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PPO Reprints
First-Hand Report On Aftermath Of Joplin Tornados From Members new!
After a Category EF5 tornado ravaged St.
John’s Mercy Regional Medical Center and the residents of Joplin, Missouri on May 22, we contacted the NPPA members
who work in facilities close to Joplin, to reach out in sympathy as well as to see if they had any firsthand experience from
it that we could interview them on and they could report on, in hopes their fellow Pharmacy Buyers across the country could
learn and be better prepared in the event of such a disaster in their area. Click HERE to read about their experiences.
Senate Bill To Address Drug Shortages - Jan-Feb 2011 new! On February 5, U.S. Senators
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation that would provide the
FDA with key tools to help address and prevent shortages of prescription drug medications. For instance,
ASHP (the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists), currently lists
150 “medically necessary” drugs that are in short supply, which is double
the number of such necessary medications in short-supply as compared to 5 years ago.
Promoting The Pharmacy Buyer - October 2010 new!
Do you ever talk to the Executives or
upper management about what you do as a Buyer? Do you talk to the Pharmacy staff about what you do? Do people know what you
really do as the Pharmacy Buyer? Buyers in today’s environment need to be interacting with all levels of management,
Doctor’s, Clinical Staff, Nursing Staff, Pharmacy Staff, and Materials Management personnel.
So you've finally decided to come to Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook's
Annual Networking Conference. Now what? Here is a brief primer on The Strip; what to expect when you get there,
tips on navigating The Strip, Conference decorum, what to do with the family while you're at the lectures, and how to best
enjoy The Strip with your family and friends after the lectures.
If you want to get a feel of the highlights from
the 14th Annual NPPA Conference held at The MGM Grand Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas August 12-15, 2010,
we have posted here a review, which covering the entire four days of the Conference, which was also published in
our September '10 and the October '10 edition of of Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook, the official publication of NPPA.
Does Your Disaster Plan Really Work? - March 2010
Everyone’s disaster plan is designed for an external situation and your
response would be very straightforward. If a chemical were released, you would have the neutralizing agent and supportive
drugs requested from your wholesaler. If a natural disaster, you may have pain meds and antibiotics sent. But if your own
entire drug inventory were suddenly in question compromised, what would you restock it with…everything?
Today, 7 in 10 prescriptions filled in the
U.S. are for generic drugs. This fact sheet, released by the FDA on October
13, 2009, explains how generic drugs are made and approved, and debunks some
common myths about these products.
If you want to get a feel of the highlights from
the 13th Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference held at The MGM Grand Hotel and Conference Center in Las
Vegas August 17-20, 2009, we have posted here a review, which covering the entire four days of the Conference, which was
also published in our September '09 and the October '09 edition of PPO newsletter.
Many
of our Subscribers face the possibility of being victims of hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters that literally
put them out of work for extended periods of time. The September issue of PPO describes the issues two of our Subscribers
faced in the wake of three major hurricanese back-to-back.
If you want to get a feel of the highlights from the 12th
Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference held at The Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and Convention Center in Las
Vegas August 11-14, 2008, we have posted here a review, which covers all four days of the Conference, was published in our September
and October '08 edition of PPO newsletter.
Specialty Wholesalers Clean Up - June 2008
A follow up to "Those Secondary Vendors," this
article follows the steps the Specialty Distributors have taken to erase the stigma of the Secondary Wholesalers of the Eighties
and the efforts, both internally and externally to make their businesses more accountable.
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