Pharmacy Careers

CVS Health highlighted the steps it has taken to hold down drug costs and bring innovative solutions to market to help consumers, in a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, in response to the Request for Information (RFI) on the Trump Administration's Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices.

Cardinal Health named Troy Simons, owner of Foster Corner Drug in Perry, Okla., the recipient of the 2018 Ken Wurster Community Leadership Award.

Cardinal Health celebrated its Women in Pharmacy community, now in its eighth year, at Cardinal Health RBC 2018 in San Diego during two morning events — a leadership forum followed by the annual Mix, Mingle and Mocha Reception. During the events, the Cardinal Health WIP community welcomed the latest chapter to join its ranks — pharmacy owners from Puerto Rico.

Albertsons pharmacies were given agency approval to pilot Idaho’s new prescribing authority, which took effect July 1, making it the first large retail chain pharmacy in the nation to offer these expanded services.

Patrick Blake was most recently McKesson executive vice president and group president of McKesson Technology Solutions from 2009 to 2017.

Pharmacists in Florida can now share cost information with patients, thanks to a new law that took effect July 1.

As it surpasses this milestone, Pharmacy Quality Solutions said its EQuIPP platform would soon feature more performance measures, including expanded measure sets aimed at adherence for such categories as asthma inhalers, antidepressants and antipsychotics.

From patient engagement to inventory management and will-call, opportunities abound for pharmacies to get a technological assist.