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Pharmacy at the Center of Collaborative Care: A Case Study

Building a collaborative relationship with local physicians and hospitals is a natural extension of clinical services offered by the pharmacy. Prosperity Drug Company is a traditional community pharmacy in a 2,100-square-foot building on the square in downtown Prosperity, S.C....

The Impact of Disruptive Technology

Shan Bhide joined SoftWriters earlier this year as VP of technology, where he will lead the product management, development, and quality assurance functions at the company. With post-graduate degrees in engineering and information technology and management, Bhide’s background encompasses...

QS/1 2018 Customer Conference

The 2018 QS/1 Customer Conference in New Orleans once again offered an opportunity to hear about new products and interfaces and connect with fellow pharmacists. At this year’s conference the new leadership team was introduced: Alan Turfe, CEO and...

Delivering on Adherence: How Packaging and Med Sync Drive Results

Hashim Zaibak, Pharm.D., has built Hayat Pharmacy into an 11-location chain in the Milwaukee area, with a focus on improving adherence and patient outcomes in underserved communities, including those with recent immigrants who are often not very familiar with...

Buy or Build?

Progressive pharmacies look to technology to help them accomplish their goals. But the burning question is: Should chain pharmacies buy or build such technology? Approximately nine out of 10 Americans live within five miles of a pharmacy, according to the...

Rethinking Your Printing: Who Are You Labeling Your Prescriptions for?

With 50 separate state regulatory agencies telling us what we need to put on prescription labels, it is difficult for any multistate pharmacy chain to comply. National chains may have 50 separate label formats, and often more. But even if you...

Knowing the Score: Managing Cumulative Medication Risk

Orsula Knowlton, Pharm.D., M.B.A., is co-founder, president, and chief marketing/business development officer at Tabula Rasa HealthCare. She shares how the company’s Medication Risk Score addresses interactions in complex medication regimens, how pharmacogenomics can identify opportunities to improve outcomes, and...

Multistore Independent Pharmacy Streamlines Operations with New Technology

Founded in 1989, SaluMed Pharmacy operates two locations that have always centered on the primary goal of fulfilling the needs of the central Long Island, N.Y., community and its Hispanic market — labeling products and prescriptions in Spanish, featuring Spanish-language...

The State of Automation: Trends in Chain Pharmacy

RxMedic Vice President David Williams has been around pharmacy technology for over 30 years. This has given him a keen eye for trends, and in this interview he talks about two areas of automation where he’s seen shifting interest...

Managing LTC Pharmacy Complexity with Process Automation

A long-term care pharmacy staff’s day is filled with multiple, detailed, and repetitive processes that require constant time and attention, and even then can be quite error prone. Add to that a constant and multidirectional flow of internal and...