RedSail Blog

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a critical role in the pharmacy industry. For better or worse, their involvement is a hot-button issue for independent pharmacists. RedSail Technologies surveyed pharmacy professionals to find out how pharmacy benefit managers affect them and how they expect the industry to evolve.

Spring is right around the corner, temperatures are rising and, it’s time to make your plans — and we’ve got just the event for you.

The landscape of long-term care (LTC) pharmacy is evolving, with new challenges and innovations shaping the future of patient care. While there are many ways to stay current in the pharmacy industry, attending a pharmacy conference is one of the most effective ways to gain new perspectives and immerse yourself in learning.

Did you know there’s an oft-quoted statistic that 64% of features in a piece of software are never used? What a waste of both resources and potential, right? The IT field debates the accuracy of that percentage and who may be at fault. Regardless, we could all ask ourselves, about both our software and our career in general, “What am I wasting because I’m not effectively using what I already have?”

This isn’t another story about the shortage of qualified long-term care workers. You know the headlines: Federal Mandates Chase Out Nursing Home Workers, Experts Predict Widespread Closures of Long-Term Care Facilities. It’s such a constant refrain, it’s not news anymore.

Many things go into an independent pharmacy’s success: the quality of patient care, the range (or lack) of clinical services you provide, the location of your pharmacy, and more. Presentation is one of those often overlooked but vital elements to your pharmacy’s success that can easily go under the radar if you let it.

Many of you may be well acquainted with nursing home payment models – but a short primer can refocus us on important facts or familiarize colleagues newer to the industry.

Did you ever have a product or service you didn’t really like, but avoided getting rid of it because it felt like too much trouble? For example, did you ever use a certain web browser even though you hated it – because all your bookmarks were there, and you had learned to live with the slowness? The thought of switching to another browser just seemed like too much of a pain. Welcome to stickiness! (The bad kind.)