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Staff at Tampa General Hospital now have access to a telemedicine station that offers virtual consults with clinicians via high-definition video and audio, as well as automated pharmaceutical services.October 17
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Penn Medicine outpatient practices in New Jersey successfully implemented electronic medical record best practice alerts to ensure clinicians complied with a state law limiting opioid prescriptions.October 15
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GoodRx, an online marketplace for discounts on prescription drugs, has acquired startup HeyDoctor, giving it a foothold in providing medical care over the internet.September 26
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Getting into the pharmacy business was easy for Amazon.com: It paid $753 million to buy the mail-order startup PillPack. The hard part has been prying patients away from their local drugstores.September 16
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are developing a clinical decision support tool to help avoid over- and under-prescribing of opioids for women undergoing cesarean section.August 30
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Amerigroup Texas is offering Medicaid recipients telehealth consultations with medical and behavioral healthcare providers at no cost.August 22
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The lack of robust Medicaid data is preventing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from conducting a national analysis to identify beneficiaries potentially at risk of opioid misuse or overdose.August 22
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Prescription drug monitoring programs, state-run electronic databases, are on the frontlines of fighting America’s opioid crisis but have different requirements for prescribers to review the PDMP information.August 6
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Congressional watchdog agency also suggests that the Indian Health Service needs to centralize its information technology operations.July 24
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Seattle-based First Choice Health will offer free de-identified prescription opioid use reports to employers in the Puget Sound area.July 22
