- Community hospitals replacing EHRs (healthcareitnews.com)
More than half unhappy with usability…nearly 20 percent of community hospitals polled for a recent report are "actively looking to replace" their electronic health record vendors…Smaller hospitals are being tasked with more physician documentation for MU, and the extra time required, disrupted workflows and frustrating EHR functionality means many providers' patience is wearing thin…
- Patients Strongly Oppose Prescription-Only Pseudoephedrine (pharmacytimes.com)
..vast majority of patients wants continued access to OTC medications containing pseudoephedrine and opposes making the drugs prescription-only…This conclusion comes from an Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America survey of more than 2000 adults … who experienced cold, cough, flu, asthma, or allergies…71% of patients unfavorably view pharmacies and grocery stores that remove OTC medications containing PSE from their shelves..
- GPS for the body? Nevada doctors use tech to pinpoint problems (reviewjournal.com)
University Medical Center(Las Vegas),...doctors can reach deep into the lungs to diagnose cancer — without using a scalpel… hospital's superDimension ™ Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy ™ system extends the bronchoscope's reach into smaller airways. Catheters can be accurately placed into lesions outside the tube's field of view… Pulmonologists such as Dr. Hidenobu Shigemitsu can stage suspicious areas for biopsy and treat cancers found in the lungs…Lung GPS™Technology minimizes invasiveness and results in early detection of cancers.
- Making IT services for medicine regulation in Europe more efficient (ema.europa.eu)
European Medicines Agency Management Board endorsed the European Union Telematics Strategy and Implementation Roadmap 2015-2017 …provides a concrete outline of the EU Telematics strategy and its implementation … cover areas such as governance structure implementation, clinical trials regulation, management and processing of electronic submissions for marketing-authorisation applications …safety information on human and veterinary medicinal products, data integration and pharmacovigilance…
- UNLV grads assist in artificial pancreas research (reviewjournal.com)
…far from building an artificial organ, a breakthrough system being developed with the help of two alums from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is bringing the diabetic community closer to one than ever before…Tomas Walker and Aimee Jose, who graduated…from...nursing school, are each playing a role in the creation of a so-called artificial pancreas system,..works like this: Three separate components with tiny needles are attached to the wearer's abdomen. The first two are pumps — one is filled with the insulin hormone, and the second is filled with another hormone called glucagon…third is a continuous glucose monitor,.. it tells the pumps how frequently they should secrete hormones into the body to regulate blood sugar levels.
- Health system cleared in data breach lawsuit (healthcareitnews.com)
An appellate court has cleared Advocate Medical Group of wrongdoing in a class action lawsuit alleging the organization failed to protect patient data following a massive HIPAA data breach… The fact that two plaintiffs to date (out of those four million) have received notification of fraudulent activity, i.e., have suffered actual injury arising…does not show that plaintiffs here face imminent,..impending, or a substantial risk of harm..
- Top 4 technologies for community pharmacists to watch (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
future of community pharmacy is a high-tech, connected world, where teleprescribing is common and pharmacists share information with patients via smart lenses. At least that is the vision of Dan Benamoz, RPh,..Pharmacy Development Services, a pharmacist training, consulting, and mentoring firm.
- Information sharing via "smart" lens
- Telepharmacy
- Pharmacogenomics
- Radio frequency technology
- Purdue Pharma unveils opioid abuse prevention website (drugstorenews.com)Team Against Opioid Abuse (teamagainstopioidabuse.com)
Purdue Pharma is launching a new effort to prevent opioid abuse…announced its new Team Against Opioid Abuse website that’s meant to instruct people about how to reduce opioid abuse and misuse and inform about abuse-deterrent technologies….importance of preventing abuse of prescription drugs and outlines FDA guidelines on abuse-deterrent labeling…includes information on how to identify opioid formulations with abuse-deterrent properties for healthcare professionals…
- Largest Portion of Pharmacy Expenditures Stem from Pediatric Hemophilia Treatment (pharmacytimes.com)
Hemophilia therapies account for 41% of outpatient pharmacy expenditures among publicly insured children with serious chronic illness… records showed that outpatient pharmacy expenditures totaled more than $475 million, or 20% of total health care expenditures…
- Are you paying more for your Rx meds? (consumerreports.org)
Consumer Reports’ poll shows one-third of Americans hit by high drug prices…Not all surprises are good, especially when that surprise means you pay more for a prescription drug you take all the time. Yet in the last 12 months, that’s exactly what happened...People said they paid an average of $39 above the usual cost for their prescription—and one in 10 said they paid a whopping $100 or more out-of-pocket..