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Preventing Medical Errors with Proven Bar-Code Technology
Bar-code technologies, which have proven effective at points-of-sale in stores and during order-fulfillment in warehouses are preventing errors at points-of-care and during medication preparations in hospitals. A US television commercial for Berlitz language courses begins with a senior officer briefing a draftee on how to man the station before leaving him on his own. No…
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A Pharmacy Industry Model
Celesio is a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. It is a German company with headquarters based in Stuttgart. The proactive and preventive approach ensures that patients receive the products and support that they require for optimum care. With some 39,000 employees, Celesio…
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Not Just Foot Traffic But An Audience that Likes to Shop
It seems that the Westfield Shopping Centre Management is prepared to take a risk by merging Internet retailers with their physical tenants. The risk being that already pressured retailers will feel they are being leveraged and sacrificed to Internet retailers without a corresponding benefit. Others will say that the process simply legitimises what is already…
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One Precursor Strategy For Building a New Paradigm Pharmacy
Information Technology can be very disruptive and the retailing industry is testament to that with the introduction of e-commerce. To keep up with strategies that may give a retail advantage, Westfield Corporation, well-known to many Australian pharmacy owners, has established Westfield Labs as an entity of Westfield Corporation serving as a global digital lab focused…
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New Pharmacy Paradigm – Drone Delivery
Editor’s Note: In keeping with our “over-the-horizon” view of pharmacy we allow staff writers to exercise their imagination and publish “what if?” material. Drone technology could become an integral component of a pharmacy-in-the home project, and because of its widespread uptake, it will be at a reasonable cost. We will check back in over time.…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Cannabis Debate 2.Prescription Real Time Monitoring
November 11, 201 Cannabis debate, Code of Ethics feature in latest edition of Australian Pharmacist The role of pharmacists in the medical cannabis debate is coming under scrutiny, with growing public support for medical cannabis underscored by a recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Survey showing 69 per cent of people supported legislation…
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Knowledge Products and Innovation Should be Organised and Rewarded
Australia should be supporting young health professionals (including pharmacists) who have skills in innovation and entrepreneurship that would improve our health systems, create disruptive businesses models that would prevent organisations such as Colesworth from contemplating a takeover and also to drive Australia’s economy in its transition from a resource-based economy to a service-based economy. Australia…
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I’ve been thinking about presidents, engineers, nurses, and the law of unintended consequences
The bulk of the word consequence is sequence. In sequence, outcomes (intended or not) follow actions. Typically, consequences is used in reference to negative outcomes. In 1974, Richard Nixon had neither intended nor anticipated the devastating sequence of events that would follow the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. He had not expected his actions would…