What You Should Know
The Crisis: A new Harris Poll/Surescripts survey reveals that 56% of U.S. patients face challenges filling prescriptions, with 25% abandoning medication entirely due to cost.The Gap: Despite high digital literacy, only…
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Almost 20 years ago I wrote an article titled “Develop Your Own EMR – Are You Crazy,” followed 7 years later by the article “Develop Your Own EMR – You’re Still Crazy.” The premise…
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Joel Diamond, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Aranscia
Pharmacogenomics, also referred to as PGx, is the use of a patient’s genetic makeup to guide safer, more effective medication choices and dosing in everyday…
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) implementation team (Credit: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust)
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with an electronic prescribing and medicines administration…
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GP practices across Kent and Medway are facing disruption following a major IT failure which led to online services being suspended.
The outage left clinicians and administration teams at the majority of surgeries unable to…
Early Warning System: How AI-Driven Near Miss Reporting Can Improve Patient SafetyBy Tim McDonald, MD, JD
Tim McDonald, MD, JD is chief patient safety and risk officer for RLDatix.
A nurse prepares to…
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What You Should Know
– The Utah Department of Commerce has officially authorized Doctronic to become the first AI system in the U.S. to legally participate in medical decision-making for prescription renewals.
– Operating under Utah’s…
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Kristen Hartsell, VP of Clinical Services, RedSail Technologies
In October, Rite Aid announced it would close all remaining stores, following a multi-year trend of major pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS eliminating thousands of locations.
When…
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Background: Medication nonadherence is a significant barrier to therapy success. Smartphone apps represent reasonable tools for simple adherence-enhancing interventions. Many adherence apps are available in app stores with diverse content, quality, and outputs. We…
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Lynne Nowak, MD notes, clinicians often don’t find out that a patient never picked up their prescription until much later. Better visibility into first-fill behavior helps close that dangerous gap.Learn how Susrescripts is closing…
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