Pharmacy

There is a need to modernise and optimise end-to-end prescription medication delivery while also harmonising pharmacy processes across the region.

 The initiative is designed to lower prescription medication costs by roughly $500 million annually once the model is fully implemented.

There are problems prescribers face with drug-related clinical decision support alerts – but IT can help, and maybe AI, too. Anna Dover, director of product management at FDB, formerly First Databank, provides some answers.

The partners are releasing a mobile app containing a digital version of the Lippincott Nursing Drug Handbook, complete with FDA updates.

This is Modeus' second state hospital contract in Australia. 

There are 13 startups from PharmaStars' cohort on digital innovation for women's health and health equity, and the accelerators' next cohort, Digital Innovations in Therapeutic Delivery. Naomi Fried, CEO and founder of PharmStars, offers a deep dive.

The CVS Health company's members will have access to GoodRx's generic drug prices through the new program, Caremark Cost Saver.

The Big Box retailer announced that by the end of this year it will add 10 more HIV-focused specialty pharmacies, bringing the total to 80 in-store locations across 11 states.

The company is bringing medication price transparency to the provider at the point of care, says its CMIO, Dr. Andrew Mellin, who explains how that can offer patients big savings on their prescriptions.

The Florida health system has converted more than 7.3 million medication instructions without clinician intervention. The prescribing technology was able to infer missing instructions for subsets and identify high-risk medications, improving patient safety.