Osteoporosis Liaison Service and Medication Instruction.

Abstract

The goals of the osteoporosis liaison service are to prevent the disease more effectively, to diagnose it properly and to provide a higher quality treatment for it as well as to increase healthy life- span and to minimize the gap in health status by offering raising awareness activities. Pharmacist can play an important role in achieving both of goals. "The family pharmacist system", which was introduced by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Law(Yakkiho)in 2016, is expected to contribute to achieve the former goal while "Health supporting pharmacy" is expected to strive for the latter goal. It is also necessary to build a patient-centered collaborative relationship between hospital pharmacists and those of insurance pharmacy by sharing the information on the patients' medication. In that sense, it seems that osteoporosis managers who have a license for a pharmacist can play a significant role as a collaboration hub in the service and they can be expected to help prevent osteoporosis bone fracture and repeated fracture by supporting them in life in the community. It seems their role as a connector among all pharmacists will be more important.