Pharmacy

Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst, says mental health providers quickly adopted telehealth during the pandemic. Now he says he thinks AI agents can help understaffed offices with triage and prescription management.  

Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.

The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.

The government sees this approval as allowing pharmacies to replace their paper-based registers.

Also, DrFirst earns HITRUST for electronic prior authorization, e-prescribing, patient engagement and other healthcare tools.

First Databank's technology resides within electronic health records and can offer clinicians guidance on issues such as patient-specific dosing and possible drug interactions, explains Virginia Halsey, the company's SVP of strategy.

If the DEA's role is not properly limited, there could be an overreach where the agency influences or even dictates how healthcare practitioners make decisions, which could impact patient care, says Dan Cohen, president of RTM company Adhere+.

Three execs from the Georgia health system will present all the results and much more in a HIMSS25 session, revealing how a multidisciplinary team approach will help ensure success with the technology.

Without short-term change, execs believe tech doesn't live up to its billing and go back to business as usual – then, they wake up and the whole world is different and they have fallen behind, warns FDB president at HIMSS25.

The GAO questions simultaneous electronic health record improvements and new deployments, while the VA deputy secretary nominee speaks of urgency to complete the long-stalled project. The implementation team offers progress updates and automation plans.