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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- For more than a decade electronic prescribing has been a goal of community pharmacy operators. By promising to enhance patient care while streamlining operations the concept was [...]

One of the most logistically challenging areas of the hospital for medication distribution is the operating room (OR). This is particularly true for institutions such as the Erie County Medical [...]

Byline: Matthew DoBias A person you might not expect to be is an authority on e-prescribing. Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned hospitals and [...]

Kalorama Information's recent study reports that the world market for drug discovery informatics products will exceed $1 billion in the next three years. Entitled 'Informatics in Drug Discovery: The Evolving [...]

Business technologists often start working on problems before they know what the final answer will look like. In the movie industry, Sony is tackling the early stages of designing a […]

Terms related to pharmaceutical drugs and phishing scams topped the list of the most widely sent junk e-mail subject lines used by spammers this year, America Online Inc. said Wednesday. […]

In an age of large, linked databases, is there still a role for a system of spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions? The problems associated with reports are well-known: poor [...]

Doctors are finally starting to use hand-held computers for sending prescriptions due to concerted efforts taken by the organizations in healthcare and government. Their wider use of e-prescribing might be more of a mixed bag for drug makers and retail drug stores as more patients might take their medicine but retail druggists fear that e-prescribing will make it easier for doctors and patients to get prescriptions to the mail-order pharmacies of PBMs like Medco.

NEW YORK -- Patients want pharmaceutical companies to reach out to them through additional digital channels and to offer more value-added services, according to an Accenture survey of 2,000 American [...]

NEW YORK - Whether in the form of software that works with integrated printers, databases that feature drug files and drug icons, or systems that develop literature on health promotions [...]

The FDA has launched a web page to provide consumers with information on how to dispose of select medications. The program focuses on proper ways of discarding high-potency opioids and [...]

Drug network: Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says the government will pump $31 million over 4 years into ongoing development of a national Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network that aims [...]

A large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs, as well as a set of drug-like small molecules, will be transferred to the public domain. The research [...]

Critics charge that Health Canada's recently minted Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Information System (CADRIS) is user-unfriendly and downright uninformative, in that it doesn't allow physicians or patients to determine the [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Despite high hopes that computerized medication ordering and monitoring systems can help hospitals reduce errors in drug prescribing and administration, recent analyses find just the opposite may […]

Founded in 1993, Prescription Solutions is one of the industry's leading pharmacy and medical management companies, serving managed care organizations, employer groups and third-party administrators nationwide. Altogether, Prescription Solutions provides [...]

Patients aren't always forthright when talking to their doctors--a fact that often can lead to serious problems. If patients, for example, don't disclose the number of prescription drugs they are [...]

NATIONAL REPORTS--One compromise in the final Medicare bill calls for building a voluntary electronic prescribing program, instead of requiring health plans to establish such systems. The legislation instructs HHS to […]