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EDITORIAL for Monday 19 January 2015
Welcome to the new weekly i2P E-Magazine edition for Monday 19 January 2015. While I believe that 2015 will be a better year for pharmacy, I would only qualify the statement to include the words “for those who pull their finger out”. A crude but effective message! How else do you think things will happen…
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Patient Engagement is Patient Management and Customer Conversion
How often do you openly engage with a patient, particularly when you have a busy dispensing schedule under way and the order in your day is rapidly becoming “disorder”. Eyes averted, you bend your head to avoid eye contact, because that would extend patient engagement, and with that, your day suddenly just deteriorated a shade…
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Rite Aid has the Rite Pharmacy Model for Australia.
It’s nice to have your own research confirmed elsewhere in the world of pharmacy. i2P have long been talking about a “whole of pharmacy” approach to delivering clinical services. Every single aspect of a community pharmacy must dovetail, one with the other so that there is a sustainable effect for the whole. Core Business =…
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Health Station Central – Rebuilding Trust
The community pharmacy environment is really the public face of pharmacy and has been privileged by being protected by legislation. There is an obligation to do the job properly and utilise the space to accommodate highly trained staff to deliver a complete service. There is also an expectation that skilled staff will be paid appropriately…
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Pop-Up Stores might Provide Pharmacy Marketing Opportunity
With a range of retail store becoming vacant because of economic distress, new opportunities present by being able to rent the front windows of these stores at low rentals. Outdoor industry insights reveal that this can create a marketing opportunity for pharmacies. The idea is not new and real estate agents and investors have started…
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Extreme? Not Necessarily
First, think of the consequences. “Extreme discounts” do attract widespread attention, can generate increased sales and revenue in the short-term and therefore, for specific time-periods, have the capacity to redirect traffic flows. But the tactic is fraught with potential intermediate-to-long-term brand damage consequences. Questions about profit margins and value are understandably raised in the minds…
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E-Commerce Giant May Interest Pharmacy Inventors
Health and wellness, apart from providing opportunity in product retailing and the sale of health services, is also a rich source for research projects involving new inventions that represent a vast range of opportunities. Many pharmacists have an inventive component in their make-up and many useful products and services have been invented and designed to…
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Light Emitting Devices Cause Sleep Havoc
Pharmacists who specialise in providing Sleep Hygiene Advice now have another item to tick off to improve the sleep of their patients Use of a light-emitting electronic book (LE-eBook) in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact overall health, alertness and the circadian clock, which synchronizes the daily rhythm of sleep to external environmental time…
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Insulin nasal spray shows promise as treatment for adults with dementia and Alzheimer’s
Editor’s Note: That a synthetic form of intranasal insulin improves Alzheimer’s Disease, in turn may prove to be due to lowering excess glucose levels in the brain. High brain glucose is known to be inflammatory and inflammation is thought to be one of the mechanisms causing Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia.A man-made form…
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Lost memories might be able to be restored, suggests research into marine snail
New research indicates that lost memories can be restored, according to new research into a type of marine snail called Aplysia. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. For decades, most neuroscientists have believed that memories are stored at the synapses — the connections between brain cells, or…