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Opinion: STAT+: The travel industry offers hospitals a warning about MyChart

STAT

By offering travelers the ability to compare prices and book accommodations from thousands of options, OTAs brought convenience, transparency, and lower costs. Today, over half of hotel bookings flow through OTAs, leaving hotels with slimmer margins and less control over their customer relationships.

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How the NHS 10-year plan will affect pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

This will reduce pressure and demand on hospitals and allow secondary care teams to focus on specialist care supported by technology to improve productivity. This will move ‘the majority of outpatient care’ outside of hospitals and into the community by 2035, the Government said.

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Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

Cass Lake Indian Health Service The Cass Lake Indian Health Service (IHS) Hospital is a Federal Public Health Service facility operating as a Critical Access Hospital and Outpatient Ambulatory Care Clinic. The pharmacists are fully credentialed and privileged as Hospital Medical Staff members. BCPS, CAHIMS, 340B ACE. .

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Downtown Minneapolis

Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

Site description Expand all + Organization Hennepin Healthcare is an integrated system of care that includes a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center , an acute care hospital, as well as a clinic system with primary care clinics located in Minneapolis and across Hennepin County.

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Pharmacists Bridge the Gaps in Care Transitions

Pharmacy Times

Transitions of care, or the movement of patients between health care settings or providers, impose a significant cost on the health care system due to frequent adverse events and hospital readmissions. Hospitals utilize pharmacists and technicians to conduct this research and reconcile patients’ medications.

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Understanding Recent Changes to 505(b)(2) Drugs and Reimbursement

Pharmacy Times

The Orange Book is the reference, and it allows the FDA to declare something [to be] therapeutically equivalent. The hospitals and the payment plans would not use your generic drug if you weren’t therapeutically equivalent—we would exclude you,” Soefje said. That has changed based upon the [recent] CMS ruling.”

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Unicorns Don’t Exist: Rethinking the Generalist Model in Oncology Pharmacy

Pharmacy Times

But together, they contribute to the ever-expanding expectation that oncology pharmacists should “know all the things,” an emotion aptly captured by Allie Brosh in her book Hyperbole and a Half. Touchstone Books; 2013. Time Enough for Love. Putnam’s Sons; 1973. Rao KV, Gulbis AM, Mahmoudjafari Z.