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Compounded Drugs: Congress Takes an Interest in Growing Compound Drug Industry
Compounded drugs are a new hot issue in the pharmaceuticals industry and in Congress. There are little data about compounding pharmacies, but a new Congressional Research Service brief gives a comprehensive overview. Compounded Drugs Personalize Drug [...]
22 Proven Patient Safety Strategies
Poor quality of care and preventable medical errors are a major cause of high costs and patient suffering. The opportunities for improvement are considerable. In addition, as states and health plans gear up for Health Insurance [...]
Suicide Prevention for Veterans: Suicide Prevention Efforts by the VHA
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in recent months have delivered grim statistics on military and veteran suicides. In a report earlier this year, the VA announced veterans committed suicide [...]
State Tort Liability for Generic Prescription Drugs: SCOTUS Pharma and Biotech Case Previews
Generic drugs have operated under a different set of rules than brand-name drugs since 1984, when Congress passed the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, or Hatch-Waxman Act. Brand-name drug manufacturers must [...]
Patient Safety in Pharmacies: Toolkit to Improve Pharmacy Quality
Health care quality and patient safety have become increasingly important in recent years, particularly as part of efforts to prevent wasteful spending, hospital readmissions, and medical errors. Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), health information technology (HIT), electronic [...]
E-Prescribing: Significant Growth in Electronic Prescribing Use and Adoption
Electronic prescribing in the U.S. is becoming mainstream, with e-prescribing use by physicians quadrupling since 2008. Medication adherence is increasing as a result of increased use of eRx. The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare Year [...]
Electronic Prescribing: Benefits and Challenges of E-Prescribing
A study funded by AHRQ and published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: Experiences of physician practices and pharmacies, identifies both the benefits and challenges with electronic prescribing [...]
Using Health Information Technology for Chronic Disease Management: AHRQ Webinar
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is hosting a free webinar on Using Health Information Technology for Chronic Disease Management. Webinar is set for Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at 11:30 am EST. During the 90-minute conference, participants can watch [...]
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs: Legal, Policy, Market, and Public Health Issues for Potential Bans on DTC Advertising of New Brand Drugs
Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs, especially new brand-named drugs, remains controversial. Some in Congress remain eager to prohibit advertising of brand-name prescription drugs to consumers in the first two years following a drug’s approval by [...]
Pharmaceutical Research & Development in a Value-Based Healthcare System
At the last annual meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, several of us spoke on pharmaceutical research and development in the quickly emerging value-driven healthcare system. Topics focused on the impact of value-based benefit [...]
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