Pharmacy Voices

It may not be exciting or cutting-edge except to those of us in information technology, but the pharmaceutical supply chain and pharmacy profession’s operations are tied to an infrastructure that depends on a 10- or 11-digit number, the National...

We both have young children. In the months leading up to their arrival, well-intentioned family and friends generously shared their advice and the experiences they’d had with their own children. They wanted to help prepare us for the change...

Over the course of the year I've interviewed a number of pharmacists who have found ways to expand their practice beyond dispensing. One good example is the collaborative care program John Pugh, Pharm.D., established at his pharmacy, Prosperity Drug. Pugh...

Tomas Diaz, owner SaluMed Pharmacy, in Bay Shore, N.Y. had seen his business outgrow his homegrown POS system. With a high-volume front end and multistore locations, Diaz explains in the July/August Pharmacy Forward his decision to install the Epicor...

I WAS JUST GETTING A PRETTY GOOD IDEA about what to put in my next column when the fire began near our home. It got big, fast. I am now finally able to relax and write. You probably read about the...

I HAVE SPOKEN AT ASAP (American Society for Automation in Pharmacy) meetings in the past about health information exchange (HIE) and the role of the pharmacist in this important component of patient care. In those presentations, I reviewed pharmacy’s role...

THE 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT (Cures Act) was signed into law in December 2016. The law requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to create a pathway for establishing an interoperable exchange of electronic health information....

HERE I AM ADDRESSING DATA SHARING among state prescription monitoring programs (PMPs). This is happening in a big way, thanks to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s PMP InterConnect program. Currently, 45 states have agreed to share data...

THE INTERNET OF THINGS! Quantum computing! Artificial intelligence! Digital detox! What do these terms have in common? They are some of the most popular buzzwords in the technology industry today. The savviest of ComputerTalk’s readers can likely add several more words...

IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the healthcare industry has seen a tremendous amount of merger and acquisition activity. Consider the following proposed corporate couplings: Anthem and Cigna, Aetna and Humana, Walgreens and Rite Aid, Centene and Fidelis, CVS and Target,...