TY - JOUR
T1 - Pharmacists and telemedicine
T2 - an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
AU - Bukhari, Nadia
AU - Siddique, Maryam
AU - Bilal, Nazia
AU - Javed, Sobia
AU - Moosvi, Arzu
AU - Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/11/8
Y1 - 2021/11/8
N2 - The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doctHERs, one of Pakistan’s leading telemedicine organizations. This innovative model has described the reintegration of women into the workforce by leveraging technology to improve the level of primary health care services and contributes to safe medication practice in a remote area. Our intervention proposed the deployment of technology-enabled, female frontline health workers known as the Guddi baji (meaning The Good Sister) in a rural village. They serve as an “access point to health care” that is linked to a remotely located health care professional; a licensed doctor or a pharmacist within this model.
AB - The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doctHERs, one of Pakistan’s leading telemedicine organizations. This innovative model has described the reintegration of women into the workforce by leveraging technology to improve the level of primary health care services and contributes to safe medication practice in a remote area. Our intervention proposed the deployment of technology-enabled, female frontline health workers known as the Guddi baji (meaning The Good Sister) in a rural village. They serve as an “access point to health care” that is linked to a remotely located health care professional; a licensed doctor or a pharmacist within this model.
KW - Pharmacists
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Sustainable Development Goals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118721493&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s40545-021-00378-9
DO - 10.1186/s40545-021-00378-9
M3 - Comment/debate
VL - 14
JO - Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
JF - Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
SN - 2052-3211
IS - 1
M1 - 96
ER -
