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  • Driving revenue streams with pharmacy technology

    As the nation's healthcare system continues to evolve, community pharmacies are searching for new ways to attract patients and create new revenue opportunities. Because this has mostly meant expanding the services they offer, streamlining payment and reimbursement processes has taken on added importance.

  • Pharmacies leverage data to improve patient outcomes

    Employing sophisticated technology and a broad range of customer information is central to community pharmacies' ongoing efforts to play a greater role in managing patients' health, according to industry sources.

    "Besides capturing all of their prescription-related data, pharmacies should mine their patients’ point-of-sale data," Innovation VP of global business development Doyle Jensen told Drug Store News.

  • Q&A: ScriptPro’s Coughlin talks tech as vehicle for improved patient care

    Between ensuring their patients receive the proper medication, working to improve patient adherence to meet quality measures, offering enhanced clinical services and acting as an active member of their patients’ care team, pharmacists are spread thin. In order to spend more time providing quality interactions with patients, pharmacies are increasingly looking to technology as a way to ease their workload to provide better patient-facing care.
     

  • Emerging companies clock pace of innovation

    For a real-world look at the speed at which innovation occurs and what it means to truly have an innovation mindset, a panel of start-up companies — each at various stages of development and maturity — talked about the white spaces their organizations targeted and the solutions they created to fill those voids at a special Health Innovation Summit, hosted by CVS Health in partnership with Drug Store News and Mack Elevation in June.

    Following is a brief recap of the companies that participated in the June 13 discussion.

  • Video messages help drive mobile commerce

    Facebook senior client partner Aaron Calloway

    Video-based marketing messages designed for mobile viewing represent a significant opportunity for retailers, according to a speaker at the recent Health Innovation Summit, hosted by CVS Health in partnership with Drug Store News and Mack Elevation.

  • CVS Health eyes faster pace of health innovation

    Helena Foulkes, CVS Health EVP/CVS Pharmacy president

  • Online search fuels healthcare decisions

    Ryan Olohan, Google industry director for health care

    Internet search activity, particularly on mobile devices, has become an important element of consumer healthcare decision-making.

  • Leverage new opportunities or risk ‘death blow’

    Steve Laughlin, IBM VP/GM of global consumer distribution

    “The last best experience anyone has anywhere becomes their expectation everywhere,” and the retail experience is no exception. That was the message conveyed by Steve Laughlin, VP and general manager of global consumer industry at IBM, in his CVS Health Innovation Summit presentation.

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