The Trending Pharmacies In today’s pharmacies there are a lot of trends that are happening. With it being such a fast paced field, it is continuously growing. One new trend that is happening is the tele-pharmacy. The tele-pharmacy is a new concept that has come out in the past couple of years. Basically, low populated areas were not able to sustain a pharmacy. It is a potential way to bring pharmacies back to areas that are decreased in population by lowering the cost of running an actual pharmacy. One problem with having a tele-pharmacy is the fact that it will be higher in cost. It cost money to have technicians work and plus other overhead, but it cost more to do a tele-pharmacy with software and networks. The tele-pharmacy only eliminates …show more content…
They have a pharmacist that works there also, but he is there only to verify all the medications that are processed through the center each day. There are normally no patient calls to this center, because the calls are normally routed to a pharmacist-staffed call center. It provides a small amount of service that is an advantage to certain people, but not others. Mail orders can’t provide acute care, so this causes problems when the patient comes in with a new prescription and the pharmacist does not know the patient’s condition. Also, mail orders have a risk of significant drug …show more content…
The only thing about this system is that the patient would have to be ok without the medication until the next day. With the system heavily leveraging on automation, it does not require a lot of technicians or pharmacist. Further leveraging could be done with medication synchronization programs to make efficiencies better. Also, with this system the pharmacist can be free to help the patients at the counter when they pick up their medications. It will create an office like based pharmacy practice. If there was a high percent of patients that were synchronized and were picking up medication at the same time; the pharmacist would be able to sit down with them one by one to do medication monitoring. Although it has its perks, central filling can turn for the worse when it comes to work flow. It has the possibility to turn the environment into a mail order environment and possibly get rid of access from the patient to the pharmacist. All these trends can be fine and wonderful, but they have the potential to become scary and dangerous. It can diminish the value of the pharmacist or the technicians that work in the pharmacy. It has the potential to get rid of the pharmacist altogether. With the system doing that a lot of possible drug errors can happen, due to no one being there to check if the correct information is being put in
It’s not simply the particular giving of the medications that fare up all the time. It is checking the medical record with the hand written prescriptions, grouping the varied medications and also the instrumentation for giving them, and ensuring all the patients safety measure are covered.
A growing demand has emerged in the healthcare field for well-trained pharmacy technicians to assist the pharmacist in many practice settings by assuming greater responsibilities. These may include order entry, filing prescription orders, compounding sterile preparations, cart fill exchanges, inventory control, operation of automated technology, utilizing the computer system as well as fulfilling other patient specific duties. Well-trained pharmacy technicians in retail and institutional settings are a vital part of the healthcare team.
When doctors prescribe medication for their patients, a local retail pharmacy is most likely to be utilized to fill the order. However, there is a growing population of older Americans that are no longer able to live independently and must reside in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. In order for this vulnerable population to receive their medications, a different kind of pharmacy is needed, these are known as LTC, long term care pharmacies. Within these specialized pharmacies there are highly trained employees called CPhTs, certified pharmacy technicians who are overseen by state licensed
The Web Portal could also be expanded to provide outside vendor services such as, Just in Time pharmaceutical replenishment and inventory updates. Just in Time pharmaceutical replenishment will allow the hospital to automatically replenish stock and optimize inventory. The hospital will have to grant access to its database to companies similar to Just in Time, but the rewards for the hospital will be phenomenal. The hospital can cross references the prescription company’s database to ensure that no other medication the patient is taking will have complications for the patients or adverse effects. The system could also recommend alternatives to the prescribe medications to even further
The contribution of pharmacists in a clinical setting and community pharmacy is significant that the workforce benefit from. When the workforce understands their medications and complies with the prescribed treatment plans the work center becomes healthy and the potential of increased productivity becomes a realistic and profitable proposition for the organization. When the workforce takes advantage of the healthcare services the pharmacists provide in a community and clinical pharmacies productivity and profit are at high potential reality.
