Turning up the heat on PBM’s role in drug pricing
Will employer benefit plans lose their enthusiasm for PBMs?
Patient access strategy: specialty pharmacy, hub—or both?
Do you need to hire a hub service for your Patient Access Strategy or can you get by with a good specialty pharmacy
AmerisourceBergen quarterly results: what industry downturn?
Revenues and earnings were up for the year; stock jumps 8.8% in the day
Aggregate-spend reporting: two in three companies gaining business insights
Compliance with the Physicians’ Sunshine Act has moved quickly into obtaining business value
Regulators press forward to fight drug counterfeiting and illicit dispensing
NABP tracks rogue online pharmacies; WHO codifies international testing standards for SSFFCs
Winter is coming sooner for Big Three wholesalers
McKesson disappoints on Q2 earnings call; stock drops 23%. Update: Cardinal reports more revenue, less profit
Partnership offers ‘single view from factory to patient’ for specialty pharma
IntegriChain and ProMetrics combine resources for channel management
IT firm enters DSCSA field from the hospital pharmacy direction
Leading GPO, Premier Inc., approves RXTransparent for its hospital members
GPhA: generics saved $227 billion in drug costs in 2015
Price growth is less than branded growth, but higher than inflation
Veeva shakes up clinical, quality management IT landscape
Steady uptake in clients highlights the company’s Vault cloud-computing platform
Commemorating a vaccine success in rotavirus
Tenth-year anniversary marks a milestone in saving lives globally
Drone delivery of medical products takes flight in Rwanda
UPS, GAVI and Zipline collaborate on a national delivery system
Pharma pricing and antitrust law
US courts fail to clarify when pricing may violate antitrust laws
New solid phase-change material, new passive packaging win industry awards
Cold Chain Tech’s Koolit PCM and Sonoco ThermoSafe Certis packaging platform
Havas Health links up with a government contractor for predictive analytics
Identifying undiagnosed rare-disease patients is a near-term goal
The fentanyl-opioid crisis is a counterfeiting crisis
More evidence that drug abusers are at risk from counterfeiters
More trouble for Mylan over EpiPen pricing and rebates [updated]
Company may have erroneously been operating under a generic classification
Reusable Packaging Assn. awards Cardinal Health its 2106 Excellence award
Packaging materials from Sonoco ThermoSafe enabled the sustainability program
Quintiles / IMS Health merger is complete
New company is to be known as QuintilesIMS
Retail clinics are on a 26%/year growth trajectory, says Kalorama
Drug dispensing, point of care testing and diagnostics are beneficiaries
Avella Specialty Pharmacy tops list of fast-growing private pharmacies
Drug Channel’s analysis of Inc. 5000 shows some eye-popping growth
New products take the stage at IQPC Cold Chain Forum
Is your shipper bear-proof?
Deloitte unveils ExaLink, a cloud-based commercial-compliance portal
CIS by Deloitte seeks to provide a comprehensive service for revenue management
Much heat, little new light in Mylan’s Congressional hearing over EpiPen pricing
Mylan CEO sticks to authorized-generic strategy for price relief
TraceLink touts 100+ customers for global traceability mandates
Sharpens aim at competitor SAP, while enhancing technical specs
Global pharma market will reach $1.12 trillion in 2022
Roche could overtake Novartis as the No. 1 global firm by then, says Evaluate Pharma
Sonoco ThermoSafe enters active temperature-controlled container market
Acquires PharmaPort assets from AAR
Drug pricing brawl turns to PBMs
Pharmacy benefit managers feel some marketplace heat even as they establish new benefit programs
Marken deepens its clinical trial logistics presence in India
Partnership with Jeena & Co., a leading provider
Veeva touts its Events Management solution’s acceptance by Big Pharma
In first year, the product has six of Top 20 companies as clients
