Nonadherence to diabetes medications costly
This is follow-up commentary to an article I Tweeted about earlier this week. JCP: “[Express Scripts] found that patients who were adherent to oral diabetes drugs had 235 fewer emergency department visits and 50 fewer inpatient hospitalizations per 1000 patients, resulting in an average of $500 saved per patients and a total decrease of $210 […]
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Has adoption of IV Workflow Management Systems in hospital pharmacies slowed?
Pharmacy Purchasing & Products (PP&P) puts out a survey each year called The State of Pharmacy Automation (SOPA). The 2017 PP&P SOPA is out and available for your reading pleasure. The PP&P SOPA survey covers many automation, technology, and practice trends. One item that I look at each year with great interest is the reported […]
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Saturday morning coffee [September 2 2017]
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” — Matthew 7:3 (NIV) So much happens each and every week, and it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Here are some of the tabs that are open in my browser this […]
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Ownership of healthcare data
A couple of weeks ago my brother wrote a piece about access and ownership of medical records. My brother isn’t a healthcare professional but he is an intelligent, tech-savvy individual that has been forced to navigate the healthcare system due to his own plight as well as time spent helping with my mother’s care prior […]
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Cool Technology in Pharmacy – Evolve Refrigeration
The Evolve line of compressor-free, medical grade refrigerators* are quite impressive. Powered by SilverCore™ Technology, they have no compressor. And because they have no compressor, they have no mechanical parts, run quiet, use less electricity, and generate less heat. The system “absorbs heat energy from the storage cabinet using a non-toxic, non-hazardous refrigerant embedded in the walls. […]
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Quick thoughts on Swisslog acquisition of Talyst
I’m a little slow getting to my thoughts on this deal. A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Talyst had been acquired by Swisslog Healthcare. I’ve known about this acquisition for a while so I wasn’t surprised when it finally went through. Since the announcement, I’ve reached out to some friends and colleagues […]
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Books in medicine, out of date and out of touch
Nature Microbiology: “… I know it is a big deal in some fields to publish books and careers get decided by books. But for those of us working in medicine or public health, are books and book chapters worth the effort? Is the juice worth the squeeze?? … Based on my experience of contributing over […]
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Ramping back up…
Hello, old friend, it’s been a while. I have neglected this weblog. The reasons are not important. I continue to write, explore ideas, and think about technology. However, for the past several months I’ve been using a more traditional method to record my thoughts, i.e. pen and paper. There’s something cathartic about writing in a […]
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Calling all students and professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit!
Here’s something special happening in the local Fresno area…. Calling all students and professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit! We’d like to invite you to join our new FREE HealthTech Initiative course. Find out more about this exciting class that will help develop healthcare products and services here: CHSU.ORG/HEALTHTECH-INITIATIVE We are looking for individuals to join […]
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