TelePharm is head and shoulders above any other telepharmacy product that we have looked at. TelePharm will be a key building block to growing our business.
Brett Barker, PharmD
Vice President of Operations, NuCara Pharmacy
I have been extremely impressed with how easy and fast everything is. It’s very user friendly and extremely intuitive. They’ve been able to make it so that just about anybody can figure out how to do it with just a couple clicks and a very small tutorial.
Jake Olson, PharmD
Owner, Skywalk Pharmacy
Currently, we are trying to open more locations. Any new pharmacies we open will definitely start as a telepharmacy. No question.
Rachit Shah, RPh
Owner, SureCare Pharmacy
In terms of being a pharmacy owner, telepharmacy is like a dream come true. The business model is fantastic!
Dave Falk
Owner, Sav Mor Pharmacy
Telepharmacy, or remote pharmacy, is the way to go. With reimbursements going down, it’s a good idea to go with telepharmacy.
Tushar Mehta, RPh
Owner, Broadway Ave Pharmacy
Telepharmacy helps create a new patient-pharmacist relationship that wasn’t possible before. I highly recommend retail telepharmacy to any pharmacy owners or pharmacists.
Angela Falk, PharmD
Pharmacist, Sav Mor Pharmacy
UW Health is a health system notorious for using technology to allow healthcare professionals to provide the best service and outcomes possible. When Joe Cesarz, Pharm.D., Ambulatory Pharmacy Manager at UW Health, heard about telepharmacy and TelePharm, he had an idea of how to use the technology.
“We were looking at a partnership with a clinic in the area, Access Community Health Centers, and they wanted someone to put pharmacies in their different locations,” he said speaking about their first telepharmacy site located in the Joyce & Marshall Erdman Clinic. “When we were evaluating this location, the struggle was the volume didn’t really justify having a full-fledged pharmacy with a pharmacist on-site.”
At that time, Joe started exploring different options.
“What could we do to at least provide some dispensing services to the clinic at a lower cost or at least more efficiently?” The UW Health team then came up with two different strategies.
“One of our strategies was where can we offer dispensing services where the volume doesn’t necessarily justify it? The second strategy was how can we use telepharm to basically decouple the pharmacist from the dispensing process and the product process in the pharmacy and use those resources more in the clinics.”
Telepharmacy — and TelePharm — was the answer.
In addition to operating a telepharmacy at the Erdman Community Health Center, UW Health has two other telepharmacies, one of which is part of an on-site clinic for employees at an appliances manufacturing business.
Joe Cesarz has witnessed their telepharmacy program bloom into a success for the health system.
“If we can provide the same level of service that a patient would receive when they’re at a pharmacy when it comes to product verification and patient safety, as well as the pharmacist consult and medication education and training for patients, if we can achieve that, in my mind that is success.”
Joe said he recommends telepharmacy to other academic medical centers.
“There’s a ton of interest to do it, and there’s obviously a lot of opportunity,” he said. “It’s a sweet spot for pharmacy right now.”
