than anything else, you have to understand your market and how you will capture it.  You have to conduct a market analysis.  It's not enough to be good at what you do."

February 2010, Pharmacy Today.2010(Feb):16(2):32-44. by Lisa Webster and Rachelle F. Spiro.  HIT is expected to provide integrated electronic health care with interactive exchange among patient, providers, government agencies, and insurers, resulting in an increase in the overall quality, safety, and efficiency of health care delivery with fewer medical errors, increased administrative efficiency, decreased health care costs, and expanded patient access to affordable health care.  Government incentives are in place in an effort to expedite the nationwide implementation of HIT.http://www.pharmacytoday.org

Jan/Feb 2010, JAPhA - 50:1 - Jan/Feb2010, pages 4-7, American Pharmacists Association,Association Report. "Role of health information technology in optimizing pharmacists' patient care services", by Rachelle F. Spiro, Jean Paul Gagnon, and Alison R. Knutson. Health information technology (HIT) and the use of computer information systems in pharmacies is nothing new to the profession.  As the health care industry begins to aggressively adopt the use of electronic health records (EHRs), pharmacists in community pharmacies are often viewed as advanced users of technology.  For pharmacists to provide medication therapy management (MTM) to optimize outcomes from medication, they must have access to the information contained in patients' EHRs that are maintained by other health care providers, including pharmacists in other care settings, and the information contained in patient's personal health records (PHRs). http://www.japha.org

January 2010, The Consultant Pharmacist, January 2010, Vol 25, No. 1, pages 26-33, by Joanne Kaldy . The Social Pharmacist:  "Tweeting and Posting the Way to Success".  Spiro is Quoted pages 30-32 about the use of social networking by pharmacists.   http://www.ascp.com 

NOVEMBE 2009: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CONSULTANT PHARMACISTS swore in Shelly Spiro as the Associations President  at the yearly convention in Anaheim, CA  http://www.ascp.com 

May 5, 2008 Announcement - NCPDP Rachelle Spiro, voted NCPDP Work Group 14 CO-Chair and awarded Work Group 1 MVP

Project Studies the Effects of E-Prescribing Standards in Long-Term Care Settings: Effectiveness established despite concerns about electronic prior authorization. http://www.caringfortheages.com/article/PIIS1526411408600268/fulltext

"Electronic Prescribing in Long-Term Care:  An Overview of Five Pilot Projects.  Published in "The Consultant Pharmacist" January 2008 edition, Volume 23, Number 1. 

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