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IT security researchers have successfully designed a worm that will break into a Mac's operating system, widely considered more impenetrable than its PC counterpart…huge implications for the healthcare industry…but the lion's share of physicians -- nearly 80 percent in fact -- are tapping iOS for digital health… may have some big significance down the road for mHealth security and patient data...

Armada Health Care…announced a partnership with the clinical pharmacy services unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to help improve and provide support for the specialty pharmacy group contractor’s ArmadaOne specialty pharmacy workflow platform…The collaboration will. …support… therapy interventions and clinical protocols..

Injured Workers’ Pharmacy,...announced.. that it has completed the acquisition of Chronic Care, Inc…a workers’ compensation home delivery pharmacy operating exclusively in the State of California… acquisition provides …. entry into the largest workers’ compensation market in the United States with 20% of all workers’ compensation claims and nearly 25% of all U.S. workers’ compensation pharmacy spend.

majority of the nation’s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for having patients frequently return within a month of discharge — this time losing a combined $420 million, government records show…fourth year of federal readmission penalties, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments for every Medicare patient that stays in the hospital — readmitted or not — Since the fines began, national readmission rates have dropped,…

Closer coordination between healthcare facilities and public health departments could save 37,000 U.S. lives over five years by preventing infections from antibiotic-resistant germs and...C. difficile,.."Facilities that work alone cannot adequately protect their patients,"..."Tens of thousands of deaths can be prevented" with tighter coordination.

Sterigenics International LLC …agreed to pay $450,000 to settle allegations by the..Department of Justice…failed to keep and maintain adequate records pertaining to controlled substances,.. failed to comply with the Controlled Substances Act in at least 156 instances..

pharmacy profession has its upsides and downsides…Since everybody is unique with their own qualities, strengths, and weaknesses, some people are more suited to be a pharmacist than others. To allow you to make this judgment for yourself, here are the ten most common downsides to the industry.

1. The Training and Schooling
2. Large amounts of responsibility
3. The Workplace
4. Competition is fierce
5. Unclear Health Forecast for America
6. A PharmD degree won’t make you happy
7. Do you hate problems? Run, don’t walk away from this field
8. The respect you receive may not be equal to your training
9. Standing. Lots of standing in retail
10. Possible jail time

two largest pharmacy benefit managers —Express Scripts and CVS Caremark—have just released their 2016 formulary exclusion lists…CVS Caremark’s 2016 list has 124 products, including 31 new additions. Express Scripts, which is much more public about its strategy, has only 80 products and fewer additions to its list...

Those who fear needles are not likely to want to experience the prick more than once. And even experienced medical professionals can miss a vein sometimes, so it helps to have a little guidance…VeinViewer uses harmless, near-infrared light to show precisely where veins are located and take the guesswork out of the process.

most of the 1990s, Gallup’s annual Honesty and Ethics Poll ranked pharmacy as the most trusted profession…now belongs to nursing… Several factors led to this shift… This comes at a pivotal time for our profession, when obtaining provider status is within our grasp...