Companies dealing with health care data should intensify efforts and “move from a crawl to a sprint” to help improve the nation’s health outcomes and reduce costs, says Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Walgreen Co.
Challenging the domain of drug chains, Walmart has debuted the first three of its new small-format stores. The 15,000-square-foot Walmart Express units opened this month in Gentry and Prairie Grove, Ark., southeast of the retailer’s Bentonville headquarters; and in Richfield, N.C.
Tim Canning, who as president of Health Mart is credited with playing a leading role in advancing the success of McKesson Corp.’s retail independent pharmacy business, is joining Omnicare Inc. as chief marketing officer.
CVS Caremark Corp. has been awarded a three-year contract to provide integrated pharmacy benefit services for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Government-wide Service Benefit Plan, also known as the Federal Employee Program (FEP).
In a triumph for retailers, the Senate has refused to delay cuts to debit card swipe fees. Despite a lobbying blitz by the banking industry, the Senate let stand new rules curtailing the fees that banks and credit card networks can charge retailers to process debit card transactions.
Walgreen Co. and Rite Aid Corp. continued their same-store sales resurgence in May, which industry analysts said could herald improving results for the drug store sector overall. At Walgreens, comparable-store sales climbed 5.6% year over year in May, up from a 3.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy has added e-commerce capabilities to its Navarro.com website, enabling customers outside south Florida, nationwide and internationally to take advantage of the value proposition in its stores.
Two of the industry’s largest drug store chains have initiated efforts to help their customers stay safe in the sun this summer. Earlier this month Rite Aid Corp.
CVS Caremark Corp.’s MinuteClinics are offering a free diabetes monitoring package this summer.
Steve Pemberton has been named divisional vice president of diversity and inclusion at Walgreen Co. In this role, he also becomes the company’s first chief diversity officer.
Retiring AmerisourceBergen Corp. chariman and chief executive officer R. David Yost has received the 2011 Nexus Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Healthcare Distribution Management Association’s (HDMA) Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research.
The annual Fortune 500 listing of the largest publicly traded U.S. corporations has been published, and community pharmacy, while not a major presence, is nonetheless adequately represented.
Medication adherence has emerged as a hot-button issue in health care.
The Adherence Estimator, a patient segmentation tool developed by researchers at Merck & Co. to help pharmacists and other health care professionals identify and assist individuals prone to medication nonadherence, has proved its worth in a variety of practice settings since its debut last year.
