Rise of the ePharmacists

Abstract

To address the region’s growing hospital pharmacist shortage, VCH developed the ePharmacy program to increase access to highly trained hospital pharmacists in both rural and metropolitan areas across the state for improved patient safety.

An ePharmacist is defined as a hospital trained pharmacist who works from a remote location using secured enabling technology to support bedside clinicians with an effective and timely method of providing medication treatments for patients.