Welcome to the new Innovation Hub. This exclusive section is filled with videos, features and resources including practical tips designed to help pharmacists introduce innovative services to improve patient care. Get started by downloading the featured “step-by-step” guide created by 20 individuals representing the past three years of Leaders In Pharmacy, and learn how to launch your own services.
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Innovation Hub
VIDEOS
Introducing the Innovation HUB – innovation you can use
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Drug synchronization and an appointment-based model (ABM) are critical medication management practices that community pharmacies need to implement if they are to move in the direction of becoming the healthcare hubs they need to be.
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Your neediest Rx patients are not only the key to the most important patient care you provide, and the key to the success of your dispensary business, the same people are your most valuable customers. Read more
Your neediest Rx patients are not only the key to the most important patient care you provide, and the key to the success of your dispensary business, the same people are your most valuable customers. Read more
With the continually changing pharmacy environment, pharmacists are going to have to approach patients and actively market and sell their services. Pharmacist sales skills can dramatically increase the uptake of expanded services and demonstrate how these services address the underlying needs of their patients. Read more
Telepharmacy is the use of technology to provide pharmacy-related value. With this description, a call from your pharmacy to a patient to discuss his or her medications is a form of telepharmacy, something all pharmacists have been doing since they started practising. Read more
Pharmacists are quickly becoming immunization champions. Throughout Canada, pharmacists are not only educating and injecting patients with influenza vaccines but are delivering an increasing number of vaccines in practice. Read more
Despite the well-known fact that influenza vaccination is associated with major public health benefits, the rate of immunization with flu vaccine in Canada in 2012 was only 29 per cent.
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Pharmacists and physicians in the community setting have historically communicated mostly for the purpose of taking verbal prescriptions over the phone, clarifying prescription details, or following up on concerns of patients. Read more
An effective medication review means listening to our patients first. 
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International travel is increasing in popularity among Canadians. There are millions of trips each year to international destinations... Partner content Read more
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Lee-Anne McAlear is the program director for the Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation Management at York University’s Schulich Executive Education Centre in Toronto. Read more
In little more than a decade, in a market dominated by larger chains, we’ve been able to build our independent pharmacy, Janzen’s, into a success... Read more
Good workplace design, in addition to the successful implementation of technology in your pharmacy, can help you gain full value from new technologies. Read more
How can you be a better manager and help your staff perform at their best? Read more
Time is of the essence, but managing time effectively can be a challenge. Time management is a skill that can be learned... Read more
Doing things a bit differently is the hallmark of Bright's Grove Family Pharmacy. Read more
When it comes to staff training, pharmacy owner Bob Mehr is a firm believer in the well-worn adage: “you have to spend money to make money.’’... Read more
Tommy Cheung, a pharmacist and entrepreneur based in Aurora, Ont., is leading the way in healthcare delivery. Seeing a need for enhanced care integration at a community level... Read more
FEATURES
Born in Kenya, Nafisa Merali is a UBC pharmacy graduate (1991).
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Running a successful pharmacy is not all fill and bill. Just ask pharmacist Ahmed Metwally. Read more
Drug synchronization and an appointment-based model (ABM) are critical medication management practices that community pharmacies need to implement if they are to move in the direction of becoming the healthcare hubs they need to be.
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When Betty Golightly decided to add travel health services to her Calgary practice, she committed to offering the highest quality of care. Read more
Just over a year ago, an Ontario mother woke up to the unimaginable – she had found her 8-year-old son unresponsive at home.
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In 2010, pharmacists in Ontario were reeling from the changes to generic drug pricing and professional allowances. While many pharmacy owners felt safe from the shift, Bruce Winston, president of Apex Pharmacies, realized these changes would likely set a precedent for other provincial governments. Read more
If anyone knows the value of first-rate customer service, it’s Pat Piquette, who for 35+ years has been a pharmacist and store manager for the Lovell Drugs chain in eastern Ontario. Read more
How can pharmacists innovate the patient experience so the pharmacy becomes the patient care hub? Read more
We expanded and renovated our Minden Pharmasave to position ourselves to compete against other big brand chains, create new revenue streams to offset losses from the reduction of generic drug rebates in Ontario, and improve the level of service to customers. Read more
Pharmacist Nafisa Merali runs six busy pharmacies in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland. Read more
With the way things are going today with lower rebates on generic drug prices and more government regulations, pharmacies now more than ever need to diversify to generate new businesses and streams of revenue. Read more
The travel bug that bit Jason Kmet landed him in such exotic destinations as Morocco, Read more
Nazlin Khamis’s transformation of Chilliwack Pharmasave from a traditional community pharmacy into a specialty compounding, natural and home health destination has evolved over nearly three decades. Read more
There is a new demographic reality that will have a direct and dramatic effect on pharmacists: Canada’s aging population. Read more
Pharmacy U presenter Bryan Gray of River Terrace Medical Pharmacy puts patient care front and centre
Bryan Gray, owner/operator of River Terrace Medical Pharmacy in Thunder Bay, Ont., is an enthusiastic advocate for patient-centred care and pharmacy practice change. Read more
No one who visits Tara Maltman-Just is just a number. “Mine is a one-on-one practice model that enables me to treat my patients with the integrity, compassion, personalized and comprehensive care that I believe they deserve,” says the Winnipeg-based pharmacist and founding clinician at Vitality Integrative Medicine. Read more
Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. It’s time to take a 360-approach to achieve results. Read more
