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Recent News Items
MIMS Leading AAN/INN Harmonisation In its next data release, MIMS Australia will be including, for the first time, INN (International Non-proprietary Names) as well as Australian Approved Names (AANs) as part of its push to support a recent Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) project. In 2015, the TGA announced a 4 year plan to harmonise AANs…
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Another Big Yellow Box Format
For some time the name “Big Yellow Box” has been the unofficial title given to a certain warehouse-type pharmacy group. Psychologically it has been determined that the colour yellow in association with retail environments creates a flow-on effect of “cheapness” or “low cost” in a consumer’s mind. Many major retailers include large slabs of the…
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Nissan Foresees Offices Powered by Electric Cars – We see Electric Cars Becoming Offices Occupied by Digital Nomads
Electric vehicles have potential to change the way we live beyond transportation. No longer a question of ‘if,’ but a matter of ‘when,’ electric vehicles are already changing the status quo of transportation. And they will have a niche within pharmacy. We’re at the beginning of one of the few times in human history where…
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Health Care Dissatisfaction
GE Healthcare Camden Group and Prophet on Wednesday published the results of a study that found about 81% of the people they surveyed are dissatisfied with their health care experience. While this is a US study i2P believes that a similar situation exists here in Australia. The study also found a gap between what providers…
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RFID Is a Basic Step Towards Specialist Goods & Services Success
Specialist Retailers like Rebecca Minkoff are benefiting more from service and supply chain agility. Australian specialist pharmacies lag well behind. Today, consumers are more informed, empowered and demanding. As the line between the physical and digital worlds blurs, retailers must differentiate themselves to drive customer loyalty. That means delighting customers and patients beyond expectation while getting…
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Trust – It Always Has to be Worked at
Pharmacy always appears in national polls measuring trust, and always in the first three, with results for pharmacists, nurses and doctors all highly ranked and all close together. Trust is an elusive concept to quantify and when evaluating, only a subjective opinion can be formed as a measurement. But in human beings it is something…
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Biometric Systems – Coming to a Place Near You
Devices for measuring personal biometrics have been evolving for some time now, with the promise of continuous monitoring of a patient or a well person undertaking a strenuous fitness program. On balance, the fitness industry is driving this type of monitoring to ensure safety and guidance for fitness trainers, but there is obviously room for…
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The Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Inc
i2P is interested in promoting primary health care through community pharmacy or pharmacist collaboration with GP’s. We recently came across this website The Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Inc which describes an organisation we had not heard of before. Given that the focus is on primary health care and is obviously designed to support and…
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The Formal Documents Required for a Functioning Pharmacy Business
Many pharmacy businesses (even some of the larger variety) often do not conduct important aspects of their business by having basic contracts/agreements in place for each activity. You do not have to be a legal expert, when often all that is required is an exchange of letters confirming details of your mutual discussion and your understanding…
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The Effects of Cannabis On Weight Loss, Exercise Performance and Insulin Resistance
This report is a collection of news items and research reports related to the effects of medical cannabis. Some of this information is anecdotal and has to be validated by formal clinical trials. But if only a fraction of the results claimed by personal users is correct, then we indeed have a very useful substance within…