Modern Medicine’s Fred Gebhart published an article today about pharmacy technicians increasing role in running pharmacies and the expanded training and CE that is being required of them in today’s (especially in health-systems) pharmacy environment: More accreditation activity sounds good to Barbara Lacher, BS, R.Ph.Tech, associate professor and assistant director for the North Dakota State College of Science Pharmacy Technician Program. NDSC modeled its technician program based on pharmacy programs focused on professional education

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Pharmacy Techs’ education, roles increasingly expanded, now includes telepharmacy

The Lawrence County Journal fills us in with an article on the new telepharmacy pilot project in South Dakota’s Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital: The total cost of the telepharmacy equipment was just more than $27,000 and will save more than $106,500 annually. Funding was provided in part by a payout from the dissolution of the Western Plains Health Consortium, in part by the LDRH Foundation, with the remainder covered by contingency funding. The telepharmacy unit’s home setting, which is in LDRH, has two high-resolution digital cameras: One observes the activity of the pharmacy tech.

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South Dakota hospital pilots telepharmacy program

Bryan Meadows of the Chronicle Journal writes about Colin J. Pienaar and Maritza du Preez, a pair of pharmacists from Sioux Lookout winning an award at the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association annual meeting for getting the first Community hospital joined to the Ontario Telemedicine Network: In an interview Thursday, Pienaar said the couple was very surprised by the recognition. “We did everything because we felt it was necessary at the time.

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Ontario pharmacists awarded for telepharmacy work

According to Kate Traynor writing for ASHP , the Fairview Health Services network of hospitals in Minnesota is considering allowing their pharmacists to work from home in the event they or a family member contracts the flu: Allowing pharmacists to work off-site is another option under discussion. Knoer said the seven-hospital Fairview Health Services network that includes his medical center has some experience with remote order verification.

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Is telepharmacy an answer to Swine Flu reducing available pharmacy staff?

An online business newspaper, the Memphis Commerical Appeal covered Comprehensive’s acquisition of a Remote Order Entry company that will allow remote pharmacy services for the pharmacy services giant ( original press release ): Upshaw said remote order entry services are fairly new to the pharmacy landscape. Comprehensive Pharmacy began pursuing the market area in 2007.

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Comprehensive Pharmacy Services acquires "remote pharmacy technology"

The Minnesota retail pharmacy that opened a few months ago had its grand opening last week in Adrian. Julie Buntjer of the Worthington Daily Globe did a write up on the event and the pharmacy’s operations : Erpestad takes prescriptions at the Adrian telepharmacy and sends digital images of the prescription, the pill bottle and the pills to Sterling Drug in Worthington, where Hagen or a fellow pharmacist must examine each image on the computer screen and approve of the medication before it can be dispensed to the customer.

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Minnesota retail telepharmacy has grand opening

Kansas University’s West Campus is getting a new building that will house a pharmacy that employs telepharmacy: A pharmacy is planned for the building, which Audus said would serve KU students, faculty and staff, so as not to compete with other pharmacies in the area. That pharmacy may use automated technology, including tele-pharmacy, he said. That’s similar to a U.S

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Kansas University to use telepharmacy in new building

The Pennsylvania Mountains Healthcare Resource Development ( PMHRD ) received a grant from Highmark, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in a pair of nearly identical articles . Dianne Emminger, VP of IS for ACMH Hospital commented on what they intend to use the grant for: The funding will be used to purchase equipment and software, Emminger said. ACMH Hospital will partner with the other hospitals and care centers to provide residents those services, which are in short supply in rural communities, Emminger said

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Pennsylvania Hospitals receive technology grant, hope to implement telepharmacy

July 2009 Issue 2.09 Welcome to the Summer issue of Transitions . The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication.

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Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community – July 2009

The storied history of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program is now available for the world to hear. “The Peter Nazareth Collection,” which consists of 30 years of audio interviews with IWP participants and guests, is digitally archived at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/vwu . Since 1967, more than 1,000 creative writers from 120 countries have visited the university to attend the IWP.

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Interviews with International Writers Added to the Iowa Digital Library

The decennial census has been called the statistical national family portrait that is taken every ten years.  The next snapshot is scheduled for April 1, 2010 and there will be big changes in the process. The constitutionally mandated census counts heads, families, housing facts, and social, demographic and economic characteristics.  The results may alter the boundaries of legislative districts, the apportionment of legislators within a district and allocated government funding. On August 21, 2009, The University of Iowa Libraries’ will sponsor a workshop covering the important changes that researchers and information providers must know about the 2010 census.  Participants will go on virtual tours of resources and have hands-on practice with web-based information sources.  Two speakers will present different perspectives on the upcoming 2010 census: Matthew Milbrodt, Information Services Specialist, Bureau of Census, Kansas City Regional Office, and Beth Henning, Coordinator, State Data Center Program, State Library of Iowa.

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What You Need to Know about the 2010 Census

Materials from the Art Library will not be available from July 27-August 7 while we are moving them to the 2nd floor of the Main Library.  Please use Interlibrary Loan for items you need during this time.  Delivery requests placed after midnight July 23 will not be processed until we reopen.  Since the “art stacks” will be open for browsing in the Main Library, we will no longer offer the Main Library as a pick-up location.  The Art and Music Libraries office, room 2006, has Art’s current journal issues, media and Fall Reserves.

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Art Library moving to Main Library July 27 – August 7

Touching Home is a coming of age story about a homeless father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue professional baseball. It is a courageous and honest portrayal of a family fighting to overcome the pain of wasted years and the crushing forces of addiction. Three months after their homeless father died in jail, twin filmmakers, Logan and Noah Miller, cornered Ed Harris in an alley outside the Castro Theatre and pitched him on their autobiographical movie, Touching Home .

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FREE Screening of “Touching Home” – Fri @ 10 p.m. and Sat @ 4 p.m.

The University of Iowa Libraries has announced the acquisition of the Mariellen (Ming) Wathne Fanzine Archive Collection. This large collection of some 3,000 science fiction fanzines is an important accumulation of fan-created work and a significant addition to the fanzine holdings of the University Libraries. The Fanzine Archive Collection contains thousands of fanzines focused on popular media properties such as “Star Trek” and “Star Wars.” Those related to “Star Wars” were originally collected by Lucasfilm Ltd., producer of the Star Wars series

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UI Libraries acquires sci-fi fanzine collection; includes ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ pieces

“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is the 2009 selection for “One Community, One Book.” The project promotes insights on human rights in the United States and across the globe and is coordinated by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) in conjunction with other sponsoring organizations from Johnson County and the UI. The goal of the project is to encourage people to read and discuss the selected book in order to develop a greater community awareness of human rights issues locally, nationally and internationally.

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"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" selected for One Community, One Book

According to the Contra Costa times, enrollment in vocational training programs such as Medical Assistant is soaring. Here is an excerpt from the article: Sharae Gandy and Donna Gutierrez are victims of the depressed housing market who are turning their misfortunes into new opportunities. More than a year ago, both women enjoyed well-paying positions in financial institutions that specialized in home loans

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As Joblessness Soars, So Does Adult Education Enrollment

2008 has proven to be a very productive year for PTCB and pharmacy technicians nationwide. Earlier this year, PTCB reached the milestone of 300,000 pharmacy technicians certified by PTCB. Also this year, significant strides have been made on the legislative front to promote the important role of pharmacy technicians in ensuring patient safety

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PTCB Certification Becoming More Important For Pharmacy Technicians