The waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-electronic prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature will expire in three days and the Ministry of Health has not yet decided if it should continue
To ease the rollout of dispensing COVID-19 antivirals without prescriptions, all pharmacies now have free access to the shared medical record viewer Conporto
Katrina Azer, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, summarises stand-out research and practice sessions from the Pharmaceutical Society Australia symposium in Sydney
Health minister Andrew Little says it will be legal for prescribers to use the New Zealand ePrescription Service to send scripts for controlled drugs by the end of the year
The Rollout of the Australian medicine management app MedAdvisor in Green Cross Health pharmacies has reached more than half of pharmacies in the network.
Digital reminder technology can halve the risk of asthma attacks, a review led by University of Auckland School of Pharmacy senior clinical research fellow Amy Chan has found.
Pharmacy owners are happy to be receiving recompense for existing and future telehealth initiatives but for some it has gone completely under the radar, Paulette Crowley reports
In response to the Ministry of Health funding telehealth services through pharmacy, Katrina Azer, one of New Zealand’s first digital pharmacists, provides an overview. Ms Azer has been providing telepharmacy as a virtual clinical pharmacist at Tend Health for more than 12 months
Academic pharmacist Nataly Martini provides key information on Helicobacter pylori pathophysiology, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment strategies to enhance patient outcomes