SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 9, 2025--
XiFin, a leading provider of innovative healthcare revenue cycle management solutions that deliver artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled operational efficiency, interoperability, and simplicity, today previewed findings from its 2025 Pharmacy Transformation Outlook Survey, which highlights the growing role of pharmacists and the increasing interest in achieving operational efficiency through new technology and expanding pharmacy offerings via value-based care and specialty pharmacy. Alongside the findings and in advance of National Pharmacist Day on January 12, XiFin announced its CareALERTS™ smart clinical messaging technology successfully drove additional vaccinations in 2024.
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Early Study Findings
As a recurring study, the XiFin 2025 Pharmacy Transformation Outlook Survey offers a forward-looking snapshot of how pharmacies are preparing for and adapting to a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. This year’s preliminary findings from over 350 respondents across the pharmacy sector revealed:
Survey respondents represented diverse pharmacy settings, with 12% from medium- to large-sized retail pharmacies, 27.3% from hospitals or ambulatory services, and 5% from specialty pharmacy. Of the survey respondents, nearly four in ten (38%) held senior titles at pharmacy service providers, holding positions from directors to C-level. For those interested in a deep dive into the results, mark your calendars for the February 12 thDSN Webinar, The2025 Pharmacy Transformation Outlook: Unlocking Insights to Drive Innovation and Growth.
“Pharmacies stand at a crossroads in 2025, with opportunities to enhance patient care by operationalizing services in value-based care, specialty pharmacy, office visits and chronic disease management,” said David Pope, Chief Pharmacy Officer at XiFin. “However, there is a growing recognition that capitalizing on these opportunities depends on adopting the right technologies to deliver the best patient care possible, while efficiently processing, billing, and securing reimbursement, ensuring these initiatives are both effective and sustainable.”
2024 CareALERTS Immunization Results: Pharmacies Making a Difference
XiFin is also proud to share the results from its 2024 CareALERTS immunization initiative, conducted in partnership with community pharmacies nationwide. The alert technology successfully helped increase companion immunizations by 18% among participating pharmacies, surpassing initial projections and highlighting the critical role pharmacists play in public health.
“As we celebrate National Pharmacist Day, it’s a perfect time to recognize the pivotal role pharmacists play in safeguarding public health and fostering equitable care,” said Lâle White, XiFin CEO. “The outstanding CareALERTS immunization results are a testament not only to the dedication and expertise of pharmacists, but also to the critical role technology plays in an evolving healthcare landscape. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited to expand the CareALERTS program, showcasing how innovations like this empower pharmacists to advance health equity and build healthier communities.”
CareALERTS leverages one of the pharmacy industry’s most extensive immunization databases, using proprietary data mining to deliver targeted, patient- and vaccine-specific alerts. This innovative approach enables pharmacists to seize immunization opportunities at the point of care. Notable outcomes include:
About XiFin
XiFin is a healthcare information technology company that empowers healthcare organizations to navigate an increasingly complex and evolving healthcare landscape. XiFin Pharmacy Solutions is a portfolio of software and services designed to help pharmacies achieve a stronger financial base and optimized and automated workflows. Through innovative AI-enabled technologies and services, we deliver operational efficiency, interoperability, and simplicity. The company’s revenue cycle management, clinical workflow enablement, laboratory information system, and patient engagement solutions enable organizations to achieve stronger finances, streamline operations, and develop industry-leading business strategies. XiFin solutions deliver THE POWER TO DO GOOD™ so that healthcare organizations can do more good for more patients. Visit www.XiFin.com, follow XiFin on LinkedIn, or subscribe to the XiFin blog to learn more.
XiFin Salutes Pharmacists' Critical Role in Community Health (Graphic: Business Wire)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544.
Iran had no immediate reaction to the news, which came after the foreign minister of Oman — long an interlocutor between Washington and Tehran — traveled to Iran this weekend. It also remains unclear just what Iran could promise, particularly as Trump has set strict demands over its nuclear program and its ballistic missile arsenal, which Tehran insists is crucial for its national defense.
Meanwhile Monday, Iran called for pro-government demonstrators to head to the streets in support of the theocracy, a show of force after days of protests directly challenging the rule of 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian state television aired chants from the crowd, who shouted “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”
Trump and his national security team have been weighing a range of potential responses against Iran including cyberattacks and direct strikes by the U.S. or Israel, according to two people familiar with internal White House discussions who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday night. Asked about Iran’s threats of retaliation, he said: “If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.”
Trump said that his administration was in talks to set up a meeting with Tehran, but cautioned that he may have to act first as reports of the death toll in Iran mount and the government continues to arrest protesters.
“I think they’re tired of being beat up by the United States,” Trump said. “Iran wants to negotiate.”
He added: “The meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what’s happening before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up. Iran called, they want to negotiate.”
Iran through country's parliamentary speaker warned Sunday that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America uses force to protect demonstrators.
More than 10,600 people also have been detained over the two weeks of protests, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in previous unrest in recent years and gave the death toll. It relies on supporters in Iran crosschecking information. It said 496 of the dead were protesters and 48 were with security forces.
With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the toll. Iran’s government has not offered overall casualty figures.
Those abroad fear the information blackout is emboldening hard-liners within Iran’s security services to launch a bloody crackdown. Protesters flooded the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Online videos purported to show more demonstrations Sunday night into Monday, with a Tehran official acknowledging them in state media.
In Tehran, a witness told the AP that the streets of the capital empty at the sunset call to prayers each night. By the Isha, or nighttime prayer, the streets are deserted.
Part of that stems from the fear of getting caught in the crackdown. Police sent the public a text message that warned: “Given the presence of terrorist groups and armed individuals in some gatherings last night and their plans to cause death, and the firm decision to not tolerate any appeasement and to deal decisively with the rioters, families are strongly advised to take care of their youth and teenagers.”
Another text, which claimed to come from the intelligence arm of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, also directly warned people not to take part in demonstrations.
“Dear parents, in view of the enemy’s plan to increase the level of naked violence and the decision to kill people, ... refrain from being on the streets and gathering in places involved in violence, and inform your children about the consequences of cooperating with terrorist mercenaries, which is an example of treason against the country,” the text warned.
The witness spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing crackdown.
The demonstrations began Dec. 28 over the collapse of the Iranian rial currency, which trades at over 1.4 million to $1, as the country’s economy is squeezed by international sanctions in part levied over its nuclear program. The protests intensified and grew into calls directly challenging Iran’s theocracy.
Nikhinson reported from aboard Air Force One.
In this frame grab from video obtained by the AP outside Iran, a masked demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi during a protest in Tehran, Iran, Friday, January. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran shows protesters taking to the streets despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.(UGC via AP)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran showed protesters once again taking to the streets of Tehran despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Jan. 10, 2026. (UGC via AP)
