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How blockchain can revolutionise medical records and save lives

pharmaphorum

One of the most challenging problems in the health-care industry is balancing people’s medical privacy with ease of access to medical history via electronic health records (EHRs). The state of medical records today. Blockchain: The ultimate electronic health record. Here’s how.

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The hospital pharmacy landscape in 2024

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Benefits are evident both in dispensing (for example, to count pills, label prescription vials, store drugs and integrate bar coding through automated dispensing cabinets, automated inventory management systems and pharmacy carousels) and in preparation (by automated workflow systems and compounding robotics for intravenous drugs).

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The “Amazon Effect” – Pharmacies, Healthcare, and Disruption

Fuld

CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart control over 20,000 bricks & mortar stores, or some 40% of all U.S. But Amazon has sent shock waves through these incumbents’ corporate offices with its recent move into the healthcare market via PillPack, Amazon Pharmacy and Amazon Care. retail pharmacies.

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Care … Amazon’s Revolutionary Move into Healthcare

Fuld

It is delivering prescriptions to patients rather than forcing them to go to a retail pharmacy, and it is providing a low-cost, hi-tech 24/7 on-body monitoring service backed up by leading-edge AI analytics to provide early disease detection and real-time health data. 2019 — Cerner, Amazon Care, and Health Navigator.

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Health Data Management: Everything You Need to Know

Viseven

Effective health data management enables pharma to unravel disease biology and advance prevention and treatment. That is why the Viseven team wants to share insights on the importance of health data and best practices for managing it correctly. What Is Health Data? What Is Health Data Management? Why Does It Matter?

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Revolutionizing Medicine and Public Health: The Emergence of Big Data in Healthcare

Roots Analysis

Big Data in healthcare refers to the vast amount of data that is continuously expanding and cannot be efficiently stored or processed using traditional tools. Types of Big Data in Healthcare Structured Data: Structured data is quantitative data in the form of numbers and values that can be processed, stored, and retrieved in a fixed format.

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UK gov’t defends NHS data sharing plans in strategy document

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The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has published a document setting out its strategy on handling patient data – and defending its plan to transfer millions of GP records into a centralised database. He has our e-mail… (We've heard nothing from him, @DHSCgovuk or @NHSX since the "pause" ).