Health System Pharmacies Adopt Next-Generation Tech
It's time for pharmacies to move into the future: Industry 4.0.
What Makes a Successful Antibiotic Stewardship Program?
By understanding factors associated with successful ASPs, we can determine how best to support hospitals in developing good stewardship practices.
Are We Being Played for Suckers?
Why are Americans shouldering the burden of paying for drug innovations?
AST: The Linchpin of Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) for newer antibiotics is falling behind because there is a lag time between FDA approval and inclusion in commercial AST devices.
The Underappreciated Risks of Hospital IV Compounding
Technology can help reduce error rates in IV compounding.
Bread Baking and Health Care
Maybe the health-care industry could learn something from Pete Kreckel's mother.
Casting Doubt: Are Compound Interventions Effective?
How can we better engage patients for greater adherence rates?
The Future Isn’t So Futuristic
A pharmacist looks back at what he was told in pharmacy school.
Staffing Makes the Difference
It isn't the number of prescriptions that makes a good day in the pharmacy, it is the staffing.
How the NECC Case Changed Compounding Pharmacy
Because of the NECC Case, the nation has a much more consistent approach toward regulating and overseeing compounding pharmacies.
Pharmacy Education: Foundation for Providing Health
AACP offers a rebuttal to a Drug Topics opinion article.
Technology: It is Here to Stay
Pete Kreckel has a love hate relationship with technology.
What Do Checklists Say About Our Profession?
Following checklists may not be what you think of when you think of the job of someone in a profession.
Why This PBM Comparison Is a Bit of a Whopper
Are pharmacies really comparable to fast-food outlets?
View from the Zoo
Value-Driven Health-Care System: Value for Whom?
In My View
Are pharmacy schools teaching about health?
Reader Response
DIRs: PBMs Pay Less Each Year While Prices Go Up
PBMs have a business model where they pay less even while prices go up.
Dispensed as written: Fingerprints
Networking: The ability to make yourself uncomfortable
For true networking to occur one has to give of oneself, and maybe not so ready to be on the take.
We Missed the Bus the First Time Around
I missed that Dietary Supplement Bus in 1994-- and so did the pharmacy profession.
Keys to Minimizing Prescription Drug Errors
There are at least three major areas of concern
Appearance matters: A legible label is the least we can do
Whether you like it or not, your patients are paying attention, and judging all of us.
Do Clothes Make the Pharmacist?
People are looking--and judging.
When someone else pays, Rx costs soar
Why are Rx drugs so expensive? No one seems to have a good answer.
The red pen rules: How to prevent pharmacy error
Anxious new pharmacists get a shot in the arm from columnist Pete Kreckel, RPh.
Drug take-back: A call for a permanent solution
A coordinated effort needs to be made to preserve the health and safety of life on earth.
How to find satisfaction and reward in your pharmacy career
There are so many opportunities for pharmacists out there. Technology can help uncover them, and we can follow them to a fulfilling career.
Medicare drug costs should parallel those of Medicaid
Medicare should have the same authority that Medicaid has to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers. If the government can do it for one program, it can do it for another.
Quit stigmatizing naloxone
Epinephrine saves lives. So does naloxone. Why are they regarded differently?