- Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals (healthcareitnews.com)
...five million medications have been tracked using radio frequency identification technology. system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside, patient safety has been greatly enhanced. "It's cutting down on medication errors,..
- 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.
- Profits in the 2015 Fortune 500: Manufacturers vs. Wholesalers, PBMs, and Pharmacies (drugchannels.net)
…annual review of the latest Fortune 500 list. Every year, …"follow the dollar" and understand how drug channel intermediaries make money…. I explore the profitability and shareholder returns of the largest drug wholesalers, chain pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
- Top 5 ways bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics (formularyjournal.modernmedicine.com)
Antibiotics, antivirals, and other antimicrobials are losing their effectiveness…Treating resistant infections costs the US healthcare system an estimated $21 billion to $34 billion annually,...../Injudicious use of antibiotics, /Prescribing antibiotics that are too broad-spectrum, /Prescribing antibiotics for too long a duration, /Prescribing antibiotics without diagnostic testing, /Using antibiotics in animals.
- 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."..
- Egalet says drug less likely to be abused than other painkillers (reuters.com)
Egalet Corp…data showed its experimental painkiller was less likely to be abused than a form of morphine already being sold…study showed recreational opioid users did not like and were less prone to snort the company's painkiller, Egalet-001, than MS Contin.
- NABP to maintain state access to its PMP program (chaindrugreview.com)
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy will continue to fund access by state prescription monitoring programs to interstate data from its PMP InterConnect program. State PMPs will be able to participate in the program at no cost through June 2018.
- 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…?
- Pfizer (PFE) Stock Falling on Study Possibly Linking Viagra to Melanoma (thestreet.com)
Shares of Pfizer are falling… as a new study finds that taking several erectile dysfunction drugs may pose an increased risk of developing melanoma,.. The study,.. involved men who filled one prescription for the drugs 'Viagra,' 'Cialis,' and 'Levitra.'…found …a 21% higher chance of developing melanoma compared with men who did not take these drugs
- McKesson Announces 2015 Pharmacy of the Year Winner at McKesson ideaShare (businesswire.com)
Marble City Health Mart Pharmacy, located in Sylacauga, Ala., has been named the 2015 Pharmacy of the Year grand prize winner by McKesson Corporation. McKesson’s Pharmacy of the Year award recognizes independent pharmacies that are best-in-class in a range of areas including innovative approaches to their business and outstanding service to their community.