Author: Peter

'Patients can actually begin to care for themselves – relieve the burden of the delivery system and get a better result' For those healthcare providers still resistant to technology, you've got a problem on your hands: You're going to be left behind. This is where healthcare it going – with or without you.

The Walmart Foundation….will give away $15.5 million in grants to seven national nonprofits to support free meal and nutrition education programs this summer and throughout the school year. The programs in more than 7,700 communities across the country will help over 1 million low-income children and their families…

Clark County officials want to limit the amount any one person can sell to 2½ ounces,...That would make it all but impossible for shops to have enough to open for business and would make required testing prohibitively expensive,.....

General Dynamics Information Technology,.. was awarded a contract to continue assisting the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services Retiree Drug Subsidy program. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a value of approximately $43.5 million….

Acura Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Healthcare are partnering to develop a product with pseudoephedrine that would be resistant to being used in methamphetamine. Bayer will provide a worldwide license for Acura’s IMPEDE methamphetamine resistant technology for use in an undisclosed product with pseudoephedrine.

…dismissing most of Nikmanesh’s claims,… ruled that the lawsuit “lacked sufficient factual allegations” to support claims that Walmart cheated pharmacists out of work breaks, overtime pay, and did not compensate pharmacists for time spent studying for and completing immunization-training programs…the lawsuit gained new life recently when Guilford denied Walmart’s motion to dismiss it, ruling..

….Oregon is the latest state to recognize pharmacists as health care providers. HB 2028 permits pharmacists to receive reimbursement for performing clinical pharmacy services, enabling them to more fully use their skills and knowledge to treat patients. The law went into effect immediately upon its passage on June 18, 2015.

….long waiting lists for health care shook the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency is facing a new crisis: The number of veterans on waiting lists of one month or more is now 50 percent higher than it was during the height of last year’s problems,….The department is also facing a nearly $3 billion budget shortfall, which could affect care for many veterans.

California pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart, alleging the retail giant cheated her and her colleagues out of work breaks and overtime pay.