July 27, 2020 by Maureen Meyer
Maureen Meyer is vice president of product management at McKesson Pharmacy Systems., McKesson Pharmacy Systems
July 27, 2020, Opinion, Technology
While COVID-19 has changed a great deal of process and procedures, it hasn’t changed the fact that patient care is still front and center. With more states continuing to allow some level of prescribing by pharmacists, continued partnerships with payers in a true value-based model of care requires thinking outside the box on how to
July 27, 2020 by Lindsey Allen
COVID-19, Lindsey Allen, Walgreens, Zebra Technologies Corp.
July 27, 2020, Opinion, Technology
Even as states across the U.S. begin to reopen and customers venture back into stores, retailers are far from going back to business as usual. It’s a time of experimentation in retail, as the COVID-19 pandemic speeds up innovation and introduces shoppers to new devices and conveniences, many of which may become permanent fixtures
July 27, 2020 by Amy Boring and Stephen Cummings
COVID-19, opioid epidemic
July 27, 2020, Opinion, Uncategorized
As prescription drug abuse has grown into the “opioid epidemic” we are currently faced with, the Drug Enforcement Administration and state regulatory and law enforcement authorities have significantly ramped up their enforcement efforts across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain. For pharmacists, there has been an increased focus on a pharmacist’s “corresponding responsibility” to prevent the
July 27, 2020 by David Pinto
COVID-19
July 27, 2020, Opinion
Retailing, it can be safely and accurately argued, appears to have emerged as the least cohesive segment of the U.S. business community. A case in point: the brouhaha over the wisdom of compelling customers and staffers to wear protective masks while on the premises. By any standard of measurement, wearing masks will do no harm.
July 27, 2020 by Ed Rowland
Canadian pharmacy, COVID-19, Ed Rowland
July 27, 2020, Opinion
Francisco de Quevedo, a cynical sharp wit of 16th century Spanish literature’s golden era once commented that “not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called.” The same could be said of the present U.S. situation with imported online prescription medicines. To many, this is called the “Canadian
July 27, 2020 by Inna Kuznetsova
1010data, COVID-19, Inna Kuznetsova
July 27, 2020, Opinion
Through the ongoing turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have found themselves innovating at an unprecedented pace, whether to address surges in demand for certain products, or ways to get it where it was most needed, fastest. For example, in the thick of early shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical and other frontline
July 27, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)
July 27, 2020, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) said its financial results for the fiscal 2020 third quarter, which ended May 31, were significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Prior to the pandemic our financial performance for fiscal 2020 was on track with our expectations. However, this unprecedented global crisis led to a loss in the
July 27, 2020 by B. Douglas Hoey
B. Douglas Hoey, NCPA, pharmacy
July 27, 2020, Opinion
The more than 20,000 community pharmacies in the United States serve as a patient safety net for their communities during normal times and during times of emergencies. Hurricanes Sandy, Michael and Katrina. Tornadoes. Floods in the South and Midwest. Wildfires in California. The coronavirus we’re currently facing has been a bit different from some of
July 20, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Chris Dimos, Health Mart, McKesson
July 27, 2020, Opinion
With the end of a career spanning almost four decades of involvement in community pharmacy close at hand, Chris Dimos remains as optimistic about the business and the meaningful contributions it can make to health care delivery as when he earned a pharmacy degree from Purdue University in 1988. Dimos — who announced earlier this
June 29, 2020 by Bill Schiffner
AmerisourceBergen, COVID-19, Rich Tremonte
June 29, 2020, Leading Headlines, News
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — During these trying times, AmerisourceBergen Corp. continues to play a vital role feeding the health care supply chain and, through its global pharmaceutical health care businesses, helping combat the ongoing spread of COVID-19. Rich Tremonte, executive vice president and president of community and specialty pharmacy at AmerisourceBergen, says that, like every
June 29, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
June 29, 2020, News
NEW YORK — For an event to grab headlines and shift focus from the COVID-19 pandemic it would have had to be of historic proportions, and that’s exactly what unfolded shortly after the video surfaced of George Floyd dying at the hands of Minneapolis police. The ensuing unrest has spread at a pace to rival
June 29, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
CVS Pharamcy, CVS same-day delivery, DoorDash
June 29, 2020, News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Pharmacy has launched a new partnership with DoorDash that will offer consumers the opportunity to have over-the-counter medications, grocery products and other items delivered to their front door as part of same-day delivery services. These expanded delivery services are intended to allow customers to continue shopping while staying safely at home
June 29, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens
June 29, 2020, News
NEW YORK — Many businesses, including retail drug chains, damaged or destroyed during some of the protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd are feverishly attempting to repair and reopen. For instance, some 400 CVS Pharmacy locations across 25 states have experienced varying levels of damage over the past few weeks from
June 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Woldt
Ornella Barra, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)
June 29, 2020, Opinion
One characteristic Ornella Barra has evinced throughout her career in community pharmacy and drug wholesaling is the ability to adapt to changing conditions. That talent has served Walgreens Boots Alliance’s co-chief operating officer well in recent months: Both before and after the emergence of COVID-19, she has been a catalyst for innovation. A good example