Thought Leadership: Healthcare

‘Retail Inspired’ Strategies can Help to Save Pharmacy

Things have been tough for pharmacies over the last couple of years. Increasing DIR fees, shrinking margins and general marketplace disruption are making it increasingly difficult for these businesses to survive, let alone grow.

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Inmar Recognized Alongside Bayer Consumer Health and GlaxoSmithKline

  Sometimes it's okay to be judged by the company you keep and sometimes there's victory in simply competing.

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It's Time for Nonstop Consumer Drug Take-back

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that close to 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. That's up more than 10% from last year. In the face of these daunting statistics, it can be difficult to think of what can be done immediately to meaningfully address this public health emergency. Regardless, more must be done. Now.

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Amazon and Pillpack Remind Me Why I Celebrate Independence Day

The combination of the Pillpack acquisition, and the recent announcement that Dr. Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal, as the leader of Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett's medical venture could be a significant catalyst for change in the trillion-dollar healthcare industry. The question is, will your company also be a catalyst? Or will you be left behind hanging onto a model that isn't delivering results?

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The Future Of Healthy Communities Starts With Accessible Technology

So many of our resources — community, nonprofit or government safety nets — are delivered without taking advantage of technology to embed education in the essence of those services. There is an opportunity to not only meet basic needs but to actually address root causes through education that facilitates resolution.

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Helping People Reduce the Cost of Prescription Drugs

Inmar has introduced a discount program for prescription medications, with 175+ medications being available at no cost and others at a significant discount.

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Mitigating "Medicine Cabinet Misuse" Through Prescription Drug Take-Back

For too many victims of prescription opioid abuse, the problem starts in the family medicine cabinet. Medications properly prescribed and used as directed but afterwards stored -- unneeded and unmonitored at home -- represent a major source of the misused and abused drugs fueling the prescription drug abuse crisis that is killing tens of thousands in the U.S. every year.

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Don't Just Say It's a Shame — How You and I Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis

You may be an unwitting player in the American opioid addiction crisis. You may be confident that you're not, but consider this unfortunately common scenario:

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Moving Intelligence and Service Options into the Back of your Pharmacy

The operational environment for pharmacies is ever-changing. Any one of the recent industry changes by itself comes with its own set of implications and challenges: The Affordable Care Act and the move to value-based reimbursement; CMS' proposed rule; 340B Drug Program; DIR fees; industry consolidation; EPA Proposed Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals. The list goes on.

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