Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, Discusses Plan to Increase Biosimilar Utilization

We sat down with Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, director of pharmacy at Emory Healthcare, to discuss how this program has empowered biosimilar utilization within Emory and how Emory’s initiatives could be implemented on a larger scale.

After a study revealed the hesitancies of many Emory Healthcare providers to use biosimilars, Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, director of pharmacy at Emory Healthcare, helped devise a new plan to increase utilization rates in order to control the total cost of care for patients as well as improve the baseline understand of biosimilars by developing comprehensive educational materials.

We sat down with Haumschild to discuss how this program has empowered biosimilar utilization within Emory and how Emory’s initiatives could be implemented on a larger scale.

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