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  • PillDrill named 'Best New Product' at ECRM’s Home Health Care EPPS event
    From left: DSN area manager Alex Tomas, Jacob Guernsey, creative director, PillDrill; Peter Havas, CEO, PillDrill; Dennis Gurka, director sales, PillDrill; Michael Castillo, SVP pharmacy/medical markets, ECRM
     
    DALLAS — PillDrill won this year’s Drug Store News/ECRM Most Innovative Product Award for the Home Health Care category at ECRM’s Home Health Care EPPS event, held here Feb. 21 to 24. 
     

  • FlavoRx unveils new FlavorMaster
    COLUMBIA, Md. — FlavoRx debuted its newest piece of pharmacy equipment — the FlavorMaster — on Friday. Maryland’s commerce secretary Mike Gill, alongside members of Maryland’s Department of Commerce’s Office of Biohealth Technology, attended the unveiling of the reconstituting and flavoring device.
     

  • APhA releases 2016 edition of the APhA Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Digest
    WASHINGTON – The American Pharmacists Association on Friday released the 2016 edition of the APhA Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Digest. The publication shows the continued growth of pharmacists’ patient care services and highlights the expanded roles pharmacists have in the health care system. 
     

  • Innovation, Binghamton’s WISE to cohost Rx operations symposium
    BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Innovation, along with Binghamton University’s Watson Institute of Systems Excellence (WISE, will be holding a two-day pharmacy operations symposium in April to explore ways that pharmacies can adapt to change and improve their operations. 
     

  • DSN/CCA feature retail healthcare webinars

    As retail pharmacy increasingly becomes a healthcare destination, new telehealth models are helping to expand both access to care and the scope of care. Telehealth’s role in retail healthcare delivery was explored by MinuteClinic VP medical operations Tobias Barker as part of a six-part Retail Healthcare Webinar series, produced by Drug Store News and the Convenient Care Association.

  • CMS plan to boost MTM gains traction in Congress

    “Better care, smarter spending, healthier people.”

  • Syncing monthly prescription refills to boost adherence, outcomes

    With medication nonadherence leading to enormous health complications for millions of Americans — and generating staggering and needless cost spikes that add as much as $290 billion a year to the nation’s healthcare costs — the search for ways to get patients to take their prescription medicines as directed has become increasingly urgent.

  • Targeting better patient outcomes through care transitions, adherence

    Here’s a fact that keeps health plan administrators and anyone else responsible for budgeting health costs awake at night: 1-in-5 hospital patients ends up back in the hospital within 30 days of their discharge. And the biggest factors pulling them back all have to do with medications — either through medication errors, nonadherence or adverse drug events.

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