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The Alabama Department of Public Health is the primary state health agency of the government of the U.S. state of Alabama. It provides a number of public health services to Alabama residents. [1] Chronically underfunded for decades, even by a health professional as governor (Bentley), it ranks near the bottom among states. [2]
First Databank (FDB) is a major provider of drug and medical device databases that help inform healthcare professionals to make decisions. [1] FDB partners with information system developers to deliver useful medication- and medical device-related information to clinicians, business associates, and patients.
Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Jamaica.. Having telephone service to the United States as early as 1936, it was not until 1962 that Jamaica had a high-capacity link for dial service to the US network, which was operated as part of the NANP numbering plan area 809. 809 was designated for parts of the Caribbean region in 1958, and ...
Mar. 19—A new bill filed with the Alabama House of Representatives, HB 238 or the Fair Meds Act, is intended to shed more light on prescription drug costs in the state and require pharmacists to ...
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is an American nonprofit standards development organization representing most sectors of the U.S. pharmacy services industry. It was founded in 1977 as the extension of a Drug Ad Hoc Committee that made recommendations for the U.S. National Drug Code (NDC).
Prescription analytics is the practice of analyzing consumers' prescription drug histories in order to provide useful information for health insurers. In the United States, two-thirds of health insurers use prescription history reports to help identify consumers who may prove expensive to insure, and to set prices or deny coverage. [ 1 ]
In Jamaica there are over 330 health centers, 24 public hospitals, the University Hospital of the West Indies, a regional teaching institution partially funded by Regional Governments including Jamaica, 10 private hospitals and over 495 pharmacies. There are around 5,000 public hospital beds and about 200 in the private sector.
Wolters Kluwer provides a database under their Medi-Span brand called Medi-Span Electronic Drug File v2.5 that provides this therapeutic classification system which can be mapped to other prescription drug classification codes commonly used for payment and analysis in the United States Health Care System. This classification system is used in ...