- Will Biosimilars Impact the Cost of Specialty Drugs? (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Michael Zeglinski, Vice President of Specialty Pharmacy Operations at BriovaRx, discusses whether the R&D cost for biosimilars will affect the overall cost reduction.
- Optimizing Insulin Therapy (pharmacytimes.com)
Jessica Kerr, PharmD, CDE, and assistant department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville talks about new strategies pharmacists can use to optimize insulin therapy. (video)
- Top 4 technologies for community pharmacists to watch (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
future of community pharmacy is a high-tech, connected world, where teleprescribing is common and pharmacists share information with patients via smart lenses. At least that is the vision of Dan Benamoz, RPh,..Pharmacy Development Services, a pharmacist training, consulting, and mentoring firm.
- Information sharing via "smart" lens
- Telepharmacy
- Pharmacogenomics
- Radio frequency technology
- Most Health Insurance Co-ops Are Losing Money, Federal Audit Finds (nytimes.com)
Most federal insurance cooperatives created under the Affordable Care Act are losing money and could have difficulty repaying millions of dollars in federal loans, an internal government audit has found,…the inspector general… said that most of the insurance co-ops enrolled fewer people than they had predicted, and that 22 of the 23 co-ops lost money last year.
- Largest Portion of Pharmacy Expenditures Stem from Pediatric Hemophilia Treatment (pharmacytimes.com)
Hemophilia therapies account for 41% of outpatient pharmacy expenditures among publicly insured children with serious chronic illness… records showed that outpatient pharmacy expenditures totaled more than $475 million, or 20% of total health care expenditures…
- Almost All Online Pharmacies Are Unsafe, Unlawful (pharmacytimes.com)
96% of online pharmacies are noncompliant with federal and state laws or National Association of Boards of Pharmacy safety and pharmacy practice standards…Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program revealed that 10,588 of the 11,015 online drug outlets it analyzed were noncompliant.
- N.Y. hospital retail pharmacy aims to cut readmission rates (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, N.Y., recently opened the first fully-functioning retail pharmacy… new 750-square-foot Richmond Pharmacy, which operates independently of the hospital, is expected to decrease the hospital’s readmission rates and improve medication adherence.
- Are biotechs too expensive? (video.cnbc.com)
Jason Kolbert, Maxim Group senior biotechnology analyst, and CNBC's Meg Tirrell discuss the biotech sector and biotech valuations. (video)
- Insurance rate hikes (video.cnbc.com)
What's driving insurance rate increases, with Tenet Healthcare President & CEO Trevor Fetter. (video)
- What Do PBM Pharmacists Do? (pharmacytimes.com)
pharmacy benefit manager jobs are relatively rare,..pharmacists employed by PBMs found the following job aspects..
- most appealing: client interaction, constantly changing issues and challenges, flexible schedule, researching and evaluating clinical studies and peer-reviewed literature, and the opportunity to change pharmacy to a provider profession.
- least appealing: sitting at a desk for 8 to 10 hours a day and day-to-day functions such as answering emails, statistics, and paper work…a lack of direct patient contact.