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CVS Health and Microsoft alliance: an example of an extended partnership

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In 2008, CVS Caremark, a prescription benefit management company, signed on to use Microsoft’s HealthVault. The 2008 collaboration was on a much smaller scale compared to their current partnership. COVID accelerated coalitions.

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ADHD Prescribing Practices Come Under Question

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

The act was passed to limit illegal and unsafe sales of CS via the internet, but even back in 2008, the act did recognize that there is a place for legitimate prescribing of CS using the internet via a telemedicine visit.

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Before & After: Pharmacy’s Digital Revolution

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The Digital Revolution in numbers: 721 million UK Prescriptions Dispensed in 2005 (Pharmaceutical Journal). billion UK Prescriptions Dispensed in 2022 ( NHSBSA ). 56 UK Online Pharmacies in 2008/9 ( Statista ). 375 and counting…UK Online Pharmacies (DSP’s) in 2022 ( Statista ).

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World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain

Quality Matters

can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should. In 2007 and 2008, nearly 150 patients died and hundreds more suffered serious adverse reactions after they were treated with heparin, a commonly used blood-thinning drug.