PHARMACIST STEVE

(right mouse click to open in new tab/window & enlarge) I got this in my email today… It would seem that WAGS has gone a different direction in the auto-refill game, which may be a better way than the mess that a couple of the other chains are doing… because there is no filling/billing a […]

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http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/Pharmacy/newsletters/2013/VA022013.pdf During the June 2012 full Board meeting, the Board expressed concern for several identified contemporary practices such as the advertising of a guarantee for how quickly prescriptions will be dispensed, or corporate production quotas regarding prescription dispensing or immunization administration. However, the Board determined that there was insufficient evidence proving that the identified practices […]

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http://www.chaindrugreview.com/front-page/newsbreaks/cvs-adds-to-pharmacy-advisor-program CVS adds to Pharmacy Advisor program From the Article: Under the condition-based program, pharmacists are alerted when patients don’t follow their medication regimens or have a gap in care, enabling the pharmacist to intervene with patients and communicate with their doctors in real time. Pharmacists play an important role in the coordination of care […]

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I have noticed that there are basically four categories of RPH’s  out there. 1. There is the new graduate.. deep in debt from student loans… and willing to do just about anything to get a job.. even if it means taking a pay rate below what they expected. They are fresh out of school.. they […]

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02/05/2013  I am bumping this up to the head of the posting… Pharmacists are starting to contact me and the attorneys… They are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore … It will take as many as possible to row this boat.. Many of you have two write ups already… YOU ARE […]

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/applebees-waitress-fired-pastor-receipt-193820748.html Applebee’s fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about auto-tip I don’t deny anyone the right to make a good living.. and I have  never understood how our system has allowed restaurants to pay employees as little as a couple of bucks a hour.. and expect customers to basically pay the wait staff […]

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http://drugstorenews.com/article/take-care-health-collaborates-indiana-health-system-better-patient-care Here is a article from DRUG STORE NEWS  About Community Health Network in central Indiana and Walgreens.. A little back story… Walgreens sought and got permission to have 20 odd stores to be converted to their “Pharmacist out front format” in Indianapolis… also the state legislature granted the state BOP to change the tech […]

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I have heard a rumor out there.. that there are some facilities that are trying to implement a new computer/EMR system and it is suppose to communicate with the pharmacy software package thru a interface. In the computer world.. two computers can communicate in two different manners.. one is interfaced… which is basically that the […]

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Those of you who work for a corporation, you probably know that your employer keeps a file on you.. and many of the things in that file.. has you signature on it.. acknowledging that you are aware of what is being put in your file. How many of you maintain a file on your employer’s […]

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Personally I am getting weary of all the headlines and news stories about “drugs kills people/persons”…. “guns kills people/persons”… What we seem to “skip over” is the following: Tobacco use kills people .. some 440,000 per year Alcohol use/abuse  kills people some 145,000 per year Texting/talking on the phone while driving kills people Cars kill […]

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