Part of Carebook's Global Blog Series: The Future of Pharmacy Andrew Matthews, a Director at the Australian Digital Health Agency, shares how Australia's future-facing digital health strategy accelerated with the global COVID-19 crisis—and is succeeding with a people-centric approach. https://youtu.be/38uxUSQ6y0g "Co-design involves working together to design a new product [or process], making full use of each other’s knowledge, resources and... Read More
Pharmacists can be trusted supporters for mental health patients
Almost everywhere in the world, pharmacists are the most accessible health care provider. Most people find it easier to step into their local pharmacy to ask about medication side effects than to try and make an appointment with a doctor. Pharmacists are also the final checkpoint between patients and prescription drugs: they make sure that the right drugs and right... Read More
Digital pharmacy solutions: Medication Adherence
Digital solutions can offer more than just reminders to improve medication adherence Why should we care about medication adherence? Less than half of the world’s chronically ill patients are adherent to their prescribed medication. That means, one out of every two patients with a chronic disease doesn't take their medication according to their healthcare provider’s recommendations.(1) This is costly for... Read More