- How Technology and Legislative Issues Could Affect Pharmacy (pharmacytimes.com)
Pat Basu, MD, MBA, chief medical officer of Doctor on Demand, discusses legislative issues and technology that could affect pharmacy.
- Sim Lab Gives Pharmacy Students Hands-On Experience (pharmacytimes.com)
Third-year pharmacy students at the Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy will soon attend sessions at The Medicines Company’s patient simulation lab…students will be exposed to simulated hospital experiences in cardiac catheterization units and operating rooms using high-tech mannequins…also gives students a chance to see real-time blood pressure readings and simulated patients’ adverse effects from medication.
- NACDS TSE (National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Total Store Expose): Hot Rx technology (drugstorenews.com)
- Samsung LabGeo PT10 - private patient kiosks...with a new point-of-care lab technology
- Higi Kiosks - cloud-based interactive..for health-and-wellness tracking, data sharing..patient education
- RxASP 1000 - prescription packaging system… accommodate up to 1,000 RFID canisters
- CoBot - new robotic technology…PharmASSIST CoBot…ease workflow and perform "mindless repetitive tasks"
- Surescripts optimizes tech, expands applications - new capabilities is an electronic prior-authorization feature that allows prescribing physicians to check any patient’s insurance eligibility for any prescription automatically, at the touch of a screen, before sending that prescription to Surescripts’ routing network
- Overlake CEO: Retail health clinics bring about a paradigm shift for hospitals (bizjournals.com)
..more and more, health care providers are teaming up with drugstores to provide care via in-store health clinics…trend based around convenience..shifts to focus more ..on the consumer, adapting means providing more services,..same-day access to a doctor, allowing people to interact with the health care system easily, and providing transparency...about the costs of procedures and quality of care.
- Will Salesforce Health Cloud crush the electronic medical record? (medcitynews.com)
Salesforce is taking its biggest stab yet at conquering healthcare. The $5 billion cloud computing behemoth…unveiled Salesforce Health Cloud. Salesforce, best known for its customer relationship management platform, considers Health Cloud a patient relationship management product…moon-shot goal is to leapfrog electronic medical records as the central patient record. It promises to cull data from as many sources as possible, safely manage that information, let patients easily access these records and display the information in a dashboard to help healthcare providers and payers better manage – and in some cases, predict – care.
- Eko Core, stethoscope that streams to smartphones, cleared by FDA (healthcarefinancenews.com)
'We've started by pairing the oldest and the newest tools in the medical toolkit – the stethoscope and the smartphone.'…The FDA has cleared Eko Core, a digital stethoscope designed by medical devices startup Eko Devices..."a next-generation" stethoscope – billed as the only one on the market to wirelessly stream heart sounds to a HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. It is also the first to integrate heart sounds directly into the patient's EHR.
- CVS Health expands its care reach (healthcareitnews.com)
ACA (Affordable Care Act), primary care doc shortage, aging population, chronic disease make this telehealth's moment..CVS is working with three telehealth companies -- American Well, Doctor On Demand and Teladoc -- on how, together with pharmacies, they might expand and improve on...patient care.
- Novartis to start human tests with Google lens in 2016 (reuters.com)
Novartis plans the first human tests next year of a "smart" contact lens it is developing with Google designed to help restore the eye's natural autofocus….it would take about five years to see a product on the market,…we are already developing a technological lens prototype (that) should be tested on humans in 2016…for accommodative vision correction in people with presbyopia, or age-related long sightedness, who can no longer read without glasses… Novartis is also developing smart contact lenses to help diabetics track their blood glucose levels.
- US researchers say 3-D printed microscopic fish robots will allow intelligent (in-pharmatechnologist.com)
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used 3-D printing to build fish-shaped microrobots. The so-called microfish can swim in liquids, are chemically powered by hydrogen peroxide and are magnetically controlled. The scientists said the synthetic microfish will inspire a new generation of ‘smart’ microrobots capable of detoxification, sensing their environment, and directing drug delivery.
- Could cameras in operating rooms reduce preventable medical deaths? (washingtonpost.com)
Chris Nowakoski’s wife died..during what should have been a routine procedure...Danny Long’s wife..suffered catastrophic neurological injury during a surgery to relieve numbness in her extremities..families still don’t know the full story of what happened to their loved ones because of a lack of documentation and an inability to pursue a costly lawsuit...an estimated 400,000 a year people…die in the United States of preventable medical errors,..the families say they could have known much more if cameras had been installed in the operating rooms, recording the actions and movements of the doctors and staffers involved.