Digital healthcare company Truepill and healthcare technology prescription specialist firm ScriptDrop are teaming up to combine ScriptDrop's same-day prescription delivery service with Truepill's pharmacy platform, which will give patients the ability to choose their own retail pharmacy for medication delivery via ScriptDrop's two-hour service.
The partnership allows patients to visit their local...
Prescription cost savings company GoodRx partnered with grocery chain Publix to bring the company’s GoodRx Gold platform to Publix customers.
The Gold platform offers prescription drug savings as well as telehealth options, including provider visits and telepharmacy appointments.
Doug Hirsch, cofounder and chief mission officer at GoodRx, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the partnership...
Amazon Pharmacy announced it expanded its same-day medication-delivery offerings to residents of New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, providing patients with quick access to prescription medicines for diabetes, flu, high blood pressure and other common conditions.
The company said it can provide its same-day delivery services thanks to assembling small facilities that hold thousands...
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,...
