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  HDA reviews key priority issues and advocates on behalf of its pharmaceutical distributor members for standards, public policies and business processes that ensure a safe and efficient supply chain.
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  HDA regularly brings members and key healthcare supply chain stakeholders together to share industry information, learn about best practices, and be introduced to new products and services.
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  HDA and the HDA Research Foundation produce a variety of resources to enhance the value of the supply chain and increase industry knowledge.

Allied Against Opioid Abuse

HDA convenes partners to address public health crisis.

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Origin: HDA Product Data Source

Now available, Origin is a high-powered GTIN repository service designed to facilitate DSCSA compliance.

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Traceability Seminar

Join us October 17-19 in Washington, D.C.

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Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition Now Part of HDA

HDA members now receive expanded access to pharmaceutical supply chain security resources.

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FEATURED UPCOMING EVENTS

2018 Traceability Seminar

October 17 to 19, 2018 | Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, Washington, DC

HDA’s annual Traceability Seminar brings together healthcare supply chain leaders to learn more about upcoming DSCSA implementation milestones as well as innovative approaches and lessons learned as distributors,...

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Capital Wholesale Drug Co., located in Columbus, Ohio, is a regional full-line pharmaceutical wholesaler. Capital Wholesale Drug Co. services retail pharmacies, nursing home providers, home healthcare providers and hospitals. The business started in 1927.

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IN THE NEWS

August 6, 2018

HDA Research Foundation Report Analyzes Reverse Distribution of Pharmaceutical Products

July 20, 2018

HDA Statement on FDA Work Group to Examine Prescription Drug Importation

June 12, 2018

Michael A. Conley of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Recognized with 2018 Nexus Award for Lifetime Achievement

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ISSUES IN DISTRIBUTION

Pharmaceutical Traceability

HDA is now leading industry efforts to implement the 2013 Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) that replaced a 50-state patchwork of pedigree requirements with one federal solution to trace prescription...

Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion

HDA and our primary pharmaceutical distributor members are committed to bringing industry and government together to tackle our nation’s complex prescription drug abuse and diversion epidemic, a serious...

Importation of Prescription Medicines

HDA opposes permitting the importation into the U.S. of pharmaceuticals sold or designated for sale in foreign countries. HDA firmly believes that allowing importation increases the likelihood of counterfeit...

Taxes

HDA opposes repeal of the Last in, First Out (LIFO) accounting method and establishment of gross receipts taxes. Healthcare distribution represents a high-volume, low-profit margin business that is impacted...