Yearly Archive for: ‘2011’
How tablets are changing business 0
By Dianne Buckner, CBC News Posted: Mar 29, 2011 3:15 PM ET Call me crazy, but I don’t want an iPad. I really don’t. As far as I’m concerned, they look like over-sized iPods — awkward and clumsy. Didn’t want the first version, couldn’t care less about the new, slimmer, faster version that had people …
Read MoreProvince part of health history 0
SAINT JOHN – The first electronic prescription in Canada made using an iPad was filled out in Rothesay using New Brunswick-developed technology, according to the CEO of MedRunner Health Solutions Inc. “It’s huge…it validates what we’ve been doing in the past year and a half,” said Todd Murphy, CEO of the Saint John-based company that …
Read MoreGroups invest $300K in Saint John’s MedRunner 0
Created by entrepreneur Todd Murphy and software engineer Kevin Garnett, MedRunner lets physicians submit prescriptions to a patient’s pharmacy electronically rather than write them by hand.
Read MoreN.B. businesses can cut health costs 0
This story and more from the Telegraph Journal (Saint John).
Read MoreMedRunner Health Solutions develops industry-leading prescription platform using Test Level 7™ 0
MedRunner Health Solutions is a Canadian e-Health company that supports the development of healthcare-related ICT solutions. The company’s core product is an electronic prescribing solution that can be accessed through the Internet on a desktop or from a mobile application.
Read MoreNBIF Invests in MedRunner’s e-Prescription Technology 0
Every year, pharmacists in Canada alone dispense 450 million paper-based drug prescriptions. In the United States it’s 3.5 billion. Every day, many of those pharmacists struggle with two problems: illegible handwriting and negative drug interactions. Both can lead to adverse health effects…
Read MorePharmacies to upgrade technologies; Electronic prescriptions could be coming to New Brunswick 0
Carrying a handwritten slip from the doctor’s office to the pharmacy may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology being developed right here in New Brunswick.
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