Who's Gerry?
I'm a passionate retailer and marketeer with a love story for #business #healthcare #retail & #pharmacy. Fascinated with #customerexperience & #consumertrends. I do my best.
Affordability makes precision health more accessible The ‘one-size-fits-all' approach to health care is nearing an end ushering in the era of precision. The future of health care lies in harnessing the power of molecular approaches embodied…
Gerry SpitznerDoesn't it just make sense to personalize medication dosage if we have the tools to do so. Especially age related demographic.This is the future of Pharmacy point of care testing.
Alphabet is convening employees from across its various health units, including life-sciences R&D unit Verily and health-focused artificial intelligence project Google Brain, for an invitation-only two-day conference at the company's Sunnyvale…
Gerry SpitznerAlphabet (Google) is just one of the technology companies that has made moves in health in recent years. Innovation is gonna get interesting.
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training. We sat in three rows, each of us parked behind a desktop computer. In one month, our…
Gerry SpitznerDigitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients? Regardless of where one is in healthcare the same truth and challenge is true.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven't subscribed yet…
Historically, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, when a patient has been discharged from the hospital and has had a hypertensive disorder during her pregnancy or postpartum period, it recommended…
Gerry SpitznerThis case study shows how UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital accomplished that reduction by sending new mothers home with a free blood pressure cuff and access to a remote monitoring portal.
Get all the latest industry news in your inbox. Email address CVS Health and Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart announced a joint effort to raise consumer awareness about the importance of safe medication disposal. Sheriff Dart joined CVS Pharmacy's…
Gerry SpitznerHy-Vee’s pharmacists work hand-in-hand with its in-store registered dietitians to provide health and nutrition counseling for patients.
Get all the latest industry news in your inbox. Email address As with the rest of the pharmacy business, the generics category has been changing — particularly as the Food and Drug Administration pursues its plan to speed up the approval…
Gerry SpitznerInteresting perspectives. A virtual roundtable of executives from generics companies discuss the state of the industry and the challenges ahead, and how their companies plan to tackle them.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email A UBC professor has started a walk-in mental health clinic on the school's Kelowna campus. It is the first of its kind in the city. Lesley Lutes, associate professor in UBC's department of…
Updated: November 5, 2018 8:14 am EST Lowe's Companies Inc is closing 20 underperforming stores in the United States and 31 in Canada as part of a restructuring, the home improvement retailer said on Monday. Lowe's, which has trailed Home Depot in…
Gerry SpitznerA good consolidation move to get rid of a few difficult locations (aka 'dogs') in the portfolio and save some money. Closing the two fulfillment centres will save them a ton. Might be the bigger story. Harsh..but true.
Adidas on Wednesday reported that third quarter currency-neutral revenues rose 8% or 3% to €5.87 billion from €5.68 billion last year ($6.72 billion from $6.5 billion, respectively, in U.S. dollars). Top-line sales were driven by…
Gerry SpitznerI sense a BIGGER shift than we've ever seen this year on Black Friday through to Christmas.
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