A new study has uncovered unsafe prescribing practices promoted by some instant prescription service apps in Australia.
Done by researchers from the University of Western Australia, the study assessed the adherence to safety standards of seven prescription request apps available around the country.
FINDINGS
The findings, published in the Pharmacy journal of the Multidisciplinary Digital...
Doctor Koi, a health tech startup in Bangladesh, has received $500,000 in seed funding in an investment round led by Verge HealthTech Fund, an early-stage health technology venture capital fund. The round was also joined by some industry and local investors.
WHAT IT DOES
The company's flagship product Digital Rx, a prescription writing software, is being used by over 900 active doctors who are...
The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) informed gematik, Germany’s national agency for digital medicine, on 20 December, that the nationwide implementation of digital prescriptions cannot be implemented as initially scheduled.
The launch of the mandatory ePrescription, scheduled for 1 January 2022, has been postponed while the national testing period started at the beginning of December,...