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Telemedicine - Telepharmacy
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Telepharmacy services can be delivered at
retail pharmacy sites or through hospitals,
nursing homes, or other medical care
facilities.
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Telepharmacy
Telepharmacy services can be
delivered at retail pharmacy sites or
through hospitals, nursing homes, or
other medical care facilities.
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Telepharmacy - Benefits and drawbacks
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Telepharmacy can potentially give
patients in remote locations access to
professional pharmacy care that
could not be received locally, which
can lower costs and improve patient
safety through better patient
counseling, drug administration
monitoring, and compliance
monitoring
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Telepharmacy - Benefits and drawbacks
The potential costs of telepharmacy are
broadly the same as those associated with all
forms of telemedicine: potentially decreased
human interaction between medical
professionals and patients, an increased risk
of error when medical services are delivered
in the absence of a registered professional,
and an increased risk that protected health
information may be compromised through
electronic information storage and
transmission.
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Telepharmacy - Implementation
The implementation of telepharmacy
varies by region and jurisdiction. Factors
including geography, laws and regulations,
and economics influence its
implementation.
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Telepharmacy - Australia
A form of telepharmacy has been in use by
Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service since 1942
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Telepharmacy - Australia
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Another application of telepharmacy in
Queensland has been the provision of
pharmaceutical reviews in rural
hospitals that lack on-staff pharmacists.
Although broader use of telepharmacy
could help alleviate a shortage of
pharmacists, Australia has lagged the
United States in its implementation of
telepharmacy, partly because doctors,
nurses, and other health care workers
provide pharmacy services in rural and
remote areas where there are no
pharmacists.
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Telepharmacy - United States
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In response to the need for alternative
means of delivering pharmacy in
services in rural communities lacking
a full-time pharmacist, several
Midwestern United
States|midwestern and northwestern
United States|northwestern states
with extensive rural areas have led
much of the development of policy
and implementation methods for
telepharmacy.
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Telepharmacy - United States
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A 2004 study of the program found that
telepharmacy delivered the same
quality of pharmacy services as
traditional facilities, and a study of the
operation of one North Dakota
telepharmacy business from 2002
through 2004 found that, while
medication inventory turnover was
lower than the industry average, the
remote sites were able to be operated
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Telepharmacy - United States
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The Community Health Association of
Spokane, a network of community
health centers in Spokane,
Washington, started a telepharmacy
program in 2001
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Telepharmacy - United States
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The American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists gave the program its 2006
Award for Excellence in Medication-Use
Safety, concluding that the use of
telepharmacy had improved access to
pharmaceutical care and enabled
pharmacists to monitor medication safety
and encourage medication adherence, as
well as making pharmacy care more costeffective.
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Telepharmacy - United States
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The United States Navy|U.S. Navy Bureau
of Medicine operates a large-scale
telepharmacy program for the use of
service personnel. After piloting the
program in 2006 at Naval Hospital
Pensacola in Florida and Naval Hospital
Bremerton in Washington, in 2010 the
Navy expanded it to more sites
throughout the world. This program
represents the largest implementation of
telepharmacy to date.
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Telepharmacy - United States
Iowa's first telepharmacy opened in
September 2012 after receiving a threeyear waiver from the Iowa Board of
Pharmacy that allows the facility to
operate without a pharmacist on-site.
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Telepharmacy - United States
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In 2010 the North Dakota Telepharmacy
Project estimated that the computer
hardware needed for a typical retail
installation costs US$17,300 per site,
with an additional cost of US$5,000 to
buy a mobile cart for a hospital
installation.
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Telepharmacy - Canada
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Thus telepharmacy support allows the onsite pharmacist to focus on the more
sensitive and nuanced tasks for which
physical presence is most helpful.
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Telerehabilitation - History
Angaran published “Telemedicine and
Telepharmacy: Current Status and Future
Implications” in the American Journal of
Health-System Pharmacy
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