By now, most of your patients can immediately recognize a QR, or Quick Response, code. “How I used to describe it to my mother was a pretty little black and…
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Profitable Expansion with Remote Delivery Kiosks
As a federally qualified health center serving patients from 10 clinics over a 25-mile radius of southern Illinois, Shawnee Health Center Pharmacy needed a way to get prescriptions to patients…
Ask These Questions Before Taking on a Business Partner
Being the sole owner of an independent pharmacy is a lot of pressure. All the financial, management, and operations decisions come back to you. Working with a business partner is…
What Is Patient Education Worth?
Healthcare is confusing, especially for patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital or diagnosed with a chronic disease. Because pharmacists are the healthcare professionals that patients see most…
Pharmacist-Prescribed Contraception: Your Questions Answered
There are 73 million women of reproductive age in the United States, and 14 percent of them use oral birth control pills. Hormonal contraception is so commonplace that many states…
12 Communication Mistakes Sabotaging Your Credibility
Your communication style sets the tone for your pharmacy as a workplace. You can have an airtight workflow setup and thorough standard operating procedures, but if you have poor personal…
What Is a Group Purchasing Organization?
A pharmacy group purchasing organization bundles together multiple independent pharmacies to give them more buying power and leverage than they’d each have as a single entity.
How Well Do You Know Your Prime Vendor Agreement?
Most prime vendor agreements are 30 pages or more, and they are stuffed with jargon and complicated incentive structures that make the average independent pharmacist’s eyes glaze over.
10 Cash Services Patients Will Pay For
Avoid PBMs entirely with these 10 services that patients will pay for out-of-pocket.
How to Manage Employee Disagreements in the Workplace
In a small, tight-knit workplace like an independent pharmacy, one disagreement between colleagues can have an outsized effect. Occasional disagreements are to be expected in a high-stress environment, but letting…
Should You Buy a Pharmacy or Start From Scratch?
If you want to become an independent pharmacy owner, it’s not as simple as hanging out a shingle and opening up shop. The first major decision you’ll have to make…
Modern Marketing with QR Codes
By now, most of your patients can immediately recognize a QR, or Quick Response, code. “How I used to describe it to my mother was a pretty little black and…
Profitable Expansion with Remote Delivery Kiosks
As a federally qualified health center serving patients from 10 clinics over a 25-mile radius of southern Illinois, Shawnee Health Center Pharmacy needed a way to get prescriptions to patients…
Ask These Questions Before Taking on a Business Partner
Being the sole owner of an independent pharmacy is a lot of pressure. All the financial, management, and operations decisions come back to you. Working with a business partner is…
What Is Patient Education Worth?
Healthcare is confusing, especially for patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital or diagnosed with a chronic disease. Because pharmacists are the healthcare professionals that patients see most…
Pharmacist-Prescribed Contraception: Your Questions Answered
There are 73 million women of reproductive age in the United States, and 14 percent of them use oral birth control pills. Hormonal contraception is so commonplace that many states…
12 Communication Mistakes Sabotaging Your Credibility
Your communication style sets the tone for your pharmacy as a workplace. You can have an airtight workflow setup and thorough standard operating procedures, but if you have poor personal…
What Is a Group Purchasing Organization?
A pharmacy group purchasing organization bundles together multiple independent pharmacies to give them more buying power and leverage than they’d each have as a single entity.
How Well Do You Know Your Prime Vendor Agreement?
Most prime vendor agreements are 30 pages or more, and they are stuffed with jargon and complicated incentive structures that make the average independent pharmacist’s eyes glaze over.
10 Cash Services Patients Will Pay For
Avoid PBMs entirely with these 10 services that patients will pay for out-of-pocket.
How to Manage Employee Disagreements in the Workplace
In a small, tight-knit workplace like an independent pharmacy, one disagreement between colleagues can have an outsized effect. Occasional disagreements are to be expected in a high-stress environment, but letting…
Should You Buy a Pharmacy or Start From Scratch?
If you want to become an independent pharmacy owner, it’s not as simple as hanging out a shingle and opening up shop. The first major decision you’ll have to make…