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January 15, 2010
By:Fred Gebhart, Contributing Editor
A webinar examining the pharmacy error that led to the death of a two-year-old girl and the conviction of an Ohio pharmacist criticized the legal system for criminalizing the event as well as the flawed hospital procedures that prevented discovery of the pharmacy tech's fatal error.
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January 15, 2010
By:Kenneth R. Baker, BS Pharm, JD
When pharmacies are planning their quality assurance or continuous quality improvement plans, they need to determine whether their goals are strictly conformity with state and federal requirements, or something more.
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January 15, 2010
By:Fred Gebhart, Contributing Editor
Many independent and small chain pharmacies nationwide are seeing flexible spending account transactions declined, pushing patients out of independent pharmacies and into chains.
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January 15, 2010
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
After settling a lawsuit with the State of New York over the sale of expired products, CVS is involved in a similar suit initiated by the State of Connecticut.
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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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December 11, 2009
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
RxPatrol, an information clearinghouse operated by Purdue Pharma, has teamed up with the National Community Pharmacists Association to offer a 10-minute training video on crime-prevention measures for pharmacy staff.
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December 11, 2009
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
Working with healthcare professionals and the public, the FDA is developing new guidelines for prevention of medication misuse and abuse and other medication errors linked to preventable harm.
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December 11, 2009
By:Christine Blank, Contributing Editor
The House Small Business Committee has passed the Small Business Health Information Technology Financing Act, which could provide up to $10 million in loans to help pharmacies implement HIT. The act is now slated for vote by the full House of Representatives.
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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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