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Name Brands in the Cannabis Industry
A recent collaboration between Hewlett-Packard and Flowhub has sparked excitement across the industry and has many wondering what the entrance of brand names could mean for the industry. Supporting businesses and industries are growing right...
read moreProviders jittery over ‘Yelpification’ of healthcare
Patients are increasingly likely to use Yelp to rate their care experience and pick a provider, but not all providers have welcomed the influx of anonymous online reviews with open arms. Often, patients prefer Yelp's narrative text reviews to other...
read moreValue-based pay a factor pushing docs to hospital work
One state hospital association has stopped providing an annual seminar to new doctors on starting a practice. AUTHOR- Les Masterson More physicians, especially young doctors, are turning to hospitals for employment rather than running their own...
read moreWho Surrounds You Determines Your Career Trajectory
We understand influence. We learned as far back as high school that our social status relied heavily on the people we spent the most time with: the jocks, the nerds, or the social outcasts. We know that teenagers who spend time with the wrong crowd...
read moreImproving Diabetes Management: Coordinated Care
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, MBA, PhD: What’s your assessment of the effect on the patient—out there in the frontlines, in the community—where you’re seeing that patient many, many times a year, when you have that...
read moreThree Questions About Asthma
Uncontrolled asthma is rampant. When any asthma patient visits the pharmacy to have prescriptions filled, he or she is considerably more likely to have uncontrolled asthma than to have well controlled disease. Community pharmacists should recognize...
read moreGuidelines Discuss Treatment Options for Patients with HIV, Cancer
Disparity in cancer care for patients with HIV and those who do not have HIV is large and significant, and new guidelines released by the The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) aim to ensure that people living with HIV who are diagnosed...
read moreSpecialty pharmacy now runs the healthcare gamut
Specialty pharmacy is no longer simply set apart by the medication it dispenses. As a result of the patients it serves — whose conditions span disease states from oncology and rare diseases to cystic fibrosis and others that require high-cost,...
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