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Own Your Own Work to Build Patient Trust
We now live in a world of science that most of us did not know or even understand when we finished our studies within pharmacy schools at various universities around Australia. Unfortunately that science is now tinged by corruption of evidence by Big Pharma and skewed to an extreme by medical skeptics seemingly supporting orthodox…
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Price Waterhouse Cooper Sees 2015 as Good for Pharmacy
Editor’s Note: There are not too many upbeat positives for pharmacy these days anywhere in our global village community. But it’s happening and the trend is following here in Australia with momentum building. It’s the cost that is the main driver, and while US costs far exceed Australian costs, it’s now reaching a level where…
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Doctor’s “Party Line” Analysed By Mainstream Media At Last!
Editor’s Note: For as many years as I can remember, doctors have been pressing government to fund education for an increasing number of doctors and for doctors to control just about every aspect of primary health care, particularly in leadership roles. Suddenly the mainstream media is beginning to question the party line, along with government.…
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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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Stand out at work
There’s an old joke about farmers: They are “outstanding” in their fields. Or is it “out, standing” in their fields? If you want to be outstanding in your field, you probably don’t have acres of land to make the anecdote amusing. But there is nothing funny about being a standout at work. In fact,…
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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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Marketing Focus – Extreme Discounts? – Not Necessarily
A CHALLENGING CHALLENGE For most existing businesses, the key to enhanced performance lies in the following statement: Challenge decisions, rather than make challenging decisions. Too often poor and sub-optimal decisions are recognised as such by those within entities – but are never challenged. They are simply tolerated and the consequences are borne… with a…
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Clawing your way to the bottom
Seth Godin’s blogs are a refreshing way to stay grounded. He reminds us that to trade in your standards in order to gain short-term attention or profit isn’t as easy as it sounds. “Once-great media brands that now traffic in cheesecake and quick clicks don’t get there by mistake. Respected brands that rush to deliver…
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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.…