From Drug Topics: Information about evolving technologies and their use in hospital pharmacy settings
July 1, 2009
By:Martin Sipkoff
Controversy has surrounded the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) since their introduction as a tool of interventional cardiology in 2003. Studies released that year associated DES with increased risk of blood-clotting several years after implantation, and use declined. Since 2007, when the FDA concluded that DES could be appropriate therapy for some patients, intense scrutiny has produced little evidence that DES carry more risk than bare stents do.
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July 1, 2009
By:Valerie DeBenedette
Healthcare institutions are attacking medication errors with expanded use of information technology, drug-dispensing systems, and computerized ordering. Other technologies enable healthcare providers to see all information pertaining to a given patient, regardless of the providers' location within the system and no matter what program was used to collect the data.
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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:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
CVS, Merck, and Pfizer are just a few of the pharmaceutical heavyweights working together to electronically trace pharmaceutical products through the healthcare supply chain.
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June 4, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
Going green is one of the biggest consumer and commercial trends of this generation. With that in mind, Parata Systems decided to take one step toward becoming greener.
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May 29, 2009
By:Drug Topics staff
The disparity in coverage between oral and IV drugs/hospital procedures is getting legislative attention at the federal and state level.
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April 1, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
The pharmacy at Cook County's Oak Forest Hospital near Chicago has been expanded by 2,300 square feet, resulting in great improvement in efficiency and speed of operations.
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April 1, 2009
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
In a pilot telepharmacy project, the health center in Plainfield, Vt., is the site of an automated dispensing cabinet filling prescriptions sent in from five different rural health centers.
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April 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart, Contributing Editor
With violence against pharmacists mounting across the country, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) initiates a long-range study.
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