Agilio expands to pharmacy with acquisition of e-learning platform Mediapharm
Summary
Healthcare operations software provider Agilio has announced the acquisition of specialist pharmacy e-learning business Mediapharm, supplying a training platform for pharmacy staff that enables managers to enrol staff and track performance. The acquisition marks Agilio’s expansion into the pharmacy sector, and aims to support Mediapharm in scaling its offer as well as “adding new, complementary services” for customers. He called the acquisition “strategically very significant” and added: “As pharmacy takes on more clinical services, the links between pharmacies and GPs will grow and Agilio will be ideally positioned to support the frontline primary care team with time-saving solutions.” In other recent news, HTN reported that electronic document management system provider CCube Solutions acquired Thomson Screening Solutions, a supplier of child health clinical applications used by over 40 NHS, healthcare and education providers. June saw us highlight the launch of a video game by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, designed to help boost recruitment for pharmacy roles by enabling interaction between a virtual patients who must be given the right medication and a virtual doctor. We also previously noted the awarding of funding to eight community pharmacy system suppliers, to develop an electronic prescription service in Wales.