CVS is tesing remote prescriptions, a move it said could improve store working conditions and the experience for customers as the company grapples with a shortage of pharmacists.
CVS has equipped roughly 8,000 of its more than 9,000 U.S. drugstores with technology that allows pharmacists to review and enter prescription information remotely while still meeting patient-privacy requirements. About 400 of CVS’s 30,000 pharmacists are currently helping prepare prescriptions either at central locations, from their homes or in stores other than where medications will be dispensed, the company said.
Full story at Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-tries-out-remote-system-to-help-fill-prescriptions
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