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Many patients who visit the pharmacy have diabetes. How many of these patients actually have their diabetes well controlled or even know how to properly monitor their blood glucose?
In just two-and-a-half years, Vancouver-based Well Health Technologies went from providing OSCAR EMR software to about 200 clinics in B.C. to a user base of almost 11,000 physicians in about 2,200 sites across the country. With its recently launched app developer marketplace, Well Health aims to turn EMRs to platforms that clinicians can customize as easily as their iPhones.
An organization representing multiple employers with drug plans will be opening its own virtual pharmacy, as revealed by a presenter at the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy's recent Pharmacy Forum webinar.
There are three key types of home-use devices that could help manage patients at home; Peak expiratory flow (PEF), spirometry and oscillometry. But there are still technical challenges, a need for more data demonstrating effectiveness, and issues around digital privacy to resolve.
