Mexican Rx market offers strong growth opportunities
one with outstanding growth potential for pharmacies that build strong differentiating capabilities. The Mexican pharmaceutical market grew 3% annually over the past few years to reach $14
Opinion
MTM runs into roadblocks
It is said that patience is a virtue. With respect to medication therapy management (MTM) by chain pharmacists, patience has been more a necessity than a virtue. Among and between health care providers, including pharmacists, there have been MTM pilot projects and some test collaborations.
Paradigm shift in mass retailing now under way
The retailing business in the United States may have reached an inflection point during the period around Black Friday, traditionally seen as the start of the holiday selling season.
Questions abound as ’15 draws to a close
and very little was as it had been a year ago. Many of the same familiar faces were on hand, and several of the same retail companies attended. But the yearlong series of events that have
Health care turmoil creates opportunity for Rx
More than five years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, a measure designed to extend coverage to the uninsured and control expenditures, the turmoil in the U.S. health care system shows no signs of abating.
It’s time for drug chains to get creative
again. But the current promotion bears little resemblance to the event that, apparently eons ago, ushered in the Christmas selling season by offering shoppers, for a limited time on the day following Thanksgiving, holiday specials that lured customers into all manner of stores.
Walgreens-Rite Aid deal changes game
The spectacular is becoming so commonplace that even the most astonishing events in chain drug retailing are assuming a ho-hum characteristic. Nothing new here, even if Walgreens has announced its intention to acquire Rite Aid.
Pessina motivates WBA to reach for more
Stefano Pessina is once again changing the face of community pharmacy.
Health care partnerships are wave of the future
The move toward closer cooperation among providers is one of the more intriguing developments in health care, one that promises to improve patient outcomes and limit expenditures in a sector that accounts for almost 20% of the nation’s gross domestic product.
Walmart understands times are changing
and the rub-off impacted the entire retail community. Indeed,
Social media has impact on consumer health care
There are many social media channels, and personal experiences with them vary based on age, interests, technology savvy and more. Depending on one’s interests or information being sought, there are likely a variety of ways to participate or find others online that can relate.
Rx makers should work to reframe pricing debate
health care will be a prominent issue as the process of choosing Barack Obama’s successor
Coming year will be crucial for the industry
As the year 2015 winds down, the chain drug community must face the reality that the coming year will be unlike any that has preceded it. The same drug chains still rule the U.S. landscape. But the content of their character and the face of the people who guide them are vastly different than in
Role of Rx in Canada’s health care system
Every year, Canadians, who have access to one of the most advanced health care systems in the world, spend more than $200 billion on health care, $34 billion of which is on pharmaceuticals.
Health care reform process far from over
The major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been in effect for almost two years now, enough time to undertake an interim analysis of the controversial law’s impact on the health care system.
Industry leaders can still learn from Robinson
The ranks of the founding families, the leaders who collectively framed and built the chain drug store business in America, are thinning at an alarming rate.