Technology

QS/1, a healthcare solutions provider, has partnered with American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) to help its independent pharmacy members improve their buying power and better compete with larger competitors.

FDA's revamped REMS website enables users to find what they need and download it more easily.

24/7/365 in-house pharmacist coverage can result in a scheduling nightmare and high expense for hospitals. Telepharmacy offers another way to go.

Prescription drug abuse remains a huge problem. One way healthcare workers and law enforcement hope to reduce the problem is by using electronic prescriptions for controlled substances, which helps physicians, pharmacists, and law enforcement officials to track dispensing.

When it comes to using plain language, clearly displaying content, and engaging users, paid mobile applications for managing diabetes are more useful than free ones, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Helping consumers better understand over-the-counter medications they are taking as well as freeing up pharmacists to consult with patients are the primary goals behind a new smartphone application.

Tips for managing pharmacy and business data BEFORE you find yourself caught up in litigation.

If you're waffling on the idea of taking out professional liability insurance, read this and think again.

Paper is about to become history in one of the largest prescription drug markets in the country.

What should pharmacies do to keep patient data and credit- and debit-card information secure? Start with these steps.

Health system implements on-site specialty pharmacy, connects it with healthcare team members through EMR; clinical pharmacist gets out from under a mountain of paperwork; everybody wins.

A new community pharmacy network will connect with 1,800 medical practices that deliver 95% of the primary care in North Carolina.

Ten tips for managing a pharmacy social media account.

Three months after its on-campus pharmacy closed, Arizona State University has introduced a vending machine that will dispense many common medications.

The documents seek to clarify the regulatory process for compounders of sterile human drugs.

Jessica Skelley, PharmD, BCACP, Samford University, discusses the pitfalls pharmacies should avoid while using social media.

A Senate panel is scheduled to hold a hearing on November 20, 2014, to investigate why the prices of some generic drugs are skyrocketing.

Apparently, not everyone is excited about Apple’s new smartphone payment system-Apple Pay. Both CVS and Rite Aid recently both blocked customers from using Apple Pay at its stores, as well as the tap-to-pay mobile payments systems Google Wallet and Softcard.

Chad Leedy, director of retail compliance for ANXeBusiness Corp., discusses what pharmacies need to do to avoid data breaches like those experienced by Target and Home Depot.

Accidents happen. Things go wrong. The unforeseen occurs. A crisis plan can keep a controlled threat from turning into a full-fledged disaster.

Available technology can help pharmacies improve patient adherence, boost patient outcomes, and earn high CMS Star measures. Everybody wins.

Seven out of 10 prescribers use e-prescribing, and virtually all pharmacies are now equipped to receive them.

Independent pharmacists will be better prepared for their new role to enhance patient care and help health plans improve their ratings under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Star Rating system after attending this year’s ThoughtSpot 2014 meeting, Good Neighbor Pharmacy and AmerisourceBergen’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.

McKesson's new Adherence Performance reporting solution will provide actionable data to identify patients more quickly than pharmacies can do using a manual method.

Electronic prescribing of controlled substances isn't much of an improvement over previous practice.

Electronic prescribing was supposed to be the savior of pharmacy. Things haven’t quite worked out that way.

A direct response to the devastating fungal meningitis outbreak linked to NECC, the Drug Quality and Security Act gives FDA needed regulatory power to oversee compounders.

E-prescribing was supposed to reduce prescription errors by eliminating the problem of illegible Rxs. The result? Nowadays prescriptions are easier to read - and just as full of errors.

A brief video, accessed by prescription label QR code scanned with a smartphone, instructs patients in proper drug use and much more.

For one day only, Google will make its Goggle Glass computer available for sales to any adult in the United States. Up until now, the technology has not been available to the general public.