page_title: Telehealth
section_title: Telepharmacy
hierarchical_section_title: Telehealth / Categories / Telepharmacy
caption_attribution_description: English: During a scheduled power outage, the pharmacy at the Winn Community Hospital continues electronic medical prescription service with assistance from MC4.
context_page_description: Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym, or is used in a more limited sense to describe remote clinical services, such as diagnosis and monitoring. When rural settings, lack of transport, a lack of mobility, decreased funding, or a lack of staff restrict access to care, telehealth may bridge the gap.
  as well as provider distance-learning; meetings, supervision, and presentations between practitioners; online information and health data management and healthcare system integration.
context_section_description: Telepharmacy is the delivery of pharmaceutical care via telecommunications to patients in locations where they may not have direct contact with a pharmacist. It is an instance of the wider phenomenon of telemedicine, as implemented in the field of pharmacy. Telepharmacy services include drug therapy monitoring, patient counseling, prior authorization and refill authorization for prescription drugs, and monitoring of formulary compliance with the aid of teleconferencing or videoconferencing. Remote dispensing of medications by automated packaging and labeling systems can also be thought of as an instance of telepharmacy. Telepharmacy services can be delivered at retail pharmacy sites or through hospitals, nursing homes, or other medical care facilities.
  The term can also refer to the use of videoconferencing in pharmacy for other purposes, such as providing education, training, and management services to pharmacists and pharmacy staff remotely.
caption: Pharmacy personnel deliver medical prescriptions electronically; remote delivery of pharmaceutical care is an example of telemedicine.
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