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Oct 09 2014

California's workers' comp costs could drop by over $120 million annually if it used a closed formulary for drugs, according to a California Workers' Compensation Institute study.

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20141007/NEWS08/141009879?tags=%7C329%7C79%7C87%7C304%7C92
Oct 08 2014

MedBox, which is developing an automated dispensing machine for marijuana, has raised $2.5 million, hitting a high in financing, with individuals jointly putting in the money for this stone-cool product.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/biometrics-developer-cannabis-industry-medbox-raises-2-5m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=520acf41e3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-520acf41e3-67648197
Oct 07 2014

A brief report in the American Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy finds that greater medication adherence is associated with medical cost reductions that more than offset the cost of the drugs.

http://www.amcp.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=18569
Oct 01 2014

In an effort to ensure that especially elderly people take their drugs as prescribed, a variety of new ways of packaging medications, including electronic devices to tell when a person has at least removed the drug from the package.  A metareview in JAMA finds little strong evidence to suggest that such methods increase adherence, although certain reminder systems may have had an effect.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1906619
Sep 22 2014

SureScripts has substantially expanded the use of its network for electronic drug prior authorizations, signing up the two largest PBMs and several technology companies.  Electronic PAs are much more common as specialty use grows.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Surescripts-Expands-e-Prescribing-Service-Network-48838-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-sep%2022%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=healthdatamanagement%3Ae3096652%3A3722900a%3A&st=email
Aug 20 2014

Clinverse has raised $9.5 million for its software to help make and track payments from clinical trial sponsors to investigative sites.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/clinverse-raises-9-1m-to-take-complexities-out-of-clinical-trial-payments/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=899c7dc55e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-899c7dc55e-67648197
Aug 18 2014

The market for systems and services to order drugs and manage medication therapies will grow to $1.6 billion by 2019, according to Markets and Markets.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/medication-management-market-107137346.html
Aug 14 2014

The Medicare Trustees are projecting that increased use of expensive specialty drugs will drive Part D spending rapidly higher in the next few years.

http://www.rxobserver.com/?p=2358
Aug 11 2014

The FDA is issuing two guidances of interest to lab test makers, one that finalizes guidance on companion diagnostics used with certain drug treatments and one that announces FDA's intent to more comprehensively regulate "home-brew" or laboratory-developed tests, which previously had little to no scrutiny of their accuracy and reliability.

http://www.fiercemedicaldevices.com/press-releases/fda-takes-steps-help-ensure-reliability-certain-diagnostic-tests?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Aug 01 2014

According to ZS Associates, physicians continue to make themselves less accessible to drug company sales representatives, with 49% placing moderate to strong restrictions on access compared to only 23% in 2008.

http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=690176
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