Telepharmacy: Time to pick up the line

Win, Aung Zaw

doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.06.002

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“…Telepharmacy on the other hand saves travel time and expense, which are major barriers for rural elderly and disabled veterans. 24 A telepharmacy program focusing on medication therapy management services in 96 elderly patients in Connecticut, USA, succeeded in saving ØS$300,000. 25 Healthcare providers receive telepharmacy as an ideal alternative to treatment delays when pharmacists are not present on site.…”

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Telepharmacy: a pharmacist’s perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges

Poudel¹,

Nissen²

2016

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107

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The use of information and telecommunication technologies has expanded at a rapid rate, which has a strong influence on healthcare delivery in many countries. Rural residents and communities, however, often lack easy access to healthcare services due to geographical and demographical factors. Telepharmacy, a more recent concept that refers to pharmaceutical service provision, enables healthcare services, such as medication review, patients counseling, and prescription verification, by a qualified pharmacist for the patients located at a distance from a remotely located hospital, pharmacy, or healthcare center. Telepharmacy has many recognizable benefits such as the easy access to healthcare services in remote and rural locations, economic benefits, patient satisfaction as a result of medication access and information in rural areas, effective patient counseling, and minimal scarcity of local pharmacist and pharmacy services. Telepharmacy undoubtedly is a great concept, but it is sometimes challenging to put into practice. Inherent to the adoption of these practices are legal challenges and pitfalls that need to be addressed. The start-up of telepharmacy (hardware, software, connectivity, and operational cost) involves considerable time, effort, and money. For rural hospitals with fewer patients, the issue of costs appears to be one of the biggest barriers to telepharmacy services. Moreover, execution and implementation of comprehensive and uniform telepharmacy law is still a challenge. A well-developed system, however, can change the practice of pharmacy that is beneficial to both the rural communities and the hospitals or retail pharmacies that deliver these services.

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Telepharmacy: a pharmacist’s perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges

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Nissen²

2016

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“…3,4 This way, telepharmacy provides patients with their medications and other pharmaceutical care services where the pharmacists are not physically presented. 3,4 Essentially, telepharmacy harnesses technology to provide services such as prescription review, medication dispensing and compounding, drug therapy monitoring and counselling. [4][5][6] Growing evidence suggests potential clinical benefits provided by telepharmacy and the implementation of such technology, 7 which may reduce shortage and inequalities in healthcare services provision and delivery for patients living in the rural communities or in areas where it is difficult to access healthcare or pharmaceutical services for any reason.…”

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Pharmacists’ experience, competence and perception of telepharmacy technology in response to COVID‐19

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Background: In the telepharmacy model, the pharmacist can play a pivotal role in delivering pharmaceutical services for patients. However, evidence of pharmacists' impact on improving patient outcomes through disease outbreak through telepharmacy is sparse.Objectives: This study aims to examine pharmacists' attitudes towards clinical benefits and identify challenges regarding the use of telepharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan. Method:A cross-sectional survey design was used to recruit eligible participants from both hospital and community pharmacies.Results: A total of 364 pharmacists agreed to participate in the study. The majority of the participants (70.6%) expressed favourable attitudes towards telepharmacy to accurately capture and report signs and symptoms of COVID-19. Almost 91% agreed that patients can receive immediate medical feedback while using telepharmacy services. Pharmacists (87%) emphasised their role in the monitoring of physiological parameters when entered by patients using telepharmacy technology. However, more than half of the participants reported that lack of reimbursement and evidence-based studies might hinder the use of telemedicine technology to deliver remote clinical services. Conclusion:The need for implementing telepharmacy technology has been further boosted because of its noticeable benefits in promoting convenient healthcare services remotely in emergency situations.

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“…Telepharmacy is defined as “the provision of pharmacist care by registered pharmacists and pharmacies through the use of telecommunications to patients located at a distance” [4]. Telepharmacy services already developed include medication selection, order review and dispensing, patient counselling and monitoring, and provision of clinical service [4,5]. A typical feature of a telepharmacy service is that the pharmacist is not physically present at the point of pharmacy operations or patient care.…”

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Telepharmacy Services: Present Status and Future Perspectives: A Review

2019

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Background and Objectives: The term “telepharmacy” indicates a form of pharmaceutical care in which pharmacists and patients are not in the same place and can interact using information and communication technology (ICT) facilities. Telepharmacy has been adopted to provide pharmaceutical services to underserved areas and to address the problem of pharmacist shortage. This paper has reviewed the multi-faceted phenomenon of telepharmacy, summarizing different experiences in the area. Advantages and limitations of telepharmacy are discussed as well. Materials and Methods: A literature analysis was carried out on PubMed, using as entry term “telepharmacy” and including articles on the topic published between 2012 and 2018. Results: The studies reviewed were divided into three categories of pharmacy practice, namely (1) support to clinical services, (2) remote education and handling of “special pharmacies”, and (3) prescription and reconciliation of drug therapies. In general, different telepharmacy services were effective and accompanied by a satisfaction of their targets. Conclusions: Nowadays, the shortage of health personnel, and in particular pharmacists, is a challenging issue that the health systems have to face. The use of a new technology such as telepharmacy can represent a possible option to solve these problems. However, there are unsolved limitations (e.g., legal implications) that make greater diffusion of telepharmacy difficult. Stronger data on the effectiveness of this area of pharmacy care, together with a critical evaluation of its limits, can make actors involved aware about the potentialities of it and could contribute to a larger diffusion of telepharmacy services in the interest of communities and citizens.

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Telepharmacy: Time to pick up the line

Cited by 36 publications

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Telepharmacy: a pharmacist’s perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges

Telepharmacy: a pharmacist’s perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges

Pharmacists’ experience, competence and perception of telepharmacy technology in response to COVID‐19

Telepharmacy Services: Present Status and Future Perspectives: A Review

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Pharmacists’ experience, competence and perception of telepharmacy technology in response to COVID‐19

Telepharmacy Services: Present Status and Future Perspectives: A Review

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