Superior customer service leads to a superior patient experience in your pharmacy. What kind of experience are you and your employees giving your patients? It’s easy to let a few…
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How to Create Pharmacy-Life Balance
As an independent community pharmacist, you hold multiple roles including owner or manager, pharmacist, friend and more. All of these demands mean that your work responsibilities likely spill over into…
Top 5 Tips for Giving Good Instructions to Patients
One of the most important parts of your job as an independent community pharmacist is to help your patients take their medications safely and correctly. And the instructions you give…
5 Reasons to Improve the Patient Experience (and How!)
Today, it’s not just about customer service; it’s about the customer experience. In your pharmacy, the quality of your patients’ experience can make or break your business. The patient experience…
7 Steps for Better Time Management
Your most valuable resource is simple, yet limited—time. Are you using it as well as you could be? As an independent community pharmacist, you have many demands on your time,…
Staying on Track: Ensuring That Your Pharmacy Stays Compliant
Do you have a compliance system in place in your pharmacy? If not, you’re potentially at risk for huge audit fines or even, in extreme situations, civil and criminal fines.…
5 Causes and Cures for Poor Patient Adherence
When patients aren’t adherent to their medications, it threatens their health and adds costs to the health care system. It’s not surprising that non-adherence is a big issue today, considering…
How to Make the Most of Medicare Part D Consultations
We’re halfway through this year’s open enrollment period for Medicare Part D plans, and many seniors still need your help! According to an analysis by Express Scripts, 84 percent of…
Why (and How to) Strengthen Your Pharmacy Passwords
Eighty percent of breaches in confidential customer data can be traced back to compromised passwords, according to a 2012 report from Verizon. As identity theft grows more prevalent, businesses like…
3 Overlooked Ways to Be More Productive
All business owners want their businesses to be more productive. As the owner of an independent community pharmacy, being more productive can help you make a profit, grow your business,…
Redesigning Workflow: A New Pharmacy Workflow System
For 10 years, Don Grove, R.Ph., owner of J&D Pharmacy in Warsaw, Mo., has worked to improve the traditional pharmacy workflow. After three stages of major changes, he has now…
9 Things You Should Never Say to Your Patients
Superior customer service leads to a superior patient experience in your pharmacy. What kind of experience are you and your employees giving your patients? It’s easy to let a few…
How to Create Pharmacy-Life Balance
As an independent community pharmacist, you hold multiple roles including owner or manager, pharmacist, friend and more. All of these demands mean that your work responsibilities likely spill over into…
Top 5 Tips for Giving Good Instructions to Patients
One of the most important parts of your job as an independent community pharmacist is to help your patients take their medications safely and correctly. And the instructions you give…
5 Reasons to Improve the Patient Experience (and How!)
Today, it’s not just about customer service; it’s about the customer experience. In your pharmacy, the quality of your patients’ experience can make or break your business. The patient experience…
7 Steps for Better Time Management
Your most valuable resource is simple, yet limited—time. Are you using it as well as you could be? As an independent community pharmacist, you have many demands on your time,…
Staying on Track: Ensuring That Your Pharmacy Stays Compliant
Do you have a compliance system in place in your pharmacy? If not, you’re potentially at risk for huge audit fines or even, in extreme situations, civil and criminal fines.…
5 Causes and Cures for Poor Patient Adherence
When patients aren’t adherent to their medications, it threatens their health and adds costs to the health care system. It’s not surprising that non-adherence is a big issue today, considering…
How to Make the Most of Medicare Part D Consultations
We’re halfway through this year’s open enrollment period for Medicare Part D plans, and many seniors still need your help! According to an analysis by Express Scripts, 84 percent of…
Why (and How to) Strengthen Your Pharmacy Passwords
Eighty percent of breaches in confidential customer data can be traced back to compromised passwords, according to a 2012 report from Verizon. As identity theft grows more prevalent, businesses like…
3 Overlooked Ways to Be More Productive
All business owners want their businesses to be more productive. As the owner of an independent community pharmacy, being more productive can help you make a profit, grow your business,…
Redesigning Workflow: A New Pharmacy Workflow System
For 10 years, Don Grove, R.Ph., owner of J&D Pharmacy in Warsaw, Mo., has worked to improve the traditional pharmacy workflow. After three stages of major changes, he has now…