A pharmacist from the NM Vital pharmacy in Nuremberg is the initiator of a web-based telepharmacy application called Apomondo, which has been in existence since April 2020 and enables telepharmacy consultation hours between pharmacy staff on-site and patients. However, the team of pharmacists around initiator Margit Schlenk has sought help and signed a cooperation agreement with the company Wave / Pharma Privat to introduce the telepharmacy tool Apomondo to customers via Wave’s sales force. The pharmacists involved in the project, which was started half a year ago during the Corona crisis, are, apart from Schlenk, almost all of them pharmacists themselves, such as Wolfgang Kuhn from the Sonnenapotheke Peissenberg, Dr. Elvan Erdal (Rosen Apotheke Garbsen), Stefan Frank (Ronneburg Apotheke Langenselbold) as well as Uwe Gebauer from the GB Projektkontor, who as managing director is responsible for technical development. As technical condition, the stationary pharmacies need only Internetable computers and a pharmacy operating permit for presentation with registration and de-energizing the first time free basic version, which is provided then however with further functionalities, liable to pay the costs. Office pharmacies are to be strengthened in such a way despite the Corona Pandemic, explain Schlenk, which thinks particularly of the own profession and pharmacists thereby to more souvenir wants to help, in addition, security and success and thus profit increase for pharmacies are to be optimized. The tool of Apomondo is to promote thereby individual consulting, service and medication discussions, in order to outgun mail-order pharmacies as competition regarding consulting activities. In telephone pharmacy consultation hours, patients seek to talk to specially trained „pharmacists for applied telepharmacy“ and „Tele-PTA“, who can already take part in IHK further training measures. Patients only need to register for a video consultation using a dial-in code, which is assigned on the Apomondo site. The cooperating pharmacy is trained with the help of a user manual and support by Apomondo. Schlenk attaches particular importance to the fact that the pharmacy’s own video portal, which it initiated, helps pharmacists on-site with advice and order, as a messenger service is also integrated into the complete package.
Source: Apotheke-adhoc.de