Digital Prescription
What?
At the moment patients have to carry prescriