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Top Clinical Services for Boosting Your Pharmacy’s Revenue

Digital Pharmacist

Compounding Offering compounding services allows independent pharmacies to differentiate themselves from larger chain pharmacies, provide personalized care, and address the unique needs of their patients. Compounding helps to expand a pharmacy’s customer base and increase revenue through individualized medications.

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2024 Pharmacy Trends to Look For

Digital Pharmacist

When a store can provide diversified healthcare services, including but not limited to, chronic disease state management, virtual specialty care, infusions, compounding, and MTM services more patients will be attracted to the pharmacy and inquisitive about what it offers.

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How Pharmacists Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Advance Their Practice: Insights From ChatGPT

ID Stewardship

Streamlined Prescription Filling : AI systems can automate prescription filling processes by extracting relevant information from electronic prescriptions, verifying insurance coverage, and generating labels. Faster and more accurate prescription filling leads to increased patient satisfaction.

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Three strategies for managing loss of exclusivity successfully

pharmaphorum

Eli Lilly’s Humalog compound and formulation patents expired in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Between December 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019, 65% of erectile dysfunction prescriptions filled were for Viagra or its generic version 12. RESULT: Pfizer still holds a lead in the erectile dysfunction market even as generics erode sales.

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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. There are also related standards that address a wide range of topics such as packaging, storage and distribution of medicines, the preparation of compounded medicines and prescription labeling.

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The Lilly Digest

Ramblings of a pharmacist

For example, “In the compounding period of 1941, the average pharmacy filled about 5,000 prescriptions a year, approximately 15 a day.” ” I can’t imagine a typical pharmacy filling 15 prescriptions total per day. prescription transaction. In other words, the $55.96

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Why The Pharmacy Profession Wasn’t What I Expected — And How I Adapted Whenever It Got Boring

The Happy PharmD

Furthermore, although the pharmacy labs tried to simulate a retail setting, they stressed compounding, calculations, and consultation. I knew how the pharmacists and the techs scurried around the prescription department. They typed labels, talked to doctors and patients, and focused on the daily number of prescriptions filled.