Pharmacy Times Announces Partnership With Pharmacy Podcast To Bring Pharmacy Industry Information To The Next Level

PLAINSBORO, NJ (Feb. 9, 2015) — Pharmacy Times, an industry-leading media resource providing practical information to pharmacists, today announced a strategic collaboration with the Pharmacy Podcast Show, an audio blog for pharmacy owners and management teams, to strengthen dialogue and spur innovation around key topics regarding the pharmacy profession, health care, and pharmacy business. Pharmacy Podcast creator and host Todd S. Eury will work with Pharmacy Times to create future content and episodes of the podcast that will be integrated into the blog section of the Pharmacy Times website.

Pharmacy Times is sponsoring the podcast’s 200th episode, which launches online today. In this episode, Fred Eckel, R.Ph., M.S., editor in chief of Pharmacy Times, and Tighe Blazier, president of Michael J. Hennessy Associates, Inc., discuss trends in the pharmacy industry. Listen to this episode of Pharmacy Podcast at http://www.pharmacytimes.com/blogs/pharmacy-podcast-show.

“We are honored to welcome Todd Eury and Pharmacy Podcast to the Pharmacy Times family,” said Ashley Hennessy Talamo, publisher of Pharmacy Times. “He has a widely respected voice and industry perspective that will be an asset to our readers.”

Eury interviews experts and shares perspectives on pharmacy technology, policy, business practices, marketing, and other related pharmacy business topics in episodes of Pharmacy Podcast. Since its inception in 2009, the audio blog has built an audience of more than 40,000 subscribers and listeners across more than 40 countries.

The existing blog content on the Pharmacy Times website is a blend of discussion, opinion and advice addressing pharmacy trends and challenges as well as broader relevant topics in health care. Integration of the Pharmacy Podcast audio blog is intended to bring pharmacy content to the next level in a “Read — Look – Listen” model serving each partner’s pharmacy audiences.

“I’m excited to join the conversations that are already under way on the Pharmacy Times blog. We’re taking two great pharmacy industry resources and integrating them in a way that opens the door for two-way communication among readers, listeners and content creators,” said Eury, a serial entrepreneur who has dedicated his initiatives to the business of pharmacy.

Full episodes of Pharmacy Podcast can be found at http://pharmacypodcast.com/category/podcasts/ or at http://www.pharmacytimes.com/blogs/pharmacy-podcast-show.

About Pharmacy Times

Pharmacy Times is the industry’s leading media resource, providing practical, clinical information pharmacists can use in their everyday practices when counseling patients and interacting with physicians. Each issue contains articles and features covering medication errors, drug interactions, patient education, pharmacy technology, disease state management, patient counseling, product news, pharmacy law and specialty pharmacy. The Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Learn more at www.PharmacyTimes.com, write to info@pharmacytimes.com, call 609-716-7777 or visit us on Facebook or Twitter. Pharmacy Times is published by Michael J. Hennessy Associates, Inc., a leading provider of health care media resources, research, information and education.

Media contacts:

For Pharmacy Times

Becky Taylor, 609-240-6886 or becky@btaylorpa.com; Tara Petersen, editorial director, Pharmacy Times, 609-716-7777, ext. 214 or tpetersen@pharmacytimes.com.

For Pharmacy Podcast

Todd Eury, editor in chief, Pharmacy Podcast Show, 412-585-4001 or Publisher@PharmacyPodcast.com.