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NHS App could offer video consultations by 2024

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” From March 2023, more users of the app will be able to use it to message their GP, book COVID-19 vaccinations, check their medical records and manage hospital elective care appointments – assuming that their NHS trust is on board with the digital upgrade.

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The hospital pharmacy landscape in 2024

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Tiene Bauters, PharmD PhD, Pharmacy Department , Ghent University Hospital in Belgium, offers her take on what’s hot on the horizon for hospital pharmacy in 2024. Further uses include automating patient medication records, prescription recording applications and seamless sharing of health records.

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Q2 2024 update: electronic medical record (emr) systems related private equity activity in the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the global pharmaceutical industry, there were 2 private equity deals announced in Q2 2024, worth a total value of $100m, according to GlobalData's Deals Database.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

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BCPS, BCIDP Article posted 13 December 2024 If you cannot measure it, you cannot determine if you have changedit. In this article an experienced antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist discusses lessons learned from navigating antimicrobial stewardship metrics. Authored by: Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D.,

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

The FDA Law Blog

FDA believes that RWE has the power to “accelerate medical product development and bring new innovations and advances faster and more efficiently to the patients who need them, without compromising patient safety.” Every use of ESD is recorded, as is every behavior that falls within the intended use.

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Implementing shared care agreements for amiodarone therapy: a pharmacy case study

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Consequently, the ‘amiodarone for patients within adult services’ shared care protocol was published by the NENC Medicines Subcommittee in February 2024. A further challenge was access to historical medical records and subsequent time taken to ascertain indications for amiodarone. NHS England 2023 (accessed September 2024).

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Automated medication management a long way off for most European hospitals, survey finds

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

EAHP and the SIG believes that systematic and EU-wide achievement of electronic prescribing, administration and use of electronic medical records will improve patient safety and help advance the development of automation systems,’ the survey report said.