The data explosion will change the world. Around this time last year, the United Nations put together a “data revolution advisory group” to inform the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals debate. Its work culminated in a report, “A World that Counts”, which contains examples of how the data revolution is already improving general quality of life. But where does pharmacy stand? The latest International Pharmacy Journal (vol 33;2) focuses on some of data revolution concepts — crowd-sourced data, real-world and real-time data, big data and data mining — as they relate to pharmacy and pharmaceutical scientists.

Dive into 50+ pages of pharmacy matters from around the globe!

Don’t miss:

• Big data: how far are we from the revolution in healthcare?
• Tweeted pharmacovigilance and thalidomide! We interview the director of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre
• New pharmacy service for patients with multiple sclerosis
• How crowd power is being applied to research
• Lab Boxes: The FIP project bringing learning to life
• Communicating your research — tips from the experts!
• Pharmacy-generated records becoming public health resources
• Real-world data improving access to medicines
• Models to equip hospital pharmacists for the information age
• Opinion: Big data and the pharmacist — caution advised
• Opinion: Community pharmacies deserve a renaissance
• Pharmacy in Panama: From shortages to new sources of medicines
• Middle East respiratory syndrome: Nine things you should know
• News round-up: FIP at the World Health Assembly and more

And news includes:

• UNESCO renews unique agreement to develop pharmacy education with FIP
• Health leaders commit to improving quality and sharing data
• 100 core health indicators published
• Ground-breaking medicines classed as “essential”
• Record haul of illegal medicines
• Explore pooled procurement of vaccines, WHA says
• FIP at the 2015 World Health Assembly
• Decades of progress in TB will be undone unless AMR is addressed
• New report shows 400 million have no access to essential health services
• Community pharmacists get access to patient medical records
• Australian Government sticks by recommendation on biological switching
• Healthcare professions join forces against transatlantic trade agreement
• Medicines theft is the new pharmaceutical crimewave
• Pharmacists raise alarm over “purple drank”

All this and more is available today!

FIP members can access the interactive magazine and pdf here.