Digital health tools can improve medicine safety and make systems more efficient – but poor system design often doesn’t bring healthcare practitioners and their patients on the journey.
For Bradley Butt MPS at his Cooleman Court Pharmacy in Canberra, dispensing robots and automation are just tools that help him focus on delivering award-winning pharmacy services to patients.
The move to electronic prescribing is the ‘biggest process change in medicine supply since computers were introduced in pharmacy in the 1980s’.
I want to implement SafeScript in my pharmacy. What do I do, and how long does the process take?
SafeScript is an initiative by the...
Conducting research can be a daunting prospect. But by choosing a mentor and working intelligently, pharmacists can research and have their work published.
A study...
It’s no longer plain sailing in Australian community pharmacy. Bruce Annabel helps navigate in this, the fourth instalment of our Future Health series.
Most...
Faye McMillan is a pioneer, paving the way for other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who want to work in the pharmacy profession.
A range of apps enable pharmacists and patients to see and/or manage their medical information.
As the benefits of My Health Record (MHR) become...
A new MedicineWise program aims to increase the number of patients seeking help for anxiety and other mood disorders by educating healthcare professionals.
Anxiety disorders,...
Psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in ‘magic mushrooms’, is being trialled in the treatment of terminally ill patients to reduce symptoms of depression and...
