Latest Hospital pharmacy Stories
A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify patients.Information on drug prescriptions are a highly sought after commodity. Pharmaceutical companies like to access this data to fine tune their marketing and sales efforts. Many retail pharmacies in Canada sell their prescription records to commercial data aggregators...
DUBLIN, Ohio, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health today introduced an expanded suite of consulting, analytics and operations services to help hospital pharmacy directors improve cost containment, work flow and patient safety. These expanded services are designed to support pharmacy directors in helping their hospitals address ongoing economic constraints, improve quality outcomes and implement solutions to improve patient safety. Pharmacy directors can customize the...
Dennis Tribble is an expert resource on hospital pharmacy operations, information technology and medication safety issues. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Dennis Tribble, PharmD, is now profiled at the Expert Information for Journalist site -- http://expert411.com/_wsn/page3.html -- for media and professional access. This announcement is made by Marian Robinson, VP Marketing for Baxa Corporation, who says Tribble is Chief Pharmacy Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the...
Dennis Tribble, PharmD, will speak on 'Upstream Processing of Medications' at this year's unSUMMIT, May 6-8, at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- FHT, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baxa Corporation, is sponsoring a professional presentation discussing the accuracy and importance of Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) at this year's unSUMMIT for Bedside Barcoding, May 6-8, in Tampa. The presenter, Dennis Tribble, PharmD, is...
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition -- Omnicell, Inc., (Nasdaq: OMCL) a leading provider of system solutions to acute healthcare facilities, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School located in the heart of Boston's renowned Longwood Medical Area, today announced the planned installation of Omnicell's SinglePointe(TM) automated patient-specific medication management system. With the...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Talyst, a leader in pharmacy automation, today demonstrated InSite(TM), its innovative hardware and software system designed to help central pharmacies provide unparalleled support for extended care environments with the use of remote dispensing technologies. The products were developed in response to hospital pharmacies' increasing need to implement safer, more cost-effective ways to service the long-term care and correctional care environments...
ForHealth Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in I.V. medication safety and hospital pharmacy automation, recently announced the installation of its robotic I.V. dose preparation system, IntelliFill i.v., at Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN. IntelliFill i.v. will enable the hospital's pharmacy to automate its I.V. drug preparation process to reduce medication errors, increase patient safety, and lower costs. The new system was activated in September 2008. Methodist University Hospital...
By Virginia Matthews PHARMACY Today pharmacists aren't just doling out drugs - they're giving medical advice, too. By Virginia Matthews If you think a pharmacist still wears a white coat and just dispenses pills, think again. Changes to medicine in the past decade have seen the profession move to the heart of the health agenda, and pharmacists are in demand across all areas of public health - patient care, product development, academic research or specialist areas such as veterinary...
By TOM BREEN West Virginia's free clinics are balking at proposed rules that would change how they dispense prescription medication. They warn that rules being drafted by the state Board of Pharmacy will make it harder for them to give medication to the thousands of West Virginians without health insurance who rely on the clinics. But the board, which successfully sought the ability to make the rules during this year's legislative session, says the new regulation will improve patient...
By Lora Hines, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Jul. 22--California pharmacists are turning away some Medi-Cal patients whose prescriptions now cost more to fill than the state will cover. On July 1, the state implemented 10 percent across-the-board Medi-Cal payment cuts to most health care providers, including pharmacists, to save the state money and reduce its multibillion-dollar deficit. As a result, pharmacists started losing money on some Medi-Cal patients' prescriptions....
