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How to have a successful McKesson ideaShare: Attend, network and take action
For more than 30 years, McKesson ideaShare has focused on giving independent pharmacists and owners the knowledge, tools and resources they need to improve their pharmacy’s performance. This year’s conference comes with a warning label:

“Warning: Attendance may cause extreme success. Common side effects include: greater knowledge, improved performance and higher revenue.”
myHealthMart goes mobile
Many features of the myHealthMart online portal that have been helping Health Mart pharmacists and owners better manage their pharmacy business over the past year have been incorporated into a new mobile app that will be launched at the 2017 McKesson ideaShare meeting. The mobile app will be available for the Apple iOS platform at the conference; an Android app will launch later this fall.

2017 Pharmacy of the Year grows patient service, business at same time
Marsh Supermarkets to close all of its pharmacies

INDIANAPOLIS — Marsh Supermarkets will close all 37 of its Indiana in-store pharmacies during a three-day period beginning May 3, according to several media reports. All prescription information and inventory will be transferred to CVS Pharmacy.

Terms of the Marsh-CVS transaction were not disclosed.
Good Neighbor Pharmacy pharmacists discuss the patient-centered approach

Drug Store News this summer spoke to three Good Neighbor Pharmacy owners as part of its coverage of AmerisourceBergen ThoughtSpot 2016. In these exclusive interviews, independent pharmacists shared changes implemented in their pharmacy to expand patient care and increase front-end profitability, the importance of customer service and the role of the independent pharmacist in the community.
Four by four: Four takeaways from four ThoughtSpot executives

At this year’s Good Neighbor Pharmacy’s ThoughtSpot conference, there were a lot of takeaways from the show that pharmacists can implement immediately upon returning to work. There was a new Innovation and Technology Showcase on the show floor this year. AmerisourceBergen announced its plan to launch a state-of-the-art ordering system called ABC Order, which will be available to customers in 2017.
Driving patient care through access, market power

As critical as it is to celebrate the independent spirit that drives community pharmacists to excel in patient care, it is as critical to empower those independents by ensuring patient access. AmerisourceBergen is empowering its independent partners in three critical ways: by ensuring patient access through its direct relationships with manufacturers, by commanding better terms through greater economies of scale and by heralding the market power independent pharmacy can wield in reaching underserved patient populations with specialty medicines.
Business Coaching program works to enable patient care

Above: Paul Satterfield, Business Coach – Retail for AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp., led two continuing education sessions at Good Neighbor Pharmacy ThoughtSpot 2016: “A Brave New World – of Profit: Turning your Front End from a Convenience Center into a Profit Center,” which he taught alongside fellow Business Coach Danny Nelson, and “Embrace Your Full Potential as a Pharmacy Staff Member: YOU are the Cornerstone of the Patient Experience!”
For Pharmacy of the Year winner, ‘care is a family tradition’

When John Bellitti — owner of HB Pharmacy in North Arlington, N.J.
DSN interviews AmerisourceBergen, Good Neighbor Pharmacy leaders  for special installment of Executive Viewpoint video series

In late July, Drug Store News traveled to Las Vegas to cover AmerisourceBergen ThoughtSpot 2016 for a series of special reports.