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Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

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That’s more than double recent counts, mostly spurred by a surge in hacking and ransomware attacks on health care groups regulated by HIPAA. As many as 116 million people were hit by large health data breaches this year, according to records from the HHS Office for Civil Rights as of December 21. Read the rest…

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Top Clinical Services for Boosting Your Pharmacy’s Revenue

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Immunizations & Vaccinations Independent pharmacies are ideally positioned to provide convenient immunization services to their communities. By offering a range of vaccinations, such as influenza, pneumonia, shingles, and travel vaccines, pharmacies can attract new customers while supporting public health initiatives.

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Keeping clinical trial data safe – handling cybersecurity in a risky world

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The development of vaccines for COVID-19 has been a masterclass in effective collaboration and applied digitisation in healthcare. By mid-May 2021, seven different COVID vaccines were in use in at least one country, and close to 1.5 billion doses were administered to people worldwide.

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COVID-19, Flu, and RSV in 2023: What Pharmacists Should Know

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In this blog, we will explore what pharmacies should know about the recent surge in COVID-19, the co-occurrence of Flu and RSV, and the significance of vaccinations and testing in controlling these infections. Vaccinating For Respiratory Viruses in 2023 Vaccination remains the most potent tool in combating severe illness from these viruses.

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Important Considerations to Help You Pass the NCLEX-RN®

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Centers for Disease Control – The CDC has all the information you need about Standard and Isolation Precautions; important infectious disease; the site has the Pink Book , which contains all the information you will ever need about vaccines, including administration, storage, contraindications, etc.;

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