Nice Article on the Specialty Pharmacy Outlook

If you're looking for some weekend reading, I highly recommend Connecting Patients With Specialty Products: The Future of Specialty Drug Distribution, from the latest Biotechnology Healthcare journal. (Free download)

Jack McCain, the reporter at BH, did a really nice job of explaining future trends in specialty pharmacy, including such topics as specialty-at-retail and buy-and-bill. As you'll see, I contributed to the article, along with some other consultants.

And in case you're curious to learn more, I provide a few related resources below.

Additional reading:

• I highlight Part 1 ("Distribution models for biologics and other specialty pharmaceutical products" in Useful Overview of Specialty Distribution Models. It's also worth your time.

• The article's specialty dispensing market share data originally appeared here: 2011 Pharmacy Market Share for Specialty Drugs.

• The Zitter Group collected intriguing data on oral oncology channels. See Oral Oncology Channel Battle: Payers vs. Providers.