An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Specialty Pharmacy and Accelerating Performance
Top challenges impacting specialty pharmacy outcomes, and how health systems may achieve efficiencies and enhance performance for optimal outcomes.
There is Still a Significant Need for Community Pharmacies
Losing these retail medication outlets creates more than just pharmacy deserts. In many low-income and underserved areas, drugstores also serve as grocery stores and hubs for essential services, and hence their closures mean communities lose crucial access points for a variety of goods and services.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
How Digital Delivery Can Empower Staff and Shape the Future of Pharmacy
if we can shift the way we deliver information, we can change the entire culture of pharmacy in a way that relieves some of the burden on the pharmacists and improves patient outcomes at the same time.
Competitor: We Are an Established Option Vis-a-Vis Cuban’s Pharmacy Startup
A customer of Cost Plus Drugs received an email from the company in October stating that “due to skyrocketing demand,” shipping times have been delayed. Marley Drug, a competitor, said its company has not experienced delays and presented itself as an alternative for Americans.
Capital Blue Cross to bring low-cost pharmacy option to members and non-members in 2023
It is Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company's first collaboration with a health plan. The pharmacy company will not be replacing Capital Blue Cross' existing pharmacy benefits manger, but instead will be an additional option for members to choose.
Dr. B secures $8M to expand new telehealth service for prescription medications
The company, created by the founder of Zocdoc, is focused on providing low-cost and sometimes no-cost care. Currently, it only offers prescriptions for Covid-19 antivirals.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Phox Health aims to bring an ‘on-demand’ mindset to the pharmacy business
The startup provides pharmacy delivery apps and services for health systems and telehealth companies, enabling prescriptions to be delivered to patients in two hours or less.
Direct-to-consumer health company Thirty Madison raises $47M
Thirty Madison, which operates three brands for hair loss, migraines and acid reflux, raised $47 million in a series B round. Polaris Partners led the round, and Johnson & Johnson participated as an investor.
Walmart buys CareZone’s medication management technology
Walmart acquired CareZone’s medication management technology and intellectual property. The purchase is the latest move by Walmart to compete with its pharmacy services.
Survey: A third of patients can’t get appointments as a result of Covid-19
A survey conducted by data analytics company Evidation Health found that nearly a third of people missed or cancelled doctors appointments in the last two weeks. Another 7% of respondents said they weren't able to get their prescriptions.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Startup raises $6M to make it easier to fill specialty scripts
HelpAround raised $6 million in funding from IQVIA and Windham Ventures. The company’s software is designed to make it easier for patients to navigate specialty prescriptions.
Study shows reduction in medication errors using health IT startup’s software
The study estimated 68.2 percent of errors generated by MedAware’s system would not have been detected by existing clinical decision support systems.
DOJ sues CVS subsidiary for prescription drug fraud
The Department of Justice sued Omnicare for allegedly dispensing drugs without valid prescriptions.
McKesson UK acquires British medication management startup Echo
Through its app, London-based Echo, which was founded in 2015, offers prescription fulfillment and reminders to take medications.
Survey: These are the top three healthcare tasks patients complete on mobile apps
Scheduling appointments, viewing lab results and requesting prescriptions emerged as the top three functions patients use mobile apps for, according to a SOTI survey of 552 U.S. consumers.