TELEPHARMACY
Roohi Fatima*, Sana Ahmed and Sayada Yameen Gulshi
ABSTRACT
Telpharmacy is the use of telecommunications technology to provide pharmacist services to distant populations.
Telepharmacy services may includes drug review, provision of drug information, medication dispensing,
verification of oral and sterile compounding, patient assessment, patient counselling and medication therapy
management. The implementation of telepharmacy system is rapidly expanding due to the increasing affordability
of videoconferencing technology and the increasing capacity of the pharmacist to securely assist electronic patient
health records and perform traditional pharmacy practice activities remotely by the internet. The research on
telepharmacy services reveals that patients are generally satisfied with the telepharmacy care they receives. Nurses
and other healthcare professionals are also more satisfied with the after hour pharmacy services they receive by
telepharmacy than before the telephartmacy system was implemented. Telepharmacy services have generally been
shown to improve medication-related patient safely at remote hospitals. Patient clinical outcome have been shown
improvement following the implementation of telepharmacy services. Recommendations for more stringent
studies of telepharmacy services are provided.
Keywords: Telepharmacy; telemedicine; pharmacy; pharmacies; pharmacistsmedication therapy management; drug information services.
[Full Text Article]