TELEPHARMACY - NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHARMACISTS AND PATIENTS (OVERVIEW)
TELEPHARMACY - NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHARMACISTS AND PATIENTS (OVERVIEW)

Summary/Abstract: The application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in healthcare opens new perspectives in the provision of health services and can contribute to limiting the problem of the reduced availability of health professionals. One of the solutions in this direction can be provided by telepharmacy.Telepharmaceutical services include drug therapy monitoring, patient counseling, pre-authorization and reloading of drug authorizations, prescribed by a doctor, monitoring the compliance with the formulation by teleconferencing or videoconferencing. A characteristic feature of the telepharmacy service is that the pharmacist is not physically present at the site of the pharmacy operations or patient care. The advantage of telepharmaceutical services is the wide range of pharmaceutical services in areas that are insufficiently accessible due to economic or geographical problems.The main obstacles to the application of telepharmacy are the potentially reduced human interaction between medical professionals and patients, the increased risk of errors in the provision of medical services, problems with the protection of health information that can be compromised, the lack of clear legal regulations.

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