For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
GPs get efficiency tool for monitoring patients
GPs get efficiency tool for monitoring patients

As Omicron takes hold in the community, GPs have a new online tool to help them keep track of patients’ symptoms remotely.
Manage My Health has added My Health Diary to its suite of functions. What it means is patients can go online and fill out information boxes about their symptoms.
Their healthcare providers get real time access to their observations and visualizations of the trends of their symptoms. Based on the information about blood pressure, oxygen levels (all self-monitored) and things like fever or headache or pains, the healthcare provider can then decide what to do.
Vino Ramayah, CEO of Manage My Health, says the tool has been developed together with healthcare professionals.
“It is an extension of the work we have been doing with St Bart’s Hospital in London for the past two years,” Mr. Ramayah says. “At St Bart’s, cardiologists have been running a virtual clinic with heart patients using the same model.”
Manage My Health is currently developing phase two of My Health Diary to integrate with multiple health devices to enable patients to be monitored at home by healthcare providers.