Hospital pharmacists play a vital role in medication safety and the prevention of adverse drug events, which is why regulatory agencies recognize the need for 24-hour pharmacist medication review. With Avel eCare pharmacy, hospitals and health systems can fill their staffing gaps and reduce burnout by having access to Avel’s pharmacy team available around-the-clock to provide excellent patient care.

This team of licensed, hospital-trained pharmacists are experienced in clinical settings, familiar with appropriate monitoring parameters for drug efficacy and side effects, manage fluid compatibilities, and understand hospital workflows. In partnership with local care teams in 153 sites, Avel eCare pharmacists have conducted 32,561 interventions, helped facilities avoid 7,452 adverse drug events, and provide a 17-minute average turnaround time. In addition, these services ensure:

Accurate and efficient medication order entry, review and clinical pharmacy services whenever you need it

Reduced risk of medication errors and adverse events

Compliance with regulations and your medication practices

Avera eCARE® is a national leader in virtual health care with a proven 25-year record in visionary thinking. We’re using innovation to find new ways to connect our specialty care providers to health systems — both large and small.

Deliver convenient, quality care asynchronously

Bright.md’s asynchronous telehealth solution lets providers treat low-acuity conditions virtually, without a real-time interaction—all while driving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. With evidence-based clinical content and seamless integration into your existing workflows, Bright.md automates administrative work to allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

What is Bright.md?

Bright.md is a complete, white-labeled solution for health systems to empower their patient population with self-service online tools that guides them to the optimal type of care based on their concern, and when determined appropriate, take a thorough symptom assessment to receive a diagnosis and treatment plan from their own providers. 

Self-service symptom assessment

Enable an accessible care option 24/7 for common conditions via a patient initiated, online symptom assessment to gather all necessary information for 130+ treatable diagnoses.

Clinical decision support and automated chart note

Treat low-acuity conditions quickly and efficiently, while preserving clinical judgment and autonomy with Bright.md’s evidence-based clinical decision support for diagnosing. Bright.md translates the patient interview into a chart-ready SOAP note and makes it readily available via MDM interface for integration as an encounter in the EHR (Epic, Cerner, Athena).

Online care finder

Achieve positive patient outcomes at lower costs with digital navigation that guides patients to the optimal venue of care, right from your website or portal.

Bright.md is trusted by enterprise health systems around the country including Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Baptist Health, UnityPoint Health, Prisma Health, Mercy Health, and OHSU.

Bright.md’s asynchronous telehealth solution lets providers treat low-acuity conditions virtually, without a real-time interaction—all while driving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. With evidence-based clinical content and seamless integration into your existing workflows, Bright.md automates administrative work to allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

Health systems around the country, including Baptist Health, Prisma Health, UnityPoint Health, CoxHealth, OHSU, ProHealth Care, and many more, choose Bright.md to improve patient access to quality care, alleviate administrative burden on providers, stay competitive with a convenient, consumer-centered experience, and reduce costs of delivering low-acuity care.

Around-the-clock support from our Avel eCare Pharmacy team will help your facility achieve:

• Patient safety through timely medication reviews, verifications, reconciliations, pharmacist–directed interventions and monitoring to reduce the risk of adverse drug events
• Reduction of post-discharge adverse drug events and readmissions with pharmacist discharge consultations. Connect with our pharmacists to provide individual patient education on medications prior to discharge
• Continuity of care by following your facility’s medication use protocols, regardless of the time of day or day of the week. Your clinical staff always has an on-duty Avel eCare Pharmacy pharmacist to consult if questions arise
• Improved staff confidence and satisfaction through 24-hour access to pharmacists for consultations and questions. For example, your nurses can focus on nursing when they don’t need to fill the role of an overnight pharmacist
• Increased flexibility for on-site pharmacists to actively engage in direct patient care while medication orders are handled remotely. Vacation days, leaves of absence and staff shortages can be covered with minimal disruption to your team
• Increased cost-effectiveness and savings from fewer adverse drug effects and the ability to customize Avel eCare Pharmacy services to your facility’s needs

Our content is evidence-based and updated regularly based on the latest clinical guidelines. It is developed, constantly evaluated and updated based on user data and feedback, and maintained by a team of physicians, writers, and editors. Our Interview is available in English or Spanish with medically-certified translation, and all of our content is created at a 4th-grade reading level, removing medical jargon and using images as easy guides. 

Because we've been building and refining our clinical content for more than eight years, improving with reviews and feedback from clinician leaders at some of the top health systems in the country, we've built a clinical content engine that cannot be replicated.

One of the Lead Clinicians at one client shared that he reviewed all of our content in detail and was "extremely impressed", sharing that it would "take thousands of hours of clinician time to even attempt".

Robust, Proprietary Clinical Content

With Bright.md, your providers are reviewers of content, not creators. Our evidence-based content containing 29 unique interviews, and treating 130+ diagnoses, is developed and maintained by a team of board-certified physicians to keep yours focused on delivering care to patients.  

Self-Service Administration

Respond quickly to changing demands with real-time access to custom care routing, interview activation, and more.

Bi-directional EHR Integration

Drive long-term care delivery efficiencies with asynchronous visits that are integrated into your clinical operations workflow.

Bright.md uses standard HL7 protocols and FHIR APIs to sync information that decreases the administrative burden on providers, while creating easy access for patients.