Health information technology or HIT is a huge part of the dashing changes in how medications are prescribed, dispensed, and administered by using technologies electronic devices to share and manage patient information, instead of doing it the old fashion way which was over the phone, having all patients’ records and files on paper, and using the old fax method. Everything is computerized, from managing the
Currently, more responsibilities are being given to the pharmacy technician that were traditionally performed by pharmacists, such as clarifying prescriptions and entering orders. With these additional responsibilities for the pharmacy technician, this will allow the pharmacist to spend additional time with patients. However, with these additional responsibilities enables more opportunities for error. In 2008, a study was performed at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a 178 bed acute care facility
Encourage the use of computer-generated or electronic medication administration records. Plan for the implementation of computerized prescriber order entry systems. Consider the use of machine-readable code (i.e., bar coding) in the medication administration process. Use computerized drug profiling in the pharmacy. Be a demanding customer of pharmacy system software; encourage vendors to incorporate and assist in implementing an adequate standardized set of checks into computerized hospital pharmacy systems (e.g., screening for duplicate drug therapies, patient allergies, potential drug interactions, drug/lab interactions, dose ranges, etc.)”. (Association,
In the video Escape Fire, I was so flabbergasted by the numbers and health outcomes we as a society have let our nation become. One of the most heart-wrenching evidence is, even though our health care industry is so expensive our health outcomes are the worse. 75% of disabilities and dead’s are preventable, according to the film.
One of many administration burdens to physicians and medical office staff is the nees to respond to prescription refill requests. E-Prescribing gives providers acess to review, authorize and transmit several refill authorizations in a matter of seconds. In case of emergency a refill can be quickly done to aid a patient that is traveling and out of
Pharmacist have a unique opportunity to spearhead improvements in overall quality of care and to create a better coordinated healthcare system. These healthcare practitioners play a role in managing and modifying medication therapies, typically, in some form of collaboration with the prescribing physician (Guglielmo, 2012). Pharmacist can be a part of medical home teams and can help improve the health of high-risk patients and patients with chronic conditions in primary settings. Pharmacist can serve as medication-use system experts, meet pay-for performance measures, and prevent hospital readmissions (Carrion & Martin, 2015).
Electronic-prescribing, often referred to as e-prescribing, is a fairly new, innovative way for physicians and other medical personnel to prescribe medications and keep track of patients’ medical history. Not only has e-prescribing enabled prescribers to electronically send a prescription to the patients’ pharmacy of choice, in the short amount of time it has been available, it has significantly reduced health care costs, not only for the patient, but for the medical facilities as well. In 2003, e-prescribing was included in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) which jumpstarted the role of e-prescribing in healthcare. It has proven to significantly reduce the yearly number medication errors and prescription fraud, and its widespread
Set-up and workflow of my pharmacy is pretty good for patient centered care. Patient does not have to wait too long for their prescriptions to be filled. Patients can call for their refills via telephone or online, which makes their life easy as they don’t have bother coming in-person for refills. Patient profile shows all medication history as well as number of refills remaining. This makes it easy for pharmacist to know whether to refill a prescription or call doctor for refill request. After confirming to fill a prescription pharmacist runs claim through insurance and print label after claim is successful. All medication is arranged alphabetically on shelves, thus it is easy and quick to retrieve. Then after technician fills medication and then pharmacist checks it. This workflow is quite smooth and quick to process. Final check is done by pharmacist, who confirms right medication for right patient as well as the NDC dispensed, amount dispensed, direction for use, and day supply. All these steps of process take place on working table in sequential order, which helps to reduce errors in filling and have effective prescription filling. Once the prescription is filled pharmacist do all paper
The data entry stage has two major problems. The first problem is drug utilization review (DUR). As showed by PSI team for the pharmacy fulfillment process, DURs arise frequently and pharmacists must waste time to intervene. CVS’s central database of customer fails to update and understand customers’ newest condition, so that the issue of DUR triggers customer’s dissatisfaction and wastes a lot of time for pharmacists. The second problem in the data entry stage is no refill allowance. Many customers may lose track of how many refills that were allowed and drop off an ineligible script
Yes, there is an impact on the pharmaceutical company, like those in the US as a result of differential prices between that country and other nations.