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Pharmacy Information Systems (PIS) have evolved over the years to become a core component of any successful pharmacy operation. Whether it's a hospital setting, a clinic or even a specialty pharmacy business, these complex and sophisticated computer software systems continue to evolve and their func
Why A Pharmacy Consulting Firm? In a traditional independent retail pharmacy setting, many pharmacy owners, Prescription Department Managers (PDM) and Pharmacists in Charge (PIC) ask themselves this question: "Perhaps I could use some expert advice on some of the business decisions that are being ma
Do you have Pharmacy HIPAA compliance policies and procedures at your pharmacy? Are your employees HIPAA certified? HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is always a topic of discussion when patients start asking their pharmacists and physicians for the receipts of their medica
Dispensing errors in pharmacy are a fact of life. Even with the very best policies and procedures in place, an educated and well trained pharmacy staff performing the necessary steps to ensure safe Rx dispensing, plus an experienced pharmacist performing and overseeing the actual prescription dispen
Pharmacy owners are really no different than the owners of any other types of businesses. Everyone can agree that owning a pharmacy presents the owner with some very unique challenges and requires very specialized knowledge when compared to most other industries. However, the basic rules of running
Gag orders placed on retail pharmacies by insurance companies and PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers) hopefully will soon become a thing of the past. For years now both the insurers and the PBMs have restricted pharmacists from telling their patients the truth: that it is often times cheaper for the cu
Pharmacy audits and inspections are a fact of life for every pharmacy and pharmacy owner. It is actually a pretty safe assumption to make these days that your pharmacy will be audited at a minimum of every two years. In this brand new world of computerization, shared databases of controlled substanc
Infusion pharmacies are being seen as perhaps the most lucrative type of specialty pharmacy to startup in the near future. Also frequently called IV infusion pharmacies or home infusion pharmacies, several recent studies are projecting enormous growth in the industry. What may be of critical importa
The majority of healthcare professionals in the pharmacy profession are trustworthy people who find fulfillment in providing such important services to patients and playing an important role working with the other members of the healthcare community. Everyone here at Healthcare Consultants Pharmacy
Drug disposal programs were seen as a significant step forward in the fight against the national opioid crisis when the DEA (United States Drug Enforcement Administration) announced that both pharmacies and police stations were being allowed to collect unused prescription drugs from the public to be
The closing of a pharmacy or the shutting down of a community drugstore is often times a very unpleasant experience. It normally is a very sad undertaking for everyone, including the pharmacy's owners, their staff and the patients who must now get their prescriptions transferred and filled elsewhere
Pharmacy has always been an easy target for the news media in regards to negative news stories and sensationalism. With a journalistic history for 'grabbing" the public's attention, the profession of pharmacy makes for a variety of fascinating news topics on both the national and local levels in the