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Cardinal Health…announced the introduction of the Adherence Advantage program, which features an expanded suite of solutions designed to help retail pharmacies improve medication adherence…

1. Cardinal Health Repackaging Solutions
2. Consumer adherence products
3. Dispill
4. Pharmacy Health Connect
5. Reimbursement Consulting Services

Athenahealth today unveiled athenaText, a secure text messaging service integrated with athenahealth’s cloud-based EHR platform. It is available free…to every healthcare professional across the country. (HIPAA compliant text messaging)

Las Vegas chiropractor (Dr. Timothy Francis) has been disciplined for having sex with a woman who was his student and patient after seducing her by claiming they were married in past lives, according to the Chiropractic Physicians Board of Nevada….on probation for three years,…also undergo testing regarding ethics and the law….

Call for Nominations...the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board is now accepting nominations for the 2015 PTCB Certified Pharmacy Technician of the Year. Nominations are due by August 7, 2015.

National Community Pharmacists Association is ramping up its support of the MAC Transparency Act with real-world examples of how independents are suffering from below-cost generic drug reimbursements…"Independent community pharmacies should not be consistently underpaid for the products and services they offer,"..

Healthcare Management Systems Modernization program is spending $11 billion to transition to a new EHR system, which will support more than 9.7 million beneficiaries,...The current EHR system serves patients and clinicians in 2,300 locations around the world,.." Our primary goal is to support our medical teams and administrators...with reliable tools to support patient safety, high quality care and access to care when they need it,"...

high drug costs has driven more biopharmaceutical firms to seek partnerships with former foes....frugal payers, physicians and patient advocacy groups in the early stages of drug development....goal is to prove real-world drug benefits by linking the cost of care with patient health outcomes rather than the volume of services rendered....

morning sickness drug that Kim Kardashian is hawking has a controversial history… Diclegis,…was once sold under the name Bendectin and was pulled from the market…because it was associated with birth defects…Duchesnay created a new formula.. It is the only antinausea medication approved for use in pregnancy by the FDA..

None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the..Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16. Renown Regional Medical Center..was recognized last year for exceeding key quality measures…In Southern Nevada, most of the acute care hospitals were rated average in the five common procedures studied.

..hospital systems have increasingly developed their own specialty pharmacies to capitalize on the financial opportunities that specialty pharmacy offers... hospital systems are hoping to purchase specialty medications at 340B prices, then bill insurance companies for the higher, nondiscounted cost....