Pharmacy
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New research by Wolters Kluwer shows that trust in non-traditional primary care settings continues to grow – and with rising drug costs, primary care decentralization is likely to continue.
The national pharmacy network, which serves long-term care, senior living and behavioral health organizations, notified patients and families that an unknown third party accessed PHI and PII in March.
Healthcare is moving quickly to convenient locations like pharmacies, says a pharmacy IT expert.
As the host, it will ensure e-prescriptions come at no transaction cost.
The agency says it is reviewing a deluge of comments on its February proposed rulemaking ending telehealth prescriptions for certain controlled substances. It's unclear how far this new extension will last beyond the end of the PHE.
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs chose the company for its prescriber database because of "its national coverage, profile depth, flexibility and integrity," the council's president and CEO said.
In response to the DEA, ATA stresses telehealth's efficacy in reaching previously unreachable populations, details the operational complications and confusion that will ensue, and requests to ease provider burdens.
Patients who engaged with the technology were 32% less likely to experience a seven-day readmission and 16% less likely to experience a 30-day readmission.
The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action subsidiary say requiring patients who initiated treatment by telehealth during the pandemic to visit a provider for prescriptions is overly restrictive and could cause harm.
