if the pharmacy guild had their standards ready ( perhaps they do already?) then what is to stop us from having all the text on a prescription also printed on a barcode on that script.
then the chemists can scan it in when the patient brings the paper script to them. no more transcription errors. saves time. preserves choice of pharmacist. i presume barcodes can store that much text? -----Original Message----- From: Ian Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:55:20 +1100 Subject: [GPCG_TALK] electronic prescribing Wal Tracey wrote: > Stephen > At our last meeting with DOHA they confirmed this. Electronic scripts > will require legislative change of the requirement to sign the > prescription with a pen > They could not say how long this will take This is state law: nothing to do with the Feds. Seeing as we are still waiting for standard rail gauges after a century of federation, I'd get comfortable. It also requires a central respository, as otherwise patients are locked into the doctor's chosen pharmacy, for which the government has no interest in setting up. Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk Dr Hugh Nelson Helensvale Surgery Australia 4212 +61-7-55732122 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
