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Special Report - Health Care - September 04, 2009
Pharmacy consulting firm launches 'telepharmacy' services
Medication Review Inc. pharmacists approve meds for small, rural hospitals

By David Cole
Of the Journal of Business

K. Douglas Crafton, president of Medication Review Inc., says he expects the company to be providing telepharmacy services to up to 15 rural hospitals within the next 12 months.
K. Douglas Crafton, president of Medication Review Inc., says he expects the company to be providing telepharmacy services to up to 15 rural hospitals within the next 12 months.
—Staff photo by David Cole
A four-year-old Spokane company that helps hospitals, pharmacies, and long-term care facilities meet state and federal pharmacy regulations and improve pharmacy procedures has now begun offering what's called "telepharmacy" services to rural hospitals that can't afford to have their own pharmacists on staff.

The company, Medication Review Inc., received approval from the Washington state Board of Pharmacy on July 30 to provide to hospitals automated dispensing of medications and of...


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