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Pharmacy Fulfillment Considerations in a High-Volume Environment

Drug Topics

High-volume pharmacy fulfillment requires addressing unique factors like demand profiles, prescription throughput, and specialized processing to design a solution to address your specific needs and growth goals. This article covers steps for designing fulfillment solutions, including assessing demand, choosing appropriate automation technologies, and addressing conveyance, packaging, and sortation needs.

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Opinion: Congress called for an ALS moonshot. The plan for it doesn’t leave Earth

STAT

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a congressionally mandated report on how to make amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — a brutal, always fatal condition — a “livable” disease in the next 10 years. Essentially, the committee was tasked with delivering a plan for a moonshot. As a health care innovation expert and someone living with ALS, I have to say that the report barely gets off the ground.

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Weekend ICYMI: June 24 to June 28

Drug Topics

In case you missed it, this week we had news about mosquito-associated health risks, the link between cannabis and COVID-19, user experience in continuous glucose monitoring, and more.

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As Walmart shutters clinics, startup Fabric buys its MeMD telehealth business

Fierce Healthcare

As Walmart shutters its primary care clinics, the retail giant inked a deal to sell its MeMD telehealth business to healthcare technology startup Fabric. | The deal will significantly expand Fabric's reach in the employer market as MeMD provides virtual care services to 30,000 employers and 5 million employees.

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay

Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.

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STAT+: Medicare’s big experiment to fix kidney failure care hasn’t worked so far, studies say

STAT

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage kidney disease. So far, it hasn’t worked, a new study finds. The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) model is a historic effort, both because it’s the largest such experiment in the history of American health care and because, unlike previous CMS Innovation Center pilot prog

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Redefining the Patient Experience: The Critical Role of Pharmacists and Patient Data in Addressing SDOH

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists can also play a role in SDOH by replacing drug delivery with something else, such as food or transportation delivery, according to speakers at the ATOPP conference.

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CGM Roundup: New OTC Approvals, Impact of User Experience, and More

Drug Topics

Catch up on important continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) news from the month of June.

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First intranasal Epipen alternative backed in EU

pharmaphorum

After FDA rejection last year, ARS Pharma closes on EU approval for intranasal epinephrine product for anaphylaxis

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RAPS Convergence 2024 to Feature Session on Accelerating Breakthrough Device Commercialization — Led by HPM Medical Device Regulatory Expert Adrienne Lenz

The FDA Law Blog

RAPS Convergence 2024 is set to host a must-attend session on CDRH’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP), promising attendees an exclusive insight into a pioneering initiative aimed at improving the medical device commercialization landscape. Session Details: A Path to Faster Breakthrough Device Commercialization – CDRH’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP) Thursday, September 19, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Session Leader: Adrienne Lenz, RAC – Principal Medical Device Regula

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Guide Decisions through Drug Development: Localize Critical PTMs at the Sub-Unit Level

BioPharm

Webinar Date/Time: Wed, Jul 24, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.