Pharmacy Technology

HealthMine: Two-in-five tech-savvy patients have not heard of telemedicine
DALLAS - A HealthMine survey of 500 insured consumers who use mobile/internet-connected health applications released Sunday found that 39% still have not heard of telemedicine. What's more, only one third of respondents say their health plan offers telehealth as an option.

However, 93% of those who have used telemedicine say it has lowered their healthcare costs.
Special DSN report examines pharmacy’s ‘impact’
Drug Store News in March published the fifth edition of RxImpact, a special supplement to DSN, produced in support of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ RxImpact Day on Capitol Hill. The special Rx-Impact report — inserted in headquarter copies of this issue of DSN and delivered to all current members of the U.S.

Innovation, BU WISE publish paper on Rx operations optimization

JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — Pharmacy intelligence and automation company Innovation announced Wednesday that a collaborative thesis paper by its Advanced Systems division and Binghamton University’s Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (BU WISE) had been published in Expert Systems With Applications, a leading journal on artificial intelligence.
Report: Rural Iowa could be incubator for telepharmacy
Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare rolls out new patient monitors

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare is introducing some new products designed to alleviate some of seniors' greatest worries.

The company is rolling out two new monitoring alarms and several pads both with corded and wireless connectivity:

PrimeGuard Fall Monitor, Cordless
PillDrill named 'Best New Product' at ECRM’s Home Health Care EPPS event

From left: DSN area manager Alex Tomas, Jacob Guernsey, creative director, PillDrill; Peter Havas, CEO, PillDrill; Dennis Gurka, director sales, PillDrill; Michael Castillo, SVP pharmacy/medical markets, ECRM

DALLAS — PillDrill won this year’s Drug Store News/ECRM Most Innovative Product Award for the Home Health Care category at ECRM’s Home Health Care EPPS event, held here Feb. 21 to 24.
FlavoRx unveils new FlavorMaster

COLUMBIA, Md. — FlavoRx debuted its newest piece of pharmacy equipment — the FlavorMaster — on Friday. Maryland’s commerce secretary Mike Gill, alongside members of Maryland’s Department of Commerce’s Office of Biohealth Technology, attended the unveiling of the reconstituting and flavoring device.
APhA releases 2016 edition of the APhA Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Digest

WASHINGTON – The American Pharmacists Association on Friday released the 2016 edition of the APhA Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Digest. The publication shows the continued growth of pharmacists’ patient care services and highlights the expanded roles pharmacists have in the health care system.
Innovation, Binghamton’s WISE to cohost Rx operations symposium

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Innovation, along with Binghamton University’s Watson Institute of Systems Excellence (WISE, will be holding a two-day pharmacy operations symposium in April to explore ways that pharmacies can adapt to change and improve their operations.
CMS plan to boost MTM gains traction in Congress

“Better care, smarter spending, healthier people.”

HealthMine: Two-in-five tech-savvy patients have not heard of telemedicine

Special DSN report examines pharmacy’s ‘impact’

Innovation, BU WISE publish paper on Rx operations optimization

Report: Rural Iowa could be incubator for telepharmacy

Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare rolls out new patient monitors

PillDrill named 'Best New Product' at ECRM’s Home Health Care EPPS event

FlavoRx unveils new FlavorMaster

APhA releases 2016 edition of the APhA Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Digest

Innovation, Binghamton’s WISE to cohost Rx operations symposium

CMS plan to boost MTM gains traction in Congress