- ASHP named program provider for BPS (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists will provide review courses and recertification resources for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties
- Documenting Indication Improves Antibiotic Prescribing (pharmacytimes.com)
Requiring…a reason for prescribing an antibiotic could curb overuse…researchers...piloted an antimicrobial stewardship program…have been shown to shorten hospitals stays and decrease readmission rates…lower morbidity and mortality…importance of having a pharmacist…in that antimicrobial stewardship...
- Who Will Take The Lead On Herding Patients’ Medical Records? (forbes.com)
Your…healthcare data is…scattered throughout the medical universe,…from notes scribbled…to test results resting in far-flung computer systems…to pull that information together…is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami… which type of organization will take the lead on a patient-data integration system…?
- Provider Status Movement in Ohio (youtube.com)
John Moorman, PharmD, BCPS, Pharmacist at Akron General Medical Center in Ohio discusses the Provider Status Movement in Ohio.
- A better road to data interoperability? (healthcareitnews.com)
Instead of building integration and countless interfaces, new tools aim to fix the workflow problem on top of the electronic health record … "Having the government mandate interoperability is completely wrong,"…"I think we should let the market drive it – and the market says physicians want a single workflow."..
- GSK doubles down on Singapore continuous processing plant (fiercepharmamanufacturing.com)
GlaxoSmithKline…plant in Singapore…is ready to embark on a £38 million expansion…build a downstream isolation facility at the site, one of the world's largest amoxicillin API facilities,…to increase production by about 50%.
- Your Hospital Could Be Marking Up Costs 1,000 Percent (forbes.com)
Imagine opening up your hospital bill and being shocked…Some markup on costs is probably expected…average hospital charges about 3.4 times the cost of a procedure…researchers… found that the 50 hospitals charging the most for their services are marking up prices 1,000 percent over Medicare-allowable costs.
- Pharma industry warns on threat to Greek drug supplies (ft.com)
Europe’s pharmaceuticals industry has warned that drug supplies to Greece could be jeopardized if the country leaves the euro, and called for urgent action from Brussels to help prevent shortages...."which would create a risk to public health,"...
- Urgent care, mental health in defense bills (militarytimes.com)
…lawmakers hashing out a compromise on their respective defense policy bills will mull over several military health provisions as they finalize the legislation...access to urgent care..medical appointments, mental health services...pharmacy fees and birth control...fees would rise substantially...for nearly all types of medications, including generics.
- Patients Want to Facebook Message Their Providers (pharmacytimes.com)
Facebook messages or e-mails would be convenient ways for…patients to communicate with their health care providers...a recent online survey, 37% retail pharmacy customers…that they had contacted a physician via e-mail…18% had attempted the same via Facebook.