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Tools to boost outcomes, cut costs, are imperative

Tools to boost outcomes, cut costs, are imperative

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

How Walgreens successfully introduced contactless service in the wake of COVID-19

How Walgreens successfully introduced contactless service in the wake of COVID-19

  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

Epidemics collide: the coronavirus and opioid abuse

Epidemics collide: the coronavirus and opioid abuse

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

Retailing and masks: off again, on again

Retailing and masks: off again, on again

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.

AmerisourceBergen acclimates to the new normal

AmerisourceBergen acclimates to the new normal

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

CVS expands same-day delivery, tests robotic service

CVS expands same-day delivery, tests robotic service

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

Chains reopen stores after unrest

Chains reopen stores after unrest

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

Barra and WBA adapt to new realities

Barra and WBA adapt to new realities

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

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