It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the mid-1990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hypercompetition: IT. Thanks to powerful...
John A. Lederer, who helmed the largest grocery chain in Canada for seven years, will take over this week as Chairman and CEO for Duane Reade, the largest pharmacy chain in New York City. Who is John Lederer? He spent 30 years at Loblaw Cos. Ltd., which...
Chain pharmacy was dealt a blow last month in the form of a venomous and one-sided segment on the ABC television "news" magazine "20/20." The 20-minute report took the position that chain drug pharmacy is a dangerous and incompete Chain pharmacy was dealt a blow last...
BLOOMFIELD, Conn. -- CIGNA Pharmacy Management announced today that Sallie Sullivan has been named vice president of sales, with responsibility for driving pharmacy membership growth.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) has acquired two pharmacies from TabSafe Prescription Services, LLC, the pharmacy services division of TabSafe Medical Services, Inc., a privately-held company that manufactures and markets a state-of-the-art personal medication management system for seniors.
InforMedix Holdings Inc., of Rockville, which markets real-time patient information through telemedicine technologies that electronically link patients and health care professionals, said it signed a distribution agreement with American Pharmacies, a co-op of more than 500 independent pharmacies based in San Antonio, Texas. Under the agreement, American Pharmacies will...
Chris Brooker A Tasmanian pharmacy has successfully reinvented itself using the advice-based Chemmart store format. PROSPECT Vale Pharmacy in Launceston recently relaunched following its extensive refit and redesign, and owner and pharma Chris...
WASHINGTON, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Directly refuting allegations made over the last year in the Medicare prescription drug debate by some of the nation's largest retail pharmacies, a new, independent, and peer-reviewed analysis of 670 million prescripWASHINGTON, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Directly refuting allegations made over the last...
CIGNA Pharmacy Management's new Web-based price quote tool allows members to get a "real-time" price quote from any pharmacy in Cigna's network of more than 52,000 retail pharmacies nationwide as well as from the ... CIGNA Pharmacy Management's new Web-based price quote tool allows members...
Byline: MARA LAZDINS SPARTANBURG, S.C.-In an effort to help control its growing prescription drug benefit costs and to make filling prescriptions easier for employees, BMW Manufacturing Co. last week became the latest large employer to set up an o Byline: MARA LAZDINS ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In an unanimous ruling today, the Federal Trade Commission FTC has found that PBM mail- service pharmacies offer large employers, unions, and health insurers lower prescription drug prices than the retail pharmacy WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In an unanimous ruling today, the...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna (NYSE:AET) announced today that it has appointed Edmund J. Pezalla, M.D., MPH, national medical director for Aetna Pharmacy Management.
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. has reached an agreement with Supervalu to acquire its 18 Scott's Food & Pharmacy stores in northeast Indiana. CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. has reached an agreement with Supervalu to acquire its 18 Scott's Food & Pharmacy stores in northeast...
There has been long-standing congressional interest in whether the Department of Defense DOD could use the Department of Veterans Affairs VA Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy CMOP system as a cost-effective alternative to beneficiaries picking up outpatient refill prescriptions at DOD military treatment facilities MTF. This report estimates cost savings that...
New Locations Prescribed for Rogers, Fort Smith, But Wal-Mart Still Leads State With 90 PharmaciesNew Locations Prescribed for Rogers, Fort Smith, But Wal-Mart Still Leads State With 90 Pharmacies
A lack of trained pharmacists is preventing supermarket chains from making a major impact in the pharmacy market. The big four have increased their share of sales by nearly 50% since 2001--but still only have a 9.6% slice of the 12.8bn [pounds ste ...
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