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.
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.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
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 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.
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.
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.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
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.
The company's business model relies on working with independent pharmacies and focuses on patients taking multiple prescription drugs daily.
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.
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.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
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 this still a thing? How is it that pharmacists routinely aren't checking for drug-drug interactions?
The co-founders of Capsule Pharmacy want to eliminate the inventory problems and delays in filling prescription medication.
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.
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