telepharmacy
Davies J. The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 2(7)
As our population ages and people are using more medicines, the workload in pharmacy is steadily increasing. More than 886 million prescription items were dispensed in primary care last year in England alone. Our profession is looking for new ways to efficiently and safely dispense prescriptions and provide extended healthcare services for patients against a background of resource limitations.
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8 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): telepharmacy
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The implementation of a telepharmacy model in a multi-hospital health system increased access to pharmacy services, allowing for round-the-clock medication order review by pharmacists, which is critical to reducing errors, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
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8 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Medication Errors, telepharmacy
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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8 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): CPOE, Hospitals, Medication Errors, pharmacist, telepharmacy
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The economic and financial crunch has led to the upheaval of many industries. Medical research has also been affected due to funding pressure increasing more than ever. However, future health challenges can only be met by consistently undertaking research and development in the medical realm, both technical and administrative.
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2 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Information Technology, Research, telepharmacy
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to curb this gap.
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23 November 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Developing Countries, Innovation, Telemedicine, telepharmacy, Underserved
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Medicinal technologies have a big hand in the treatment and recovery of a patient. From immediate pain relief to long term cure, medicines can help an individual achieve sound health. As much as it is important to undertake medicinal research, it is also important to develop appropriate safety systems.
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3 November 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Medication, RFID, Safety, Telemedicine, telepharmacy
Ivanitskaya L et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Websites of many rogue sellers of medications are accessible through links in email spam messages or via web search engines. This study examined how well students enrolled in a U.S. higher education institution could identify clearly unsafe pharmacies.
Objective:
The aim is to estimate these health consumers´ vulnerability to fraud by illegitimate Internet pharmacies.
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14 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Drugs, health-literacy, Internet, telepharmacy
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“The U.S. Navy is in the midst of what’s billed as the largest telepharmacy implementation in history to help ease a shortage of pharmacists throughout the service.
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19 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Telemedicine, telepharmacy
The Medical Quack
“The machines have already been in use in Toronto, Canada for a few months, the green machines.
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16 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, UK, United States | Tag(s): e-prescribing, Kiosk, telepharmacy
“As recently as three years ago, many elderly residents in this part of southeastern North Dakota were forced to order their medications by mail.
These days, customers have a real drugstore and can talk to a real person about their health needs — albeit via the Internet.
Thanks to the virtual pharmacy system that has been tested on the frozen prairie, the days of walking down to the general store for prescription drugs are returning to rural America.”
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Dave Kolpack, USA Today, 12 September 2008
12 September 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Rural, telepharmacy
“The days of walking down to the general store for prescription drugs are returning to rural America, thanks to a virtual pharmacy system that has been tested on the frozen prairie.
As recently as three years ago, many elderly residents in this area of southeastern North Dakota were forced to order their medications by mail. Now, customers have a real drug store and can talk to a real person who’s connected to a pharmacist by the Internet.”
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Dave Kolpack, Houston Chronicle, 6 September 2008
9 September 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Internet, Rural, telepharmacy
