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News | February 17, 2017
Pharmacy Practice News – “New Tech on Tap at ASHP Midyear Meeting
Highlighting new technology and solutions coming out of the ASHP 2016 Midyear, Pharmacy Practice News recognized our new clinical services, including Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Medication Reconciliation. PipelineRx Clinical Services help you meet CMS and other mandates, as well as your own organization’s financial and
News | December 08, 2016
Healthcare Finance – “McKesson identifies five health system pharmacy trends to watch in 2017”
McKesson sees the centralizing of pharmacy operations as something to watch in 2017. Sometimes referred to as clinical telepharmacy, the centralization of pharmacy operations is designed to help large health systems utilize a centralized hub to manage costs, improve order entry and verification, and standardize
News | December 08, 2016
Telemedicine Magazine – “Telepharmacy Takes CPOE To the Next Level”
While CPOE has been shown to reduce medication errors, a recent report by Castlight Health and the hospital rating organization Leapfrog Group, showed that CPOE systems failed to flag 13% of potentially fatal medication errors. In this increasing digital healthcare eco-system, some hospitals have chosen to
News | November 04, 2016
Healthcare Purchasing News – “Superbugs colonize and cooperate. To defeat them, we must do the same.”
The ECRI Institute put inadequate antimicrobial stewardship on its 2016 list of top patient safety risks. PipelineRx's Kevin Jones, Vice President of Pharmacy Services, and Hong Lam, Director of Quality and Clinical Services, comment on what it takes to create and maintain an Antibiotic Stewardship Program
News | November 03, 2016
Healthcare Informatics – “Telepharmacy Technology is Advancing Pharmacy Practice”
Many hospitals are deploying telepharmacy services to support their CPOE technology and are finding that the combination of telepharmacy and CPOE tools has enhanced provider workflows, medication safety, patient safety and even the financial bottom line. This article shares success stories from Crawford Memorial Hospital, a
News | October 31, 2016
Becker’s Hospital Review – “Why the C-Suite should take notice of their pharmacy”
October marked National Pharmacists' Month, which makes it an ideal time to examine the unique opportunity pharmacy presents for today's healthcare ecosystem. Particularly in hospitals and hospital networks, the pharmacist is becoming a more strategic clinical provider, positively influencing patient outcomes and the hospital's bottom
News | July 26, 2016
Managed Healthcare Executive – “Telepharmacy enables 24/7 dispensing”
This article (located on the lower portion of the page) reveals how Rome Memorial Hospital, a 130-bed hospital located in Rome, New York turned to a technology-based solution to help with overnight pharmacy coverage. “It just didn’t make sense to spend $400,000 hiring additional pharmacists, especially
News | June 27, 2016
TechCrunch – “Playing catch-up in hospital innovation”
In this guest post, Mandira Singh, regular contributor on TechCrunch and head of Athenahealth’s More Disruption Please program, discusses the latest hospital innovation. Most notably, she cites PipelineRx for its ability to help fill the Pharmacy servicing gap. This is particularly important for rural hospitals that may lack enough local
News | June 21, 2016
Pharmacy Practice News – “More and More Pharmacists Are Virtual”
In this article, read about two health systems — Catholic Health Initiatives and Dartmouth-Hitchcock — that offer telepharmacy to both their own hospitals and to outside facilities. Another benefit to the technology they have learned is that it not only frees up staff pharmacists to perform other duties, but it also can become a revenue generator for the health system.