THE Australasian College of Pharmacy has launched a new CPD module as it believes that digital initiatives in health can produce significant benefits for patients and healthcare providers.
The aged care system can help older Australians get support for tasks they are no longer able to conduct on their own, the organisation explained.
Aged care services available include in-home aged care, residential aged care (nursing homes), short-term care and palliative care, stated the College.
Digital health technologies and tools (eg: My Health Record, electronic prescriptions, active script list or ASL, and electronic National Residential Medication Chart) play a significant role in ensuring continuity of care and a more collaborative approach to healthcare delivery, it added.
With this in mind, the College said the new course provides an overview of the digital health tools and initiatives that pharmacists and other healthcare professionals have at their disposal, to integrate into their current workflow and for applications in the delivery of health services in aged care.
The one-hour course highlights the benefits of using digital health tools when providing pharmacy-related medication management services to older Australians.
This course has been developed by the College, in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
This activity has been accredited for one hour of Group One CPD (or one CPD credit) suitable for inclusion in an individual pharmacist's CPD plan, which can be converted to one hour of Group Two CPD (or two CPD credits) upon successful completion of relevant assessment activities.
Pharmacists can freely access this CPD module both via the College and GuildEd. JG
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