Pharmacy

Heart to Heart Hospice has achieved three of its top priorities, including reducing documentation time by almost 30 minutes and improving care planning – which speaks to the operational and compliance impact the technology has delivered.

Frederick Health’s precision medicine program integrates patients' genetic data into clinical workflows to support tailored decision-making. Jackie Rice, the hospital's chief information officer, describes the benefits.

New NIH office will promote human-based research and scale the use of non-animal approaches to biomedical research.

A predictive analytics tool at Piedmont Healthcare helps identify and engage with patients at risk for medication non-adherence. Melissa Robinson, the health system's population health pharmacy program manager, explains.

Surescripts becomes a QHIN while Redox joins CommonWell. Also, the Sequoia Project releases a payer-to-payer FHIR API Compliance Readiness Checklist 20 months ahead of a key CMS data exchange compliance deadline.

Pharmacy order processing was brought down to under five minutes.

Also, the Australian government awarded $4 million in funding to a project building the country's first registry of atrial fibrillation ablations.

Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst, says mental health providers quickly adopted telehealth during the pandemic. Now he says he thinks AI agents can help understaffed offices with triage and prescription management.  

Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.

The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.