[Brett Chambers]
We've got a problem which happens right around Australia and actually across the world where we've got people spread out over very large geographical area and it's not cost effective or feasible to have a pharmacist at each of our health services in our district. So what we've done is we're using virtual Healthcare so things like video conferencing to take pharmacists to the patients at the bedside and we're able to help patients and doctors and nursing staff to safely use medications at their Hospital.
I remember a case where I saw a patient at one of our small rural hospitals and he'd come in becoming increasingly unwell unable to keep food down and it turns out it was actually caused by one of his medications. And you know the doctor called me and said I think this is related to medications, I'm not really sure. When through interviewing the patient and going through his story and looking at his laboratory results it was clear to me that it was caused by a medication and were able to quickly fix that, reduce the dose right down and and get him out of Hospital.
