Stephen C. Schimpff, KevinMD
“Robotics has the potential to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare. It can help extend the delivery of information, expertise and clinical care across time and geographical space barriers. Robotics offers the opportunity to enhance quality of care through extension of clinical expertise and leveraging of integrated datasets and best practices.
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e-Health-com News
“Der Schweizerische Apothekerverband pharmaSuisse, das Schweizer Zentrum für Telemedizin MEDGATE und der Kranken- und Unfallversicherer Helsana starten ein Pilotprojekt mit einem zukunftsweisenden Versorgungsmodell. Unter dem Namen netCare werden ab April 2012 rund 200 Apotheken ihre Leistungspalette mit neuartigen telemedizinischen Leistungen ergänzen.
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Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“Physicians and pharmacists who have already begun e-prescribing are pioneers of sorts, struggling to break through the tangle of technology and workflow, and clearing a path for others to follow. A new study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association examined the experiences of some of these pioneers, concluding that while e-prescribing technology has matured, there is still room for improvement.
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Apiscam
“La Sociedad Española de Farmacia Rural (SEFAR) ha presentado los resultados del estudio piloto de Teledermatología llevado a cabo en cinco farmacias rurales desde el mes de octubre, destacando que el 63,6 por ciento de los usuarios estaría dispuesto a pagar por este servicio.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Electronic prescribing is plagued by numerous interface problems and communications gaps between physician offices and pharmacies, according to a study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. Some of the deficiencies reflect underlying structural problems in the electronic prescribing software that many physicians use.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that physician practices and pharmacies are both keen on e-prescribing’s ability to improve safety and save time – but that both groups face barriers to realizing its full benefit.
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Grossman JM et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
A core feature of e-prescribing is the electronic exchange of prescription data between physician practices and pharmacies, which can potentially improve the efficiency of the prescribing process and reduce medication errors. Barriers to implementing this feature exist, but they are not well understood. This study’s objectives were to explore recent physician practice and pharmacy experiences with electronic transmission of new prescriptions and renewals, and identify facilitators of and barriers to effective electronic transmission and pharmacy e-prescription processing.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“I’m fascinated by the serial debate being conducted in the pages of Pharmacy News over the PCEHR. Sparked by a column by Pharmacy Guild national chairman, Kos Sclavos, and since drawing in AMA national president Dr Steve Hambleton, the topic seems to be “Who loves the PCEHR more: doctors or pharmacists?”
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Karen Fox, Anna Lyn Whitt, Leigh Ann Ross, and Lauren Bloodworth, Health Affairs Blog
“Nestled in the northwest corner of Mississippi, the 18-county region following the path of the Mississippi River known as the Delta is home to the crossroads, Blues music and fertile farmland. The Delta is also home to some of the nation’s worst health problems. The prevalence of diabetes there reaches 13 percent, and more than 70 percent of all adults are overweight or obese.
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David Harlow, KevinMD
“Walgreens is being sued by customers who are not happy that their prescription information – even though it has been de-identified – is being sold by Walgreens to data-mining companies.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“I was walking past a local Walgreens over the weekend, when the electronic sign in front of the store flashed a message about the drugstore chain’s iPad app. My friend asked me why anyone would need such an app.
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Zorgvisie
“Er zijn 3561 zorgaanbieders aangesloten op het landelijk EPD, dat is 57 procent van het totaal. Van de 1644 apothekers is 83 procent aangesloten. Van de 1789 huisartsenpraktijken is 44 procent aangesloten, van de 112 huisartsenposten 88 procent. Veel minder ziekenhuizen hebben aansluiting gezocht: 18 procent. Eerstelijnsaanbieders kregen subsidie als ze zich aanmeldden. Op dit moment zijn de medicatie- en waarneemgegevens van bijna 8,5 miljoen Nederlanders via het landelijk EPD opvraagbaar. Dit komt overeen met 11,7 miljoen dossiers.
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McSpadden C, Spiro S. The Consultant Pharmacist, 26(3)
Consultant and senior care pharmacists probably have already encountered some sort of health information technology (HIT) system in one or more of the facilities they service, whether it is an electronic medication administration record or some version of an electronic health record (EHR).
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“It sounds like Nurse Jackie’s worst nightmare: San Francisco’s UCSF Medical Centre patients have had one of the most significant risks to their well-being removed, now that a family of giant robots is dispensing their medication.
The robots, which tower over human beings, prepare oral and injectable medicines, including toxic chemotherapy drugs in a tightly secured, sterile environment. It’s also safer for pharmacy employees, and more productive: the automation frees UCSF pharmacists and nurses to focus more of their expertise on direct patient care.”
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Medical News Today
“The Pharmaceuctical Group of the European Union (PGEU) the association representing Community Pharmacists, calls for pharmacists to be granted access to electronic patient records in a statement on E Health released today.
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Wakefield DS et al, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 67(23)
Purpose
The implementation of a telepharmacy service to provide round-the-clock medication order review by pharmacists is described.
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Roberts LL et al, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 67(21)
Purpose
The impact of implementing commercially available health care information technologies at hospitals in a large health system on the identification of potential adverse drug events (ADEs) at the medication ordering stage was studied.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“An open-source EMR that was implemented in Belize by a Canadian team more than three years ago is showing results. “We put it in for a buck a citizen for the whole nation, and it runs all the clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and labs,” says Dr. Michael Graven (pictured), co-developer of the system and a neonatologist with the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
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Apiscam
“El director general de Farmacia y Productos Farmacéuticos de la Consejería de Sanidad de Comunidad Valenciana, José Clérigues, y la presidenta del Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Valencia, Mª Teresa Guardiola, han anunciado que las 10 farmacias de Xàtiva (Valencia) serán las próximas en incorporar la dispensación electrónica, para los 36.217 pacientes a los que atienden.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Although I have not posted about Pharmacists and the use of the Internet and I have not found many research on this topic, it’s clear that these health professionals are playing an important role in healthcare. Therefore, they also have a role in relationship with the Internet, specially Community Pharmacists, who are probably the most accessible health professional and are daily dealing with all kind of patients.
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