In today’s tough healthcare economy, many healthcare executives unfortunately view rural hospitals as obsolete because of the costs associated with remaining viable in the challenging healthcare environment. However, one in six Americans currently lives in a rural county, showing that these facilities are essential in
Telepharmacies are providing new uses, and benefits, for health systems. In rural communities across the country, it’s often more difficult to find a pharmacist than it is to find a doctor. Now healthcare providers are using telemedicine platforms to create telepharmacy networks and bring the pharmacist into
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, needed to optimize its pharmacy workflow with the goal of improving patient care. It turned to PipelineRx for its cloud-based HIPAA–compliant telepharmacy platform, which would enable them to share pharmacy labor and pharmacy resources across their organization. After
IntrepidNOW interviews PipelineRx CEO, Brian Roberts, on the evolution of telepharmacy and telemedicine, and how telepharmacy was initially modeled out of teleradiology models and now is integral in a hospital’s strategy to optimize pharmacy staffing, both reducing costs and improving patient care. Accessibility to specialists
CGH Medical Center, a 100-bed, rural hospital in Illinois, faced a serious decision upon implementing computer prescriber order entry (CPOE), which requires a pharmacist to verify all orders, 24/7. They carefully reviewed all potential solutions and possible partners in regards to telepharmacy. And so the
As computer physician order entry (CPOE) continues to gain momentum, recent studies show many benefits associated with a successful CPOE system, including reductions in length of stay. Some hospitals, such as Crawford County Memorial, have identified that by contracting with a telepharmacy systems provider such
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) has established telepharmacy across a network of 48 hospitals throughout the country, and has been recognized as one of the largest telepharmacy providers in the US. From cost savings and increased ability for on-site pharmacists to participate in clinical activities on
