Pharmacy Voices
Pharmacy Voices is content ComputerTalk‘s content from contributors from around the pharmacy technology market.
Why Pharmacist Care Needs To Be Specific, Predictable, and Measureable
Another theme was APhA’s role in pharmacy practice accreditation. The premise here is that: “For any new service to scale, it must be ‘specific, predictable, and measureable.’” To this end, APhA has been working through the Center for Pharmacy...
Why Pharmacist Care Matters: Thoughts from The 2016 APhA Conference
The Pharmacists Provide Care campaign has generated more than 37,000 letters to Congress, one major result of which is that the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act (H.R. 592/S. 314) has 271 cosponsors in the House and 42...
Pharmacist Services: New Report Highlights Ways to Expand Reimbursement
A new report from Avalere Health, entitled “Developing Trends in Delivery and Reimbursement of Pharmacist Services,” outlines several factors that could help facilitate broader reimbursement for pharmacist services. The report was released in November and funded by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS).
The Status of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
We will start this column with a few questions, answers, and interesting facts. In the United States, what would you guess is responsible for more unintentional deaths than cocaine and heroin combined? Opioid analgesics. In 2013, what caused more deaths than homicide? Prescription analgesics. While the United States accounts for approximately 5% of the world’s population, it accounts for 80% of the world’s opiate use and 99% of the world’s hydrocodone use.
The Market Impact of Pharmacy Consolidation
The rate of retail pharmacy mergers has increased in the last year, with the announcement of several mega deals. The total pharmacies involved in these announced mergers is approximately 10% of the retail pharmacies in the country. We will spend a few minutes reviewing the market dynamics driving the accelerating consolidation in the industry.
Turning Struggles into Solutions
In this interview with ComputerTalk’s Maggie Lockwood, DataScan President Kevin Minassian shares his thoughts on what he sees as pharmacy’s survival and areas for growth.
Call Yourself and an Advisory Board
These are a couple of things that I wrote about a few years ago. Please let me know if you have tried them (or will). Both are applicable to independent pharmacies. But only because the chains aren’t smart enough to do them. Both are easy. And both will tell you a lot about your pharmacy’s faults and features.
A Growing Pharmacy’s Software Needs | Part 1
<p><strong>In this two-part Interview with Hi-School Pharmacy’s Gina Jacobus, we find out about how the pharmacy's technology needs have evovled as it embarks on a renewed growth path.<br></strong></p>
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A Growing Pharmacy’s Software Needs | Part 2
An Interview with Hi-School Pharmacy’s Gina Jacobus
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CT: So workflow is important, but so is flexibility in how you can set it up. What are your next steps now that you’ve got the conversion complete?
Jacobus: Our...
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