Patient Adherence Awards Winners Revealed
Image via Wikipedia The Center for Business Intelligence, on Monday, revealed winners of its annual Strategic Patient Adherence Awards as part of its two-day conference about patient compliance with...
View ArticleAstraZeneca Signs Exclusive Distribution Deal for Vandetanib
As the number of drugs targeting small populations increases, managing numerous drug distribution channels and educating the relevant parties – specialty pharmacists, payers, physicians, and patients –...
View ArticleMedco CEO Champions Robots Over Pharmacists
The role of the pharmacist in positive health outcomes – and drug company profits – is often cited in discussions around adherence to medication regimens, holistic prescribing practices and the...
View ArticlePharmacists: The Other White Coats
Patients in search of face time with a healthcare provider are stopping into their local drugstores, where consultations are free and the wait time is shorter. Pharmacists are in a unique position,...
View ArticleCongress, FDA Should Consider Tech Solutions for Safer Compounding
By Niels Erik Hansen Niels Erik Hansen, president and CEO of Intelligent Hospital Systems Last fall’s deadly meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections is a tragic reminder of the...
View ArticleFilling the Rx Gap: Cost Solutions at the Point-of-Sale
Prescription abandonment—cited as one of the major cost-related issues in healthcare—has prompted numerous efforts to raise the profile of pharmacists in driving improvements in patient utilization....
View ArticleCongress Clarifies Drug Compounding, Tracking Policies
Public outrage over deaths from contaminated injectables produced by large compounding pharmacies, along with rising concerns about counterfeit and unauthorized drugs entering the U.S. market, managed...
View ArticleNational Chains Carefully Circle Obamacare
by Tom Norton While US Pharma anxiously watches the initial roll out of Obamacare, there are those entities closely associated with the innovator Rx business that have a very different view on what...
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