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The Value of a Medically Integrated Pharmacy to Maximize Cost Avoidance and Reduce Waste of Oral Oncolytic Medications

Pharmacy Times

This research shows the impactful interventions implemented within a medically integrated pharmacy (MIP) model, specifically focusing on how oncology-trained nurses can leverage comprehensive chart reviews and reassessments to identify discrepancies before medication dispensation, ultimately leading to substantial cost avoidance and waste reduction.

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To Combat Medication Errors, Proper Pharmacy Inventory Counts Are Essential

Pharmacy Times

Medication dispensing errors and prevention. Pharmacy internal controls: A call for greater vigilance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmacy (Basel). 2020;8(4):216. doi:10.3390/pharmacy8040216 3. Tariq RA, Vashisht R, Sinha A, Scherbak Y. National Library of Medicine. Last Updated February 12, 2024. Pharmacist. Medi-Dose, Inc.

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More Diversion Cases and WCF’s Opioid & Fentanyl Abuse Management Summit

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

We learned this week that Palomar Health, one of California’s largest healthcare districts, agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve allegations that numerous vials of fentanyl had been diverted from automated medication dispensing machines over a five-month period and that the hospital did not properly dispose of unused fentanyl.

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New Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Expanding Opportunities for Medical Product Innovations

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FDA launched this challenge in 2018 to foster the development of medical devices aimed at addressing the opioid crisis, preventing, and treating Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). FDA selected and posted eight challenge participants, which included monitoring, OUD therapy, pain therapy, medication dispensing, overdose therapy, and diagnostic devices.