- Changes Ahead for Specialty Pharmacy Patients (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Ron Lanton …. discusses how the specialty pharmacy landscape will evolve in the coming years.
- Novartis exec: Pharma culture can be stumbling block to creativity (mmm-online.com)
When it comes to creativity in advertising, pharma is holding itself back in some cases. It's not always regulation or concerns about legal risks. Sometimes, a drugmaker's internal conservative culture is the biggest hurdle to overcome,…
- EXTREME essentials for interoperability (healthcareitnews.com)
Defining use cases for open EHRs. two health IT researchers put forth five use cases that help define what an "open" electronic health record should really look like….meant to help five distinct types of people: clinicians; researchers; administrators; software developers; and patients.
- Military contractor’s Virginia medical license revoked (washingtonpost.com)
The medical license of a government contractor was revoked Friday after Army medical students testified about a series of bizarre, invasive and sexually tinged battlefield-trauma procedures he subjected them to.
- NIH Plots out Path Forward After Disastrous FDA Inspection (raps.org)
..National Institutes of Health says it is working quickly to figure out how to correct major deficiencies uncovered by the Food and Drug Administration last month at one of its drug compounding facilities…4 June 2015, NIH issued a statement saying it had "suspended operations" at its Pharmaceutical Development Section following an inspection…
- Mobile’s role in healthcare is still experimental (mmm-online.com)
…mobile technology in healthcare is still widely considered experimental, but increasingly sophisticated mobile apps and wearable technologies are believed to be promising new tools that will drive behavior change and improve people's health.
- Hospital employee indicted for fraud after swiping data of 12K (healthcareitnews.com)
A former employee at a major New York health system has been indicted, along with seven others, for stealing personal data of 12,000 patients, enabling more than $50,000 in fraud....swiping patient data and supplying it to an identity theft ring.
- Medical tourism expertise helps Thailand cope with MERS (newsdaily.com)
Thailand’s status as a hub for medical tourism could be helping the country contain the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome,…Tourism accounts for about 10 percent of the Thai economy, and the country is also the top destination in Southeast Asia for patients seeking low-cost, quality healthcare,…..
- GSK sells two vaccines to Pfizer to ease competition concerns (newsdaily.com)
GSK agreed to sell the two older vaccines, which are marketed outside the United States and had combined sales last year of 34 million pounds ($54 million), to meet concerns raised by the European Commission and other antitrust regulators.
- Illicit drugs ‘rampant’ in California state prisons (washingtonpost.com)
California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate and it’s unclear whether the tough steps state officials took this year to stop illicit drugs from getting into prisons are having any effect, though they are prompting criticism from civil rights advocates.