Specialty medications helped drive a double-digit gain in total spending on medicines in the United States for 2014, as well as record volume in prescriptions dispensed, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a unit of IMS Health. Last year, U.S. spending on medicines rose 10.
CVS Health is among the supporters of the Surescripts National Record Locator Service, which the health information network announced it will implement with electronic health record (EHR) vendors eClinicalWorks, Epic, and Greenway Health.
Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) plans to present CVS Health and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) with the 17th Annual John Gould Education & Workforce Development Award for their Health Pharmacy Technician Program.
Pharmacists are performing more patient care activities in various health care settings and are spending less time in their traditional medication dispensing role, according to the the Pharmacy Workforce Center’s “2014 National Pharmacist Workforce Survey.
Mylan N.V. has made an unsolicited bid to acquire Dublin, Ireland-based Perrigo Co. plc in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $29 billion.
Below-cost reimbursements continue to squeeze community pharmacies in the wake of generic drug price spikes over a year ago, a new survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association finds.
