TechCrunch – “Playing catch-up in hospital innovation”
In this guest post, Mandira Singh, regular contributor on TechCrunch and head of Athenahealth’s More Disruption Please program, discusses the latest hospital innovation. Most notably, she cites PipelineRx for its ability to help fill the Pharmacy servicing gap. This is particularly important for rural hospitals that may lack enough local qualified pharmacists. Telepharmacists on PipelineRx’s cloud-based platform can remotely verify an order prescribed by a doctor day or night. “It’s high-tech convenience and efficiency that saves money — and lives.”
Singh says that healthcare providers need new ways of doing old processes. Better yet, they need to rethink what it means to deliver care altogether. She posits that “the potential of cloud solutions to radically transform the most complicated, systemic problems of hospitals and improve the way providers work, interact and treat patients is staggering.”