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Help Turn Occasional Shoppers into Loyal Customers by Investing in the Front End

Drug Topics

By tailoring your pharmacy to meet the needs of customers across both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) products, you can transform your store into a long-term community destination for total health and wellness. Private-label brands allow you to deliver the same quality as larger name brands, often at a lower cost.

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Pharmaceutical Compounding Calculations, Part Two–Bulk Drugs

PharmTech

Thakar Varanya Chaiyaperm View All News Article Bulk drug calculations for different types of active moieties and drugs require different calculations and labeling. Part two discussion describes a simple medication order and demonstrates calculations and labeling for each bulk drug type. Pluta Nishant B. Mole calculations.

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The Benefits of Custom Packaging for Your Medications

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

We know these challenges all too well as a community pharmacy in Kentucky at LIFEWELL RX PHARMACY so we have made sure to devise ways to help patients adhere to their medications. One of the main ways we do so is through our special packaging for medications in our independent pharmacy in Louisville, Kentucky.

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What is a dosette box? How to get one?

Druggist

Dosette box is composed of small sealable compartments, which hold tablets removed from blister packaging (original pack). When a community pharmacy team prepares a dosette box, it is almost always this type of dosette box which is supplied to patients. These need to be kept in its original packaging.

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How AI can help pharmacists

The Checkup by Singlecare

According to Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, AI can also be used to automate dispensing processes. Robotic dispensing systems help prepare prescriptions by packaging and labeling medications to improve efficiency. The bottom line AI technology has the potential to transform pharmacy practice.

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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.

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How to decode prescription labels for your patients

The Checkup by Singlecare

If you’ve worked in a community pharmacy, you’ve likely had the same frustrating conversations about prescription labels over and over. This little sticker is self-explanatory for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians but can confuse patients and caregivers. The expiration is usually one year from the fill date.