Pharmacy

Women will be able to receive a prescription for Axena's Leva Pelvic Health System during an online consultation with an UpScriptHealth provider.

Sanofi, to name one example, uses DarioHealth's DTx to complement its drug offerings and gather a comprehensive picture of a patient's health. Felix Lee, the Sanofi's head of organizational capability and transformation, explains.

Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department is now providing online consultations to patients with diabetes.

Since its botched Microsoft security update this past week, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.

Graham Holland, deputy chief pharmacist at the Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses positive results from the hospital's digital transformation, including a 44% reduction in medication administration incidents.

CrowdSrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.

"By relying on the AI technology to convert information into discrete data elements in our Epic EHR, we have significantly reduced the amount of manual entry required by our staff," an inpatient pharmacy operations supervisor reports.

Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS, says the company's AI-powered clinical support platform offers alternate drugs to prescribe to avoid interaction risk, rather than simply alert doctors of possible medication errors.  

Continuous Precision Medicine's data helps providers make sure the appropriate amount of pain medication is administered to patients for pain management. Steven Walther, the company's CEO, explains more.  

One Boston hospital is using DrFirst's automated medication management product to streamline its prescription processes, says Dr. Colin Banas, the company's CMO. It also reduced medication safety events by 25% in six months.