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Nuvola: floating a new Health & Beauty store concept into Saudi skies
Fiona Sartoretto Verna AIAPP Architect, landscape architect and painter Fiona has lived for several years in the United States where she worked on the East Coast. Married with two small daughters she travels all around the globe researching innovative concepts in retail pharmacy. She graduated with honors in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture “La Sapienza”, University…
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Walking Group is a Step to Better Health
Joining a walking group may be just what the doctor orders, because research suggests it is one of the best ways to improve your overall health. The British Journal of Sports Medicine states that it’s easy to stick with this type of exercise program, which offers a wide range of health benefits and has virtually…
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Five Principles Combine to Make Great Logos
A great logo identifies you to the public quickly and memorably to distinguish your business from your competitors. A great logo will visually convey the qualities of business and make it stand out from the crowd. Colours, themes, and styles of your logo should help your customers gauge your price, what you offer and your…
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Future Pharmacy Starting From a Compound Base
Pharmaca is a US-based integrative pharmacy company that has developed a pharmacy model which could be adapted to an Australian “future pharmacy” model. Basically, it is a compounding pharmacy first, with outreach into evidence-based complementary medicine (hence they are integrative medicine specialists) plus a retail segment. By US standards it is a small to medium…
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15 Reasons to Date a Pharmacist
Trawling the Internet recently we came across the global dating site eHarmony promoting pharmacists as great life partners. Intrigued as to whether they were “fair-dinkum” we visited the site to see what they were saying and genuinely surprised when we realised that they were not being frivolous. As we discussed the implications of this material…
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Patient Engagement Involves a Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange occurs when a clinical pharmacist uses best evidence to inform a patient on which direction to take to create a good health care outcome. Knowledge exchange is about sharing knowledge freely to make a difference in health outcomes for patients. During the knowledge exchange the pharmacist uses mentoring processes to act firstly as…
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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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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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Pharmacy by Design – Reinventing the Dispensary
Recently, we published some work (Pharmacy by Design) carried out by some US design researchers that involved pharmacy design basic research. The company, which is called Nurture by Steelcase, conducted research over a number of differing pharmacy settings and came up with a number of principles that held true for a pharmacy in all those…