Health Care Outlook 2023: Ilisa Bernstein, APhA
The pharmacy profession and patient care services delivered by the pharmacy team have evolved significantly over the past few years, bringing new opportunities and challenges.
Opinion
Health Care Outlook 2023: B. Douglas Hoey, NCPA
New, exciting trends are emerging in community pharmacy practice, but what’s past is still prologue. Sal D’Angelo, a past president of the National Community Pharmacists Association/National Association of Retail Druggists, was the first person I heard say, “Get into politics or get out of pharmacy.
Health Care Outlook 2023: Chip Davis, HDA
As we welcome 2023 and the beginning of the 118th Congress, HDA pharmaceutical distributor members’ role as a convener within the health care ecosystem will be more important than ever.
Health Care Outlook 2023: Steven Anderson, NACDS
An article by McKinsey & Co. describes the current era with the words: “Return, Reimagine, Reinvent.” I cannot think of better positioning for our industry and for NACDS specifically in the association’s 90th Anniversary year. Our industry can look at the word “Return” from two angles.
Three challenges for the industry in 2023
No one knows for certain what the new year will bring for chain pharmacy operators.
Retailers need to promote ‘food as medicine’ concept
While it may be difficult to imagine, shoppers are becoming even more health- and nutrition-conscious than they already are.
The common goals of health care providers and retailers
There’s never been a better time for health care leaders to think outside the [big] box. According to consulting firm McKinsey, health care providers are experiencing a confluence of forces driving a significant move from inpatient care to: • Distributed settings of care.
Self-care is playing a major role in retail’s future
which inspires consumers to embrace proactive life choices through investment in accessible wellness and better-for-you methods —
Retailers looking at new health care solutions
Has anyone in the chain drug retailing community visited the new Wegmans in Brooklyn? Has anyone been to Dallas, Ga.
NCPA aims to change Rx payment model
This space in the last issue of Chain Drug Review was devoted to the alarming results of a survey conducted by the National Community Pharmacists Association that show 58% of independent drug store owners think it is either somewhat or very likely that continued downward pressure on pharmacy reimbur
New shifts in health care providing opportunities
The phrase “inflection point” is overused, but there is no other way to describe where we have arrived in the consumer health care market in 2019, which is why Nicholas Hall, founder, executive chairman and creative solutions director of the Nicholas Hall Group of Cos.
Innovative ingredients are hitting the mainstream market
elderberry, coconut oil, charcoal, melatonin and CBD. In Europe, elderberry has been used for centuries, but in the U.S. it’s been slower to gain traction, partly due to the virus that nearly decimated the
Walmart ‘experiment’ is the store of the year
The mass retailing community is abuzz over Walmart’s most recent initiative, the opening earlier this fall of an innovative health care facility in the small Georgia town of Dallas, northwest of Atlanta.
The real life threat of ‘phantom’ DIR fees
The nation’s independent pharmacies are under severe stress and, unless the economic conditions in which they operate change dramatically, many of them could begin to disappear from the scene.
The cloud of opioid abuse will not be permanent
Some considerable time has passed since the retail and wholesale drug store business has found itself on the wrong side of the headlines, allegedly the perpetrator of offenses it usually defends against or, at the least, is ignorant of.