As of October 2018, this is what Alexa is used for… It would be interesting to see statistics from other devices such as Google home and Siri, however, I am sure they are very similar. I think this is the emergence of a new digital ecosystem, similar to how the iPhone established the Apple Store […]
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Over the past few years, there has been a lot of news surrounding the availability of Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs) such as Epipen. My favourite story is the almost comic villainisation of Heather Bresch from Mylan in the US who, seeing an opportunity in the market increased the price of Epipen by 461% and as a consequence received […]
Times are changing. Efficiencies brought by digitisation of healthcare will have repercussions we can only partly imagine. Much like the candlestick maker prognosticating their future job prospects in the 1900s the community pharmacy industry is doing the same in 2018. Someone once told me that “pharmacy ended the day the pill was invented“, quite right, there […]