For pharmacists, from Drug Topics: News and features for pharmacists about evolving technologies and their use in hospital-pharmacy settings
February 15, 2010
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
Medication therapy management interventions by community pharmacists reduced prescription drug costs by $35 per month on average.
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January 15, 2010
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
Omnicell's new mobile medication dispensing system features a 12-drawer locked cart with two-dimensional bar-code capabilities for patient identification and medication administration.
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December 11, 2009
By:Ned Milenkovich, PharmD, JD
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law on February 17, included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which expands covered-entity and business-associate requirements established by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
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December 11, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart, Contributing Editor
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the Inspector General of the federal Department of Health and Human Services are going after perpetrators of medical identity theft as part of a broader effort to reform healthcare.
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December 11, 2009
By:Ron Rajecki
Respondents to this year's business outlook survey are generally upbeat about the business their pharmacies are doing and their prospects for the coming year.
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October 9, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
A second round of revised quality standards for heparin became effective recently, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention has announced.
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August 27, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
B. Braun Medical Inc. announced recently that it was named Surgery Center Market Supplier of the Year by McKesson's medical-surgical business unit. B. Braun received the award at McKesson's 2009 national sales meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
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August 10, 2009
By:John Klimek, RPh
Pharmacy in the 21st century will be more integrated into provision of health services than ever before. Electronic health records will become increasingly important, as will e-prescribing, prescription data, pharmacist intervention/counseling, and collaboration with other healthcare providers.
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August 10, 2009
By:Liz Meszaros
Tomorrow's pharmacists and pharmacies will need to find ways to increase profit margins by reducing the cost of prescribing, embracing technology, and focusing more on patient counseling, immunizations, education, and other offshoots of their clinical expertise.
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