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  • Albertsons, HCSC team to tackle adherence
    Customer-owned health insurer Health Care Service Corporation has launched a multi-phase program called Pharmacists Adding Value and Expertise in collaboration with Jewel-Osco, Safeway and Albertsons Pharmacies in Illinois, Montana and New Mexico, as well as with the Texas Pharmacist Association. The move represents the company's effort to help improve medication adherence rates with its Medicare and dual-eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) members.
     

  • McKesson streamlines workflow with EnterpriseRx 7.0 release

    MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — McKesson Pharmacy Systems on Monday announced the 7.0 release of EnterpriseRx, a cloud-delivered pharmacy management system that fully integrates promise-time workflow for prescription processing, centralizes data for pharmacies with multiple sites and incorporates a wide array of McKesson and vendor partner solutions to provide seamless adherence, clinical and business services.

  • FDA approves Propeller platform for use with GSK’s Ellipta
     MADISON, Wis. — The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Propeller Health’s Propeller platform — a leading digital solution for respiratory medicine — to be used with GSK’s Ellipta, its dry powder inhaler. 
     

  • Arete looks to PrescribeWellness for patient communication, med sync
    IRVINE, Calif. — Prescribewellness and pharmacy services administrative organization Arete Pharmacy Network on Thursday announced a new partnership that will bring PrescribeWellness’s solutions to Arete Pharmacy Network’s independent community pharmacy partners. 
     
    Through the partnership, PrescribeWellness will be Arete Pharmacy Network’s preferred patient communications and medication synchronization provider. 
     

  • Ateb convenes Community Pharmacy Advisory Board
    RALEIGH, N.C. — Ateb on Wednesday announced that it had convened its Community Pharmacy Advisory Board in an effort to foster through leadership about the issues facing community pharmacy and suggesting solutions that would drive profitability. 
     
    Among the big changes the board envisioned for the future of pharmacy was pharmacogenomics testing, which pharmacies can now offer through Ateb’s solution to help identify how patients metabolize their medications and maximize the benefit of patients's medications. 

  • PrescribeWellness sponsors National Open Enrollment Week 2016
    IRVINE, Calif. — PrescribeWellness on Wednesday announced its continued sponsorship of National Open Enrollment Week, which runs Nov. 14 to 18, during which time Medicare-eligible seniors look to
    National Open Enrollment Week is a nationwide event designed to encourage Medicare-eligible seniors look to their pharmacist to help choose a prescription drug plan. 
     

  • QS/1 releases PrimeCare interface with Therap
    SPARTANBURG, S.C. — QS/1 on Friday released a new pharmacy-to-agency interface for electronic records and documentation provider Therap, which is used in long-term care environments for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 
     

  • Study: CLIA waivers can empower pharmacists to fill PCP care gap

    FAIRFAX, Va. - Pharmacists and lab technicians are capable of absorbing the additional health management responsiblities currently being created by the reduction in primary care physicians, according to a new study published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the physician shortage could reach as high as a shortage of 20,000 primary care physicians by 2020.

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