Pharmacy

The partnership integrates a specialty care platform that combines electronic monitoring with health coaches to improve heart and vascular care. 

This comes as the second phase rollout of MediRecords' e-prescribing platform across the health service.

Recent attacks on healthcare provider business associates, including prescription and hosting platforms, expose more PII and PHI. Newly compromised email lists may be used for phishing attacks. 

The state has signed the Kentucky-based healthcare IT company, which now operates PDMPs in 44 states, to run a heavily-debated program expected to launch in spring 2023.

Also: partnership news from Uberdoc and Nest Collaborative and layoffs at Verily and Carbon Health.

Colleen Lindholz, who leads 22,000 care practitioners, has bold thoughts about pharmacy-specific tools incorporated into EHRs, population health platforms for care coordination, pharmacist burnout and more.

PharmStars' spring 2023 cohort will focus on women's health and health equity for underserved populations, says CEO Naomi Fried, who put forth a call for applications to digital health companies worldwide.

Ensuring medication history data, prescription fill insights and other information is scaled to specific populations can lead to better patient outcomes, says Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at health IT company DrFirst.

Technology, clinicians and pharmacies all have key roles to play in dealing with the social determinants of health, say Iris Frye and Nicholas Christiano Jr., co-chairs of Health Equity Policy Task Force under the HIMSS Public Policy Committee.