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the National Precursor Log Exchange (NPLEx) is a national database that officially starts in a lot of state this Jan 1st. In Indiana this program was pushed through the legislature by the Indiana Sheriff’s Assoc and the Indiana State Police. Neither the Indiana Board of Pharmacy nor the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance were involved in getting […]
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First it was the stand-off with Walgreens over how much more money they thought they deserved than Walgreens over filling Rxs. As of this writing, it looks like neither one is going to blink or back down. Then there is the issue of them buying/merging with Medco… these two entities generate 2.5 BILLION in net […]
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This week I had an exchange of emails with the director of a state board pharmacy. The discussion was about getting Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals permission to get access to the state’s driver’s license database. There are some 35 odd states that have active and functioning PMP (Prescription Monitoring Program Databases) and have been […]
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http://www.riograndesun.com/articles/2011/12/03/opinion/editorials/doc4ed7a18ae37c7886620621.txt http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/222929/group/homepage/ The writer has notice a difference is recent months of the words used to report deaths by drugs. A year ago, it was not unusual to see a death by drug reported as “accidental”. Now I am seeing that the reports of a person dying from drugs is just stated as a “drug […]
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http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/2089614-walgreens-senior-vice-president-jeffrey-kang-joins-ncqa-board-of-directors http://healthblog.steveariens.com/?p=230 http://healthblog.steveariens.com/?p=108 While I hate to use a few “isolated incidents” to point to a pattern, with seemingly no tracking/reporting of errors and or bogus rxs being filled by pharmacy in general and Walgreen in particular. To have a SVP from Walgreens appointed a group that is concerned about quality issues in medical care, […]
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THE REDHEADED PHARMACIST http://www.theredheadedpharmacist.com/ recently expressed concerns over the sales and diversion of PSE. A couple of years ago the Meth-check system was implemented in the greater Louisville KY area. After a year in place the number of the meth lab busts outside of the metro area was up 75%.. the number of lab busts […]
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Canadian Family in Life Support Battle Denied Request for Hospital Transfer http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/24/canadian-family-life-support-battle-denied-request-hospital-transfer/#ixzz1F1Ia5uTt http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/24/canadian-family-life-support-battle-denied-request-hospital-transfer/?test=latestnews In Canada .. a court … ORDERED parents to remove life support from their sick child… basically ORDERED the parents to KILL THEIR CHILD… apparently all in order to save money.
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Scott proposing repeal of Fla. drug tracking law http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/08/2056957/scott-proposing-repeal-of-fla.html#ixzz1DagHOOu8 Nothing like being the largest state in the country without a active controlled medication drug database and its new governor wants to stop the program before it gets going. Maybe this is the way that Governor Scott is going to help increase tax revenues in Florida… […]
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