David More wrote: > _http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Way-cleared-for-electronic-scripts/2006/07/28/1153816347647.html_ > > /*Way cleared for electronic scripts*/ > July 28, 2006 - 6:19AM > Federal and state health ministers have cleared the way for doctors to > prescribe drugs electronically, ending the days of the doctor's scrawl. > Under the changes, doctors will transmit prescriptions by email and > pharmacists will be able to receive the information after swiping the > patient's Medicare card. Presumably requiring a HeSA dongle. The only place that seems to have good dongle penetration is the Sunshine coast. (Must be the holiday atmosphere.)
> Fairfax newspapers report health ministers saying the new system would > eliminate about 400,000 adverse drug incidents a year, triggered by > poorly handwritten prescriptions. Well it won't stop adverse drug reactions unless the medication list is stored in the one place. Now which place is that again? > But the proposal has met opposition and concern by doctors and > pharmacists. > Australian Medical Association president Mukesh Haikerwal said while > doctors welcomed electronic prescriptions, they needed convincing the > system was secure. > President of the Pharmacy Guild, Kos Sclavos, also said he was > concerned about the risk to privacy, adding the system needed to be > designed to ensure patients could have a prescription dispensed at a > pharmacy of their choice. > Mr Sclavos said if doctors were allowed to direct prescriptions to > particular pharmacists, there would be a risk of "channelling" deals > to increase business. I would have thought the pharmacists would have been keener. It stops them having to enter the details for lodgement with the PBS. If there is a centralised database, I would have thought the druggies would be opposed since it will turn off their supply. If there is a centralised database, I would have though the patients would be opposed because it will tighten the 21 day rule even further > Pharmacists also disputed the ministers' claims about reducing > mistakes, arguing most prescriptions were already computer-generated > and only a small number of doctors still wrote them out by hand. Yes, there is that. David
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