Cerner, Vectramind enter health care collaboration
Cerner announced Monday it will enter a collaboration with Vectramind Corp. of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop a mobile messaging platform for its clients. Read More »
Cerner announced Monday it will enter a collaboration with Vectramind Corp. of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop a mobile messaging platform for its clients. Read More »
Tim Wentworth, president of company, joins board of directors. Read More »
Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC today announced that Hikma’s founder and honorary life president, Samih Darwazah, passed away Friday at the age of 85. Read More »
In 2014 the North American pharmacy information system market carried a value of more than $1.3 billion and its value is expected to increase to more than $2 billion by 2019, MicroMarket Monitor report said Monday. Pharmacy Information Systems (PIS) is an application used by medication dispensaries to increase patient safety by helping decrease the amount of errors in the dispensing process. It also provides information about dosage times and limits for specific patients based on their age, we Read More »
A report from Express Scripts released at its Outcomes Symposium Wednesday indicates that as medical costs have increased, the number of patients with annual medication costs amounting to $100,000 has tripled over the course of the previous year. Read More »
ABC Laboratories Inc. was named a two-category winner in the 2015 Clinical Research Organization (CRO) Leadership Awards presented by Life Science Leader magazine and based on an annual survey of more than 2,300 industry executives to recognize service providers who were rated in the top 10 percent of CROs. Read More »
Express Scripts said Tuesday that workers’ compensation pharmacy spending increased 1.9 percent in 2014 and a 5.4 percent decrease in utilization assisted in offsetting a 7 percent increase in the cost per prescription. Read More »
The board of directors at Prime Therapeutics LLC has named Jim DuCharme president and CEO, with him starting in that capacity Monday. Read More »
Centene Corporation on Monday announced that NurseWise, its national multilingual nurse triage and health education subsidiary, received full health call center accreditation from URAC, a healthcare accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry. Read More »
Central Rexall Drugs announced on Tuesday that it has accepted access to the United Compounding Management (UCM) High Performance Network. Read More »
An article posted on phRMA’s blog, Catalyst, shares five essential truths about prescription drug spending in the United States. Read More »
Data released on Monday in the 2014 Express Scripts Drug Trend Report showed that new hepatitis C therapies with high prices and loopholes for compounded medications increased U.S. drug spending by 13.1 percent. Read More »
The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute (PBMI), a national organization committed to research and education of pharmacy benefit management, said on Monday that it has hired Sharon Glave Frazee to be its new vice president of research and education. Read More »