Pharmacy Business

Many specialists ignore the requirements in the schedule of benefits and expect family doctors to deal with follow-up care, ordering tests and admin work, argues Dr. Adam Stewart.

McKesson owns independent pharmacies I.D.A., Guardian, Remedy’sRx, The Medicine Shoppe, Uniprix and Proxim, the Rexall Pharmacy Group and Well.ca.

Canada's leaders would do well to refer to Albert Einstein's definition of insanity, because this new healthcare funding smells like old promises our government failed to keep, years ago.

The community pharmacist is well poised to recognize the patient population who would benefit most from COVID-19 antivirals, is able to employ strategies to address DDIs related to this therapy and contribute to improved patient outcomes using their unique knowledge and skills.

The ‘complete retail pharmacy experience’ has a way of bringing out the pharm-grumpies. But take heart, there is an antidote. Not a pill (or a suppository like you were thinking – yes, you were), but it does involve looking inside and doing a little pharmacist-introspection.

In our series of blogs about benchmarking, we’ll discuss the best ways to answer a couple of vital questions about your pharmacy business: How much should you be spending on wages? And how do you know if your pharmacy’s departments – front-of-store and dispensary – are profitable enough?

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly said in the opinion that drug companies had failed to prove that a federal rule allowing states to import medicines would create a “concrete risk of harm” for them.

You would think that leading down is the easiest form of leadership, and perhaps it is. But consider this: if it is supposed to be so easy, why is it so hard? Why is it so challenging?