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Roundup: Non-OTC drugs prescription via telemedicine prohibited in India and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Regulator bars e-prescription of non-OTC drugs in India Indian doctors using telemedicine can only prescribe OTC Drugs, according to the National Medical Commission. Their pursuit of new solutions will also allow tech ventures to test their tailor-made solutions in real-life operating settings.

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E-Prescriptions are Better to Deliver Medicine at Home

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E-prescribing allows a physician or other medical expert to create a medical prescription for a patient electronically. Picks up prescribed antibiotics at the pharmacy for urinary tract infection (UTI). Connects with an on-demand doctor through telehealth and drops off a urine sample at an urgent-care clinic.

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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

More regulatory churn is coming to shake up e-prescribing, this time with new data standards to step up clinical decision support at the point of care. To learn more about these standards, check out my blog on the initial e-prescribing updates announced by CMS in December 2022.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions. million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" This means "[w]e will know when a patient’s data was last accessed from the NHI," explained Brian Biggs, customer relations and sales director for InterSystems New Zealand. During a discovery exercise, it was found that staff had great reliance on handwritten clinical notes and observations on paper graph forms.

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Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload

Healthcare IT Today

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Pharmacists, for example, are trained and licensed to prescribe and renew a small number of medications. Physician Shortage Physicians everywhere are overworked.

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DEA moves to extend telehealth prescribing flexibilities after voluminous stakeholder feedback

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In February, the DEA proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications and the draft rule would require patients to have in-person exams. "Clinically, a valid prescription is a valid prescription and the fact that one was issued via telemedicine makes it no less so," the organization stressed.