Pharmacy
To understand what’s really driving Amazon's moves in pharmacy, it’s important to know the back story of Amazon’s $750 million-plus acquisition of PillPack, an online pharmacy for most medications that consumers can get from their local drugstores. PillPack sorts all of a customer’s medications by…
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic increase in internal compounding at many tertiary hospital pharmacies. These increased demands, coupled with intravenous (IV) compounding room space constraints, exposed significant opportunity to…
In February, the American Hospital Association, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists convened organizations representing pharmacists, doctors, hospitals and health care systems, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, State boards of pharmacy and the U.S.…