Being human involves acknowledging our fallibility – we make mistakes. Yet, when the same kind of mistakes occur regularly, chalking them up to just unpreventable errors without understanding the cause, aligns nicely to Einstein’s purported definition of insanity. And that’s what we are doing when it comes to the current process of medications and prescriptions. …
Every day, clinics and patients get frustrated at the administration time they spend in managing their prescriptions. From recalling prescriptions, issuing new prescriptions, dealing with closed pharmacies or stock issues, reconciling medicines, or getting angry at pharmacies for changes in prices and prescriptions access, managing medicines is confusing, disempowering, cumbersome and outdated. This all stems …
Rethinking prescriptions… Is there a better way? Read More »
Medicare for all? Socialist healthcare? Pay for outcomes? Value based care? We are awash with slogans, inundated with fear based campaigns, and are being warned that healthcare is changing – fast – and we need to react quickly. But where do we start? As an industry (and as ageing patients), we are legitimately frightened that …
Even though I am a physician, my wife prefers to pay to receive her prescriptions from a “real” doctor. Recently, at a real doctor’s appointment, my wife received three prescriptions – an antibiotic for our then snotty child (something I wouldn’t have prescribed) which required an immediate purchase, a new chronic medication refill (she only …
Amazon Pharmacy and ScalaMed: The future of prescriptions Read More »
A revolution is coming. Truth be told, it’s already here. Blockchain technology has the capacity to revolutionize medical database capability—if we choose to embrace it. Originally developed to provide a distributed ledger of financial transactions that didn’t rely on a central financial institution, the system has the potential to dramatically better patient outcomes by improving …
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