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KY Health System Strikes Analytics Collab to Enhance Specialty Pharmacy Services

August 10, 2022 - University of Louisville Health (UofL Health) has entered into a collaboration with population health analytics company Loopback Analytics that aims to use advanced data insights to enhance the health system’s specialty pharmacy efforts and improve patient-centered care. Under the partnership, UofL Health will implement Loopback’s data...

Predictive Analytics Model Identifies Illicit Online Pharmacies

August 31, 2020 by Jessica Kent

A predictive analytics model could spot illicit online pharmacies, enhancing drug safety and patient health, a study published in JMIR revealed. Online pharmacies have grown in popularity in recent...

Pharmacist-Led Antibiotic Stewardship Approach Cuts Overprescribing

September 03, 2019 by Jessica Kent

Having staff pharmacists perform post-prescription audits reduced antibiotic use among patients, suggesting that these professionals can help lead antibiotic stewardship interventions, according to a...

Pharmacists Play Key Role in Opioid Management

July 09, 2019 by Emily Sokol, MPH

A national survey of pharmacy directors revealed that pharmacists play an active role in stewardship programs to prevent the misuse of opioids. Stewardship programs are coordinated programs that...

Real-Time Data Plays Key Role in Population Health for PBMs

February 14, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Real-time data access is a core component of industry efforts to improve price transparency, ensure medication adherence, and support ongoing efforts to improve population health. At an educational...

Providence St. Joseph Spins Off Population Health Company

February 06, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH), the third-largest non-profit health system in the country, has announced the launch of a new population health company called Ayin Health Solutions. The new...

Microsoft, Walgreens to Leverage AI for Retail-Style Healthcare

January 15, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) are collaborating to apply artificial intelligence to the challenges of developing retail-style healthcare interactions. The two companies will work...

How CVS Specialty Pharmacy Manages Patients with Digital Engagement

July 23, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Complex diseases, both chronic and acute, often require significant investments in time and money from the four P’s of healthcare – patients, providers, payers, and pharmacists – to...

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