Walgreens latest collaboration is with CHE Trinity Health. The collaborative model enables retail clinic collaborations, outpatient pharmacy services and expanded prescription and disease management programs that can help improve people’s health while increasing consumers’ access and lowering overall healthcare costs. Walgreens pharmacists and Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners will work with CHE Trinity Health providers to […]
Cardinal Health recently announced that a series of studies found that Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions’ Clinical Pathways program significantly reduces the cost of cancer treatment, improves clinical care and shows promise for guiding treatment of other high-cost, complex diseases. Several of the studies found that the ability of Cardinal’s Clinical Pathways to significantly reduce costs […]
Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, is working with Cardinal Health to provide new clinical support services to members focused on helping them improve patient outcomes and the financial performance of pharmacies. Members will benefit through: Drug cost savings through a guaranteed savings program Consultative services for medication safety, operations improvement and regulatory […]
Approximately 80% of Cleveland Clinic’s patients come from a six-county area, 19% come from the rest of the U.S. and about 1% from overseas. Cleveland Clinic’s strategies have included hospital transfers. It has about 20,000 hospital transfers on an annual basis. Patients visit for tertiary, quaternary care, and approximately 25% of its beds are intensive-care […]
Gentiva Health Services rejected a $533 million acquisition proposal from Kindred Healthcare, which is interested in acquiring Gentiva to expand its services to the aging population. A recently released US Census Bureau report stated that more than 20% of the American population will be at least 65 years old by 2050, increasing from 13% of […]
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a growing population health issue from a clinical effectiveness perspective and from an economic efficiency perspective, given our lifestyles and the aging US population. In their current review, Blanchette and colleagues highlight key outcome drivers to address when considering health plan design elements or coverage frameworks to improve and […]
Specialty distributors, specialty pharmacies, and health care providers are all competing for a dominant position in drug delivery and reimbursement. Increasingly, influence from nonsupply chain participants is shaping future considerations for specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers. Specialty pharmaceutical HUB programs are increasingly becoming “patient solution centers,” connecting patients with all the health care professionals who are involved […]
Kmart Pharmacy announced that it is working with Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy to provide specialty medications and support. Kmart, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation, said that it is working with Diplomat to give Kmart customers and Shop Your Way members access to specialty medications for a variety of conditions, including HIV, Crohn’s disease, anemia […]