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  • Illegal drug sales booming online

    The quantity of illegal and possibly unsafe pharmaceutical drugs being sold online is increasing, according to a report from the International Narcotics Control Board.

  • SA health to cut errors with $4.4m pharma system

    The South Australian government has pledged AU$4.4 million to put a new pharmacy management system in 11 hospitals.

  • Online medicine: A bitter pill

    In their rush to make a name for themselves, online companies have underestimated the monumental difficulties of integrating the massively outdated technologies used to run the medical business.

  • Search engines face drug test

    A major U.S. pharmacy trade group is pressuring Web-based search engines to ban advertisements from unlicensed drug dealers, highlighting growing pains for the Net's newest marketing powerhouses.

  • Google gets into health records search

    Google launched a new initiative aimed at the health care market this week and announced major industry partners including universities, pharmacies and hospitals, declaring its intention to give people access to all their healthcare information in the one spot.

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  • McKesson Corp: Randy Spratt, CIO

    McKesson is America's oldest and largest health care services company. In this CIO Vision Series interview, Randy Spratt explains IT's critical role across the organisation.

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