The Role Of Digital Health In Pharmacy: Innovations, Opportunities, & Barriers | PsychU Community Podcast

 

 

Digital health technology can be used in a variety of settings to increase adherence, engage patients, and measure outcomes. This includes within community, hospital, clinical, and retail pharmacies, where pharmacists fill and refill prescriptions, educate patients on medication side effects, review prescriptions for medication contraindications, provide vaccinations and other medical services, manage chronic conditions, and provide medication management services.

Many providers, including pharmacists, are adopting digital health solutions to increase their ability to provide efficient and effective care to the patients they serve.

In this interview, Dr. Timothy Aungst chats with Dr. Bob Pitasi about the potential opportunities digital health technologies present to the pharmacy profession, including remote enhanced chronic care management, integrated teleservice care, and digitally monitoring patient adherence. Finally, speakers discuss potential barriers to digital health adoption and utilization.

Timothy Aungst, Pharm.D., is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at MCPHS University, in Worcester, Massachusettes. During his post-graduate training, he began writing for multiple companies about mHealth and digital health solutions, with a focus on mobile applications.

Since then, Dr. Aungst has conducted research on digital health technologies for pharmacy and published multiple peer review journal articles on the topic.

Robert Pitasi, Pharm.D., BCPP, MBA, is a Medical Science Liaison for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.Dr. Pitasi is a paid employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.

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