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Hazardous Drugs: What a Retail Pharmacy Needs to Know Now
As we approach the December 1 implementation date for USP <800> hazardous drugs (HDs), there are some basic questions that independent pharmacists haven’t had clear answers to: Will USP <800> affect my retail pharmacy? Can I still provide nonsterile...
Road Trip: Part I
I JUST DROVE 3,992 MILES and visited nine remarkable pharmacies in Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Calgary, Canada. The good news is that what I saw proves community pharmacies can find practical, professional, and profitable ways to grow. The...
Using Pharmacy Point of Sale for Patient Care
When you think of point of sale, what comes to mind?
Do you think of long checkout lines? Battles over incorrect pricing? Yet another cashier pressuring you to apply for some new credit card?
Whatever comes to mind, it’s likely that...
Tapping into the CBD Opportunity
These days, you would be hard-pressed to go a few days without hearing about cannabidiol, or “CBD.” In the past few years, the market has expanded exponentially, with recent analysis from BDS Analytics and Arcview Market Research predicting that...
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Due to the ongoing challenges of reimbursement, third-party audits, and wholesaler pricing, pharmacies need partners and tools that help them to not only meet these challenges, but also to provide the services that...
Prescription Monitoring Programs: Making the Reports Meaningful
PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAMS (PMPs), also known as prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), continue to be important sources of information in the fight against opioid abuse and overdose deaths. While much of the harm is now attributed to illegal drugs...
Specialty Pharmacy: High Tech, High Touch
The specialty pharmacy market continues to grow. What are the current market dynamics, and what technology needs are required to be successful in the specialty space? ComputerTalk set out to explore this question through interviews with specialty pharmacy players.
Tabula Rasa HealthCare: From Start-up to Case Study
ComputerTalk: Brian, Tabula Rasa is a publicly traded company, and quite a success story for venture investing in the Philadelphia area. Clearly, you brought a valuable story to tell the early-stage companies at the conference.
Brian Litten: Yes, we did....
TDS Technology Health Experience Conference
Nearly 1,000 pharmacy professionals and more than 40 exhibiting partners attended the inaugural Technology Health Experience Conference in St. Louis, MO. Attendees enjoyed networking, educational courses taught by industry and business leaders, Computer-Rx and Rx30 pharmacy software training labs...
POC Testing: A Bridge to Delivering Guideline Care
COMPUTERTALK’S SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 cover story, “Opportunity at the Point of Care,” described the current state of point-of-care (POC) testing opportunities and the incredible work being done with rapid strep and flu testing, immunizations, pharmacogenomics, and more.
The question becomes, how...