2025 and Beyond: Key Trends to Watch in Pharmacy
As we all work to wrap up the year and enter into 2025, here are a few trends to keep your eye on in the coming months and beyond.
AI-Powered Insights for Personalized Customer Experiences: The Art of Data-Driven Engagement
While advanced analytics and AI can unlock unprecedented insights, it's the thoughtful application of these insights that transforms routine interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and healthcare providers into lasting relationships.
Changes in Nurse Staffing Answer Clinician Demands
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
Shifting Focus from Medication Costs to Medication Value
To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.
CVS scheme diverted millions from underserved population, NY AG says
Attorney General Letitia James accused CVS of a scheme starting in 2017 to prevent New York safety net hospitals from using the company of their choice to obtain federal drug subsidies on prescriptions filled at CVS through the 340B program
Becton Dickinson buys into pharmacy automation with $1.5B Parata acquisition
Becton Dickinson is getting into pharmacies with a more than $1.5 billion acquisition of Parata Systems, maker of robotics technologies that automate pharmacy tasks. The deal comes two months after BD completed the spinoff of its diabetes business as a separate, publicly traded company.
With $100M ReCept M&A deal, Omnicell enters growing specialty pharmacy space
Specialty drugs represent a growing share of overall pharmaceutical sales, and Omnicell is acquiring specialty pharmacy technologies company ReCept Pharmacy to enter this market. Omnicell is paying $100 million cash to buy ReCept.
Tackling Rising Drug Costs and Growing Popularity of GLP-1’s
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
Pharmacies to start offering a limited number of Covid-19 vaccines
Walgreens, CVS, Walmart and dozens of other pharmacies will start administering a limited number of vaccines as part of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. It will offer vaccines in medically underserved areas to healthcare workers, people ages 65 and older, and essential workers, according to local guidelines.
Report: Walgreens in talks to acquire one of largest drug distributors — AmerisourceBergen
In a move that could position Walgreens to own one of the largest drug distributors to retail pharmacies and physicians, the retail drugstore giant is in talks with Amerisource Bergen, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Will a concierge service startup make a dent in fulfilling prescription drug orders?
The company's business model relies on working with independent pharmacies and focuses on patients taking multiple prescription drugs daily.
Could Amazon.com really infiltrate the prescription drug market?
There's Amazon Fresh, Amazon Video, Amazon Web Services, and much, much more. Is it just a matter of time then, before the e-commerce giant begins selling prescription drugs? A new 30-page report by Goldman Sachs suggests the potential is definitely there.
Understanding EGPA: The Role of Eosinophils and Advancements in Treatment Options
FASENRA® (benralizumab) injection, for subcutaneous use, 30 mg is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). FASENRA provides a treatment option for HCPs to consider when managing this challenging disease.
Three perspectives on how Amazon could disrupt the pharmacy space
Several health IT companies have sought to address the challenge of drug delivery, distribution and medication adherence, but the dent they've made compared to what the likes of Amazon could do certainly give one pause.
Digital health biz encourages retail pharmacy customers to review their patient experience
RxWiki hired Travelzoo founder Chris Loughlin as its CEO in February -- a move that reflects the continued interest in adopting practices from the hospitality industry,
How is it that pharmacies still aren’t checking for drug-drug interactions?
How is this still a thing? How is it that pharmacists routinely aren't checking for drug-drug interactions?
Is this the Uber of pharmacies? These entrepreneurs think ordering prescription drugs needs a revamp
The co-founders of Capsule Pharmacy want to eliminate the inventory problems and delays in filling prescription medication.
Entrepreneur behind ZipDrug latest example of advertising tech veterans’ interest in healthcare
ZipDrug raised $2 million in a Seed round led by the Collaborative Fund, with participation from other investors such as Lux Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, and BAM Ventures — the fund from Brian Lee, who founded LegalZoom and co-founded The Honest Company with Jessica Alba.