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MinuteClinic hits 25 million patient visit milestone
CVS Health’s MinuteClinic has surpassed 25 million patient visits since opening the nation’s first retail clinic in 2000, the company announced on Tuesday. This is the future of Australian pharmacy as well, if pharmacy leaders can get their act into gear. But why wait for that to happen? Surely progressive Australian pharmacy owners can venture…
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Replacing the PBS market for a sustainable Income – home health technology, self care and primary health care
PBS is almost a lost cause. The amount of time that is invested in this product compared to the return on invested capital, is now not viable. This will not improve as health minister, Sussan Ley, has stated she is “not interested in pharmacists’ pay packets, only lower costs for consumers”. A directional change is…
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Communications Device and System for Clinical Pharmacists
When you are involved in clinical work in pharmacy, it is necessary to have a portable platform. This would be represented by an iPad or any Android notepad, even a smartphone. If you wanted something that could easily slip into a coat pocket, then the iPad mini is designed just for you, or you could…
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The Global Trend in Working Environments: Co-working & Retail Clinics
I2P has been researching the concept of a “freelance” clinical pharmacist for some years now. As we are normally about 5-10 years projected in our “over-the-horizon” thinking, it is not surprising that the trend has not yet become fully obvious within the pharmacy profession. Pharmacy culture is only just transitioning from a dispensary presentation to…
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®Easy chain – Sartoretto Verna rethinks pharmacy design
Editor’s Note: Australian community pharmacy design is altering to include more compound dispensing, a variety of clinical spaces and less general retailing. Interview rooms will take away wall space and the display shelving, so new innovations are required. Sartoretto Verna has harnessed this trend in a presentation they call the Easy chain display system that…
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Why the Business World Feels so Different
The major global management consultancies have, until very recently, been operating in uncharted territory and feeling very uncomfortable, because they were unable to give clients a sense of direction. This was a direct result of having lost their own sense of direction. With the passage of time and the collection of sufficient data, there is…
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Evidence Based Design Will Encourage Patient Outcomes
A pharmacy environment is a complex one of patients, customers, products and services. It is a little understood environment because evidence surrounding its structure and presentation is sparse. All the elements require integration. It’s one thing to spruce up a space aesthetically, but it’s equally important to address the underlying conditions to support the experience…
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Making Universal Blood Through Enzymes
Universal blood is an appealing notion because it could be transfused into anyone regardless of blood type. Researchers have been kicking around the idea of using enzymes to create universal blood since the early 1980s, “but a major limitation has always been the efficiency of the enzymes,” says Stephen Withers at the University of British Columbia.…
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Ice Pack for Injections Courtesy 3D Printing
Rice University undergraduates have developed a quick and easy way to numb the skin, making shots virtually pain-free. And it could be a value enhancement that might differentiate pharmacy vaccination clinics from those provided by all other health professionals. Getting the flu shot is one of the many rituals that comes once a year, inoculating…
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A Clinical Look at Pharmacy
As pharmacies move towards establishing vaccination clinics, pharmacy is experiencing major resistance from medical groups. This was predicted by i2P and in fact we commented that clinical pharmacists would come under scrutiny from a range of sectors that includes doctors, nurses, patients and government agencies, and that scrutiny would be harsher than what they would…