Tag: Competition
NCPA names finalists for business plan competition
July 19, 2017HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Community Pharmacists Association has named three teams of pharmacy students as finalists for the 2017 GoodNeighbor Pharmacy NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition. The students hail from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. They will present their business plans in a live competition on Oct. 14 at...
RESNA supports tech innovation
April 9, 2015HME News Staff
NEW YORK - RESNA has partnered with New York University and AT&T on Connect Ability, a competition offering more than $100,000 in prizes to developers for software, wearable and other technology solutions that enhance the lives of people with disabilities. Launched April 6 in New York City, the competition seeks to honor the American with Disabilities Act, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on July 26. NYU and AT&T are partnering with national experts like RESNA to help form teams of engineers...
Selling direct and reality checks
December 19, 2012Liz Beaulieu, Editor
I really want to write about some news in this blog, but I don't want to blow the cover on two stories that will appear in the HME Newswire on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. So I shall not name names, though some of you will surely know whom I'm writing about.
The genesis for these stories was an email about a manufacturer selling its products through a mass retailer as part of a pilot project.
Naturally, I called the manufacturer and I called the mass retailer, and I talked to execs from both. Quotes from...