2509, 2023

Maximizing Prescription Revenue

Capturing Discharge Prescriptions – WAR Hospital systems are forfeiting significant revenue during a critical period that demands financial strength and strategic defenses against rising retail competition. The underlying causes remain uncertain, though Illustration 1 outlines some potential factors contributing to the underperformance of hospital outpatient pharmacies. It is possible that key decision-makers, including hospital CEOs, CFOs, and Board Members, are operating on flawed information. One of the leading reasons outpatient

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3101, 2023

What to Expect in Transforming the Pharmacy

Download PDF The transformation path is vastly different than that often associated with traditional consulting. Whereas the latter focuses on ‘fixing’ something that should work, the former ‘changes’ something that does not. The big healthcare consulting firms focus on ‘fixing’. Therefore, expect to drive your own transformation. As drug chain stores continue to expand their presence in the healthcare industry, hospital management must recognize a strategic imperative to expand their

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2812, 2022

Does the Future Retail State Include Pharmacists?

Download PDF The future state for retail pharmacy does not include pharmacists unless retailers can find someone willing to subsidize them. The fact is the number of days for retail pharmacists as we know them may be growing shorter. Retail pharmacist management have long denied front-line pharmacists healthcare value by harvesting Rph-Patient time for profit. Now they are at a crossroad. Overview There would be no need to ‘free up’

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