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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: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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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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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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July 1, 2009
By:Margaret Mulligan, BA, BSN, RN, Editor-in-Chief
Out of every 250 prescriptions written in a day, four result in medication errors. A retail customer stands a 1-in-30 chance of receiving an incorrectly filled medication. For every 1,000 prescriptions, one error is clinically important. The solution, according to pharmacists: Pharmacist-driven initiatives.
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July 1, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
A new Auburn University-designed, high-tech pharmacy in Meridian, Miss., is the first of its kind. Keep reading to learn more about the innovative pharmacy.
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July 1, 2009
By:Alaina Scott, Senior Editor
With the issue of limited and degraded natural resources looming ever larger, some community pharmacies are committed to doing their part for the environment.
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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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