FLAVORx provides pharmacy schools and technician programs with the tools and resources necessary to educate students about the role of flavoring with respect to medication adherence and the patient experience. Using the FLAVORx system, faculty members encourage their students to recognize the importance of taste barriers and personalization when it Read more…
Flu Season and Flavoring – Helping Kids be CompliantAs many of you are well aware, this looks to be another heavy flu season. As you and your team find yourselves dispensing more Tamiflu oral suspension (OS) and, due to a shortage of the OS, the compounded oral suspension, it is Read more…
Family Care Pharmacy of Jacksonville, of Jacksonville, NC, wins the inaugural FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy of the Year Award. Runners-up include Apple Discount Drugs of Salisbury, MD; Family Pharmacy of Worcester, MA; Gilbert Pharmacy of Gilbert, WV; Lawton Chiles Children and Family of Bradenton, FL; Miller Drug of Bangor, ME; and Read more…
FLAVORx will present its first ever Independent Pharmacy of the Year Award in October, to coincide with American Pharmacists Month. We would like to announce the inaugural FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy of the Year award, to be presented each October in conjunction with American Pharmacists Month. The 2013 FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy Read more…
Cold and flu season is here! Refer to this handy guide for flavoring and re-flavoring popular cold and flu medications. Pictures of the best-tasting flavors are listed next to each corresponding drug.
Welcome! Welcome to the FLAVORx blog. This is the first official post of what I hope will be gobs of informative, thought-provoking, and, every now and then, fun commentary on a wide range of topics related to pharmacy and healthcare. Heck, we may even stray from those topics every now Read more…
National Pharmacy Technician Day is on October 23rd this year. We would like to give a big THANK YOU to so many terrific technicians who offer valuable service to our FLAVORx pharmacies. Some of our very own FLAVORx pharmacists shared special shout-outs with us about their technicians. Technician “Shout Outs”! Read more…
With allergy season in full swing in most parts of the country, many kids are once again faced with the task of taking their allergy medicine day-in and day-out. This year looks to be particularly daunting with the early onset of Spring and heavy pollen counts. FLAVORx makes life a Read more…
New Pharmacy Automation Technology on Display at McKesson ideaShare 2011 Fillmaster Plus reconstitution and flavoring device uses bar code scanning to save time and reduce the risk of dispensing error while promoting higher patient compliance. Independent pharmacists looking for innovative ways to provide stellar customer service, improve the bottom-line and Read more…
As pharmacists across the country are compounding Tamiflu capsules into a liquid form for children, FLAVORx provides flavoring guidance to improve compliance. With the 2010-2011 flu season in full swing, pharmacies are dealing with a shortage in supply of the commercially prepared liquid form of Tamiflu for children. To satisfy Read more…