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Are Retailers the New Market Makers?
Published in Tom Lawry, Hacking Healthcare, 2022
Amazon Care's expansion also comes as the tech giant moves into at-home testing. It recently got the green light from the FDA to begin offering its own COVID-19 test directly to consumers. And with the acquisition of the online pharmacy PillPack, the tech giant is launching Amazon Pharmacy, allowing consumers to purchase prescription drugs online and have them shipped to a home or office.16
Human biomedical research, medical innovations and information technologies in healthcare †
Published in Gary Chan Kok Yew, Health Law and Medical Ethics in Singapore, 2020
In 1993, the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) used virtual reality surgery to remove brain tumours and arteriovenous malformations (Ang 2016, at pp. 225–226). About 20 years later, in 2012, SGH began using the daVinci robot-assisted surgical system for minimally invasive procedures to remove cancers in the throat, tongue and tonsils. Changi General Hospital’s online pharmacy enables the purchase of homecare and medical supplies via Internet and online healthcare assessment tools. Since 2014, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH) outpatient pharmacy automation system has been providing automated, radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, and robotic technology to ensure accurate medication packing and dispensing to patients. The robotic endoscopy system (Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot or MASTER) has been employed by the National University Hospital (NUH) to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection in patients (Sim 2016, at p. 254).
Pharmacy Informatics and Automation
Published in William N. Kelly, Pharmacy, 2018
Some online (Internet) pharmacies accept new prescriptions from patients. However, some of these may not be licensed pharmacies, and patients need to be cautious about these deceptive or bogus pharmacies.29 In addition, a recent survey of 300 adult online consumers revealed that most people would rather patronize their local pharmacy than a virtual pharmacy.26 The reasons provided for not liking an online pharmacy included less comfort level with the pharmacist, insurance not accepted, physician not being able to enter the prescription online, and the service being more expensive.
Haven Health is About to Disrupt the U.S. Healthcare System
Published in Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021
María Teresa Bedoya Reina, Nicholas Brereton, Mihail Zilbermint
After thorough research and careful consideration of possible healthcare disruption options, authors recommend Haven deploy the following strategies: Focus on primary care and provide employees with immediate and free access to physicians or advanced practice practitioners [14].Develop and incentivize chronic disease prevention, especially diabetes [15], obesity, and hypertension and cardiovascular disease.Invest in patient’s health education and literacy.Leverage enhanced analytics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing and make connections between electronic health systems and other data sources to identify optimal treatments.Use existing Alexa healthcare technology to further develop and deploy a reliable telehealth platform that would be easily accessible across all devices.Contract directly with the pharmaceutical industry to deduce the cost of prescription drugs and then leverage the stake in the PillPack, a full-service online pharmacy that delivers prescriptions in pre-sorted bags.Utilize Whole Foods and meal-delivery systems to deliver nutritious and healthy meals to members.Advise all employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and verify the effect of this vaccination by testing for Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies.
Investigation of black box drugs purchased from an online pharmacy
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2019
Kelsie Watkins, O. Hayden Griffin, Elizabeth A. Gardner
A Google search was conducted using the words “online pharmacy,” “Nolvadex,” “Actos,” and “Wellbutrin SR.” An online pharmacy was selected that sold all three drugs without a prescription. Five months after purchase, an email was received suggesting that if Wellbutrin SR were reordered, a discount and free shipping would be applied to the order. The email contained a different URL from the original purchase. Currently, both websites are inactive.
Reproductive health under COVID-19 – challenges of responding in a global crisis
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
Kathryn Church, Jennifer Gassner, Megan Elliott
But perhaps most importantly, movement and travel restrictions are impacting upon the ability of frontline providers to reach the most vulnerable with SRH services. Donor-funded SRH programmes often focus their delivery in poor, rural, marginalised communities – but when mobile outreach programmes are suspended or heavily restricted, women and girls in these areas may be left with no alternatives; they are the least likely to access or be able to pay for pharmacy-supplied products, to access any form of telemedicine or to be able to travel further to towns to find care. The flexibility to pivot towards self-care and telemedicine is also limited by national policy restrictions and lack of regulatory approvals in many countries (for example where medical abortion or injectable contraceptives for self-administration are not approved). The distribution and sale of products through pharmacies is also limited during the pandemic: travel restrictions, reduced priority assigned to RH products by distributors and pharmacists, tight credit and loss of income, are some of the factors that are making it difficult to maintain recent stock levels. Partnerships with online pharmacy retailers may be one additional means of distribution, although use will be limited to those with internet access. And despite intensive efforts to adapt quickly, we anticipate that reduced access to RH services and products will have major health consequences and disproportionately affect the most marginalised groups that we aim to serve. We are monitoring our programmes weekly and our most conservative estimates of the impact of service reductions between March and August 2020 suggest that we could see an additional 1.3 million unintended pregnancies in the 37 countries where we work this year.6,7 We estimate that this increased scale of unintended pregnancies could mean an additional 1.2 million unsafe abortions and 5000 pregnancy-related deaths. Our forecast, based on 37 countries, will likely be greatly amplified if public sector SRH services falter across the Global South, as recent estimates from the Guttmacher Institute suggest.8 Thus, while the impact of COVID-19 is evidenced daily through reported infections and deaths, the true scale of its wider impact on SRH outcomes across the globe may become more apparent in the months to come.