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Operator playbooks, workflow deep dives, and provincial scope primers — written by the pharmacists, banner pharmacy leads, and operators who do the work every day.

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Blog · Kroll bridge

How Admin Clerk reads Kroll without an integration

Admin Clerk doesn't need an API to work alongside Kroll. We walk through the screen-reading bridge: what Admin Clerk sees, how it stays accurate, what it never writes, and why the absence of an integration is actually the feature.

Christine Lim · 9 min read · Apr 2026
Blog · Provincial scope

Provincial scope expansion: what changed in 2026

BC opened HRT prescribing to pharmacists. Ontario expanded MedsCheck Diabetes scope. Alberta added five conditions to APA. Saskatchewan expanded smoking cessation. Atlantic provinces aligned minor ailments. The 2026 scope changes, in plain language.

Diana Reyes, PharmD · 11 min read · Apr 2026
Blog · Customer

Whole Health rolls minor ailments to 38 stores

Whole Health Pharmacy operates 38 community pharmacies across British Columbia. Their VP of Pharmacy Practice walks through how they rolled minor-ailments prescribing across the fleet — what they kept, what they changed, and the team-side lessons.

Anika Tremblay, PharmD · 13 min read · Mar 2026
Blog · Workflow

Why pharmacist time is the real bottleneck

Every clinical-services rollout we see eventually hits the same wall: pharmacist time is the constraint, not patient demand. We walk through the three operator strategies that actually move the needle — task delegation, AI scribe, and Admin Clerk on the front line.

Christine Lim · 8 min read · Mar 2026
Blog · Privacy

Privacy-first AI for Canadian pharmacy

What "privacy-first" actually looks like under PIPEDA, PHIPA, HIA, and the alphabet soup of provincial privacy laws. Data residency, consent management, retention, audit trail, breach reporting — and what we actually do versus what most AI vendors promise.

Marcus Okafor, PharmD · 10 min read · Feb 2026
Blog · Admin Clerk

What Admin Clerk does in the first 7 minutes of a consult

We walk through every action Admin Clerk takes from the moment a patient books a minor-ailments consult to the moment the pharmacist sits down with them — consent, intake, symptom triage, Kroll context, OHIP / coverage check, and the briefing surface.

Diana Reyes, PharmD · 7 min read · Feb 2026
Blog · Banner

Notes from rolling MedMe to 250 stores

We've now run multi-month rollouts to two banner customers at 250+ store scale. Patterns we see in the first 90 days, what predicts adoption, and the four operational decisions that determine whether a banner-wide rollout sticks or stalls.

Christine Lim · 12 min read · Jan 2026
Blog · AI Scribe

What AI Scribe captures in a real minor-ailments consult

We recorded a real urinary-tract-infection consult with patient consent and walk through what AI Scribe captured, what the pharmacist edited, and what eventually wrote back to Kroll. The doc looked better than the pharmacist's own pre-AI notes.

Diana Reyes, PharmD · 9 min read · Jan 2026
Blog · Provincial scope

Ontario MedsCheck: the case for it being a clinical service, not a billing event

Ontario MedsCheck is paid like a billing event but designed like a clinical service. We argue operators who treat it as the latter (and document like it) end up with cleaner audits, happier patients, and better follow-up adherence — without changing the billing rate.

Marcus Okafor, PharmD · 8 min read · Dec 2025
Blog · Workflow

Vaccines as a clinical-services on-ramp

The pharmacy that bills 2,400 vaccines a year already has the workflow muscle for any other clinical service. Why we tell early-stage operators to start at vaccines and only then build outward into minor ailments and MedsCheck.

Diana Reyes, PharmD · 7 min read · Dec 2025
Blog · Customer

Pharmasave: how independents go banner without losing identity

Pharmasave is a banner of independents — every store is independently owned. We talk to three Pharmasave owners about how they adopted MedMe across the banner-coordinated workflows while keeping the independent operator's autonomy.

Anika Tremblay, PharmD · 10 min read · Nov 2025
Blog · Privacy

Why we keep all Canadian patient data in Canada — full stop

It's a small line in the contract that ends up making a big difference. Why MedMe's Canadian data residency is in-country only, what we actually mean by it, and the operator-side cost of vendors who say "it depends" on this question.

Marcus Okafor, PharmD · 6 min read · Nov 2025

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