Pharmacy

It is planned to be deployed at community centres and nursing posts.

This also allows patients to check medicines that have been prescribed to them in the past.

The revised telehealth rules will take effect in September.

DrFirst has developed an AI-powered tool to streamline medication refill and renewal requests, meant to boost patient safety by flagging transcription mistakes. Dr. Colin Banas, the company's chief medical officer, explains.

In two years following 100 new-start opioid use disorder patients, Bill Farr says 94% remained in the medication-assisted treatment program – attrition rates had previously hovered around 54%.

New research by Wolters Kluwer shows that trust in non-traditional primary care settings continues to grow – and with rising drug costs, primary care decentralization is likely to continue. 

The national pharmacy network, which serves long-term care, senior living and behavioral health organizations, notified patients and families that an unknown third party accessed PHI and PII in March.

Healthcare is moving quickly to convenient locations like pharmacies, says a pharmacy IT expert.

As the host, it will ensure e-prescriptions come at no transaction cost.

The agency says it is reviewing a deluge of comments on its February proposed rulemaking ending telehealth prescriptions for certain controlled substances. It's unclear how far this new extension will last beyond the end of the PHE.