Add Kansas to the list of State Boards that are willing to admit that technology can help their citizens! The KHI article also has some updates from the news from about a year ago that Via Christi Health System is using telepharmacy to service outlying facilities. Green also gives a summary and update of North Dakota's telepharmacy activities:The Kansas Board of Pharmacy has new regulations addressing telepharmacies under review, said Debra Billingsley, the board’s secretary.
A task force has met for the past several years to determine what regulations would best allow the expansion of telepharmacies without hurting existing brick-and-mortar businesses.
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The new regulations are now being reviewed by state agencies; once the Department of Administration and the Attorney General’s office approve the regulations, a public hearing will be conducted. Billingsley expects the regulations to be finalized by the end of the year.
A separate task force recently began meeting to address telepharmacy operations in hospitals.
...Eventually, once the regulations are in place, the hospital would like to provide access to its ePharmacy system to other facilities, including the state’s critical access hospitals in rural areas, Gagnon said.
“It’s going to be a big change in language of who can do what, and where you can be located,” he said. “It’s going to expand the opportunity to do new things. It’s going to be tricky to keep up with it from a legislative standpoint, as the technology continues to grow.
Today, the state has 72 telepharmacy sites, arranged in a “hub and spoke” model, that provide services to underserved communities, Peterson said, many with populations between 500 and 1,000 residents. More...
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