Clinical pharmacists within the Veterans Affairs Department are applying machine learning techniques to automate administrative workflows around prescriptions and pharmacy benefits.
In doing so, they’re learning firsthand how emerging technology-based solutions can help free up their time, so that more attention can be given directly to patients, according to the Executive Director of the Veterans Health Administration’s Innovation Ecosystem, Dr. Ryan Vega…
“Vega didn’t go into deep technical detail regarding the new machine learning solution during the discussion on intelligent data-as-a-service (or iDaaS) in government health care, but he repeatedly emphasized the impact it had on the VA’s workforce.”
“What the result was, was not only freeing up these clinical pharmacists from these administrative tasks, but actually allowing these clinical pharmacists [to be] able to spend more time with patients at the bedside—so seeing our patients in clinics, or actually provide more care and service to patients in the hospital setting,” he said.
“Looking ahead to the promise iDaaS holds for the future, Vega articulated his belief that additive manufacturing within the walls of hospitals will eventually…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Turns to Machine Learning to Automate Prescription Workflows – By Brandi Vincent, November 11, 2020. Nextgov.
