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Can supermarket pharmacies plug urgent healthcare gaps?

Pharmaceutical Technology

As Asda sets up a nationwide retail pharmacy in the UK and US grocer pharmacies expand, scaling up this model will be the next frontier.

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Are digital pharmacies the answer?

World of DTC Marketing

Digital pharmacies seem to be springing up everywhere. It’s convenient for most but having a CVS pharmacy on almost every street corner allows patients to use drive-throughs to pick up their medications. CVS is competing against several start-up pharmacies that have no physical locations.

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Blue Shield of California drops CVS Caremark in pharmacy benefit overhaul

Bio Pharma Dive

BSCA has kicked CVS Caremark, the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the country, to the curb and is electing to carve out various pharmacy functions with companies like Amazon instead.

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Dispensing Pharmacy Packaging Machines: COVID-19 Impact

Pharma Mirror

The ability to repackage and bar code drugs to the unit of usage is becoming increasingly necessary in health-system pharmacies. Benefits for pharmacies that invest in a high-throughput unit dose packing machine include improved productivity and management of bar-coded medicine stock.

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Elevance to buy Kroger’s specialty pharmacy

Bio Pharma Dive

Major pharmacy benefit managers continue to double down on specialty as a reliable source of business amid a growing crop of pharmacy upstarts.

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e-pharmacies informed CDSCO they are only providing online platform connecting users & pharmacies: Minister

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Union ministry of health and family welfare has said that most of the e-pharmacies in the country have informed the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) that they are only providing an online platform connecting the users and the licensed pharmacies, in response to the show-cause notice from the drug regulator sent early this […] (..)

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CVS overhauls how its retail pharmacies charge for prescription drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

Under the new model, CVS’ pharmacy network will price drugs based on the amount the company paid for them, plus a defined markup and additional pharmacist fee.

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