Health IT

A digital dispensing pharmacy launched in Auckland last month, with patients able to upload a photo of their prescription to the pharmacy’s website before meds are dispensed for free and delivered on the same day for $15  

The Ministry of Health has confirmed prescribers will be allowed to send prescriptions to pharmacies via email once analogue fax machines are phased out at the end of this year

Email may be used to send signed prescriptions, as long as the email service meets the ministry’s security requirements 

Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows 7 in less than two months and pharmacies unprepared for the change could be left vulnerable to hackers

Every day, GP clinics fax pharmacies thousands of prescriptions

In a new era of DHBs expecting pharmacists to offer more clinical services, and a not-so-new era of rural pharmacies struggling to find workers

David Taylor says a year has made all the difference to GPs becoming comfortable working with his company’s repeat prescription ordering Zoom app 

The Napier pharmacy trialling the instore virtual-doctor service, Doctor2Go, has found patients are very interested in the concept but not so much in using it.

Tauranga Hospital’s pharmacy has a new member of staff – but she’s not human

About a year after the launch of innovative medicine delivery service Zoom Pharmacy, Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Zoom’s boss about the company’s experiences in business