Smiths Medical has unveiled a new service that uploads a digital drug library into its syringe pumps to cut back on medical errors.This technology in the PharmGuard Anesthesia Software Service enables hospitals to comply with a recommendation by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation that infusions of “high-alert drugs” like epinephrine “be delivered by an electronically-controlled [...]

Retail pharmacies are becoming the new front line in North Carolina’s war against methamphetamine.Pharmacists would need to check a national database of pseudoephedrine product purchases before cold and allergy sufferers can buy the products under a bill now awaiting Gov. Bev Perdue’s signature. Lawmakers ratified the bill on Thursday. The proposed electronic tracking system is [...]

The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is closer to a new, shorter name after the Ohio House of Representatives passed a measure that would make the school known as Northeast Ohio Medical University.House Bill 139 passed by a vote of 94-1 and moves onto the Ohio Senate. An “emergency” clause in the [...]

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and pharmaceuticals distributors of its ilk will have few better friends over the coming years than generic drugs.The so-called “generic wave” — created by scores of brand-name drugs whose patents are expiring between this year and 2015 — is expected to be a huge boon to drug wholesalers like Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal, [...]

The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy is taking steps to reverse a rule that limits state residents from transferring a prescription from one pharmacy to another more than once per year.The rule, which took effect Jan. 1, was popular among pharmacists but criticized by consumers, who labeled it anti-competitive, the Columbus Dispatch reported.The Board of [...]

Pharmacy IT firm Centice is raising $1.5 million as the North Carolina company continues to pursue broader applications for technology originally developed as a way of verifying prescriptions.

Health information technology company Access Mobility has developed a mobile patient medication adherence platform it calls CellepathicRx. A recent report found that patients’ failure to follow physicians’ instructions costs the U.S. health system nearly $300 billion per year.

The prescription safety technology developed by North Carolina company Centice drew more than $22 million in investments over seven years, but the resulting product failed to draw many customers. Now Centice is looking to improve its prospects by adapting the technology for other applications.

A newly elected Ohio Democratic state senator has become the latest to push a legislative proposal that would require “cultural competency” classes for healthcare workers. The proposed law, Senate Bill 60, would apply to a wide variety of state-licensed or -certified professionals, including physicians, nurses, dentists, optometrists and pharmacists.

As generic drugs increasingly replace brand names in the coming years, pharmaceuticals wholesalers like Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) will see their operating profits rise “dramatically,” according to a report from Barclays Capital.