From Drug Topics: Business tips and trends for health-system pharmacists
July 1, 2009
By:Drug Topics staff
Two new designs from Scriptchek add extra label space for patient information on prescription vials. The extended tab label more than doubles available label space. On the rectangular vial, three flat sides offer space for additional patient instructions, and its label offers up to four times more printing space.
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June 19, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the ASHP Foundation recently announced a new initiative called the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) to help put a new face on hospital pharmacies across the country.
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June 12, 2009
By:Drug Topics staff
While pharmacies have not been immune to the downturn in the U.S. economy, the overall picture does not appear to be one of gloom and doom. For an update on aspects of the big picture for pharmacy, read on.
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June 4, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
Recently proposed state legislation in Ohio would criminally punish pharmacy staff who did not certain dispensing report errors to patients.
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June 1, 2009
By:Drug Topics staff
A report from Wolters Kluwer Health has found that in 2008 use of brand-name drugs went down while use of generics soared, representing 60 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States. The rate of prescription abandonments also went up, in direct correlation to cost of copay.
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June 1, 2009
By:Amanda Brower, Senior Editor, Centralized Content Group
With many physicians discontinuing delivery of specialty drugs, hospitals must take up the slack. But while access to an outpatient infusion center is of great value to patients, running such a center can be financially hazardous for the provider. Meticulous attention to detail can mean the difference between success and failure.
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May 1, 2009
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
The New York Senate is considering a bill to permit qualifying seniors to obtain their prescription medications from a Canadian pharmacy group. New York pharmacists oppose any plan to take pharmacy dollars out of the state.
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May 1, 2009
By:Liz Meszaros
When state medication therapy management programs (MTMs) tap into pharmacists' clinical skills, patient outcomes improve and drug therapy errors decline significantly.
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