The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the fifth in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.
With the public comment period now closed, the newly…
What You Should Know: – Parachute Health, a platform for DME (Durable Medical Equipment) and HME (Home Medical Equipment) ordering, has announced a groundbreaking partnership to revolutionize the DME ordering process. – The strategic…
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The Express has reported that last year 34,000 medication errors were made, with 21 incidents leading to patient death, and a further 27 leading to serious harm.It revealed that overall, 5,500 patients were damaged…
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What You Should Know:
– VieCure, a leading cancer care company, announced today that it’s integrating DrFirst’s e-prescribing and medication management solutions into its clinical decision support system.
– VieCure is a well-established point-of-care intelligence system…
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By Hannah Nelson
March 11, 2024 – The Surescripts 2023 National Progress Report underscores interoperability gains across the health information exchange (HIE) network, including a 10 percent increase in patient data sharing compared to 2022.
Overall, the…
Two bills in U.S. Congress this year are expected to boost e-prescriptions. This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts…
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It never ceases to amaze me how integral the role of the pharmacist could be to a patient and how many pharmacists are relegated to counting pills and checking insurance. I first experienced this…
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Another area where we haven't enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability. While almost every pharmacy out there now supports ePrescribing, the healthcare industry has fallen short when it comes to ensuring that…
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“About 50 percent of counties in the country have less than one primary care physician per 1, 500 population. And that’s just not enough. In about two-thirds of those, we’ve got enough pharmacies so…
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By Hannah Nelson
November 06, 2023 – Surescripts, a health information exchange (HIE) network, has acquired ActiveRADAR, a health IT vendor that identifies therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions.
Surescripts health information network connects more than two million healthcare…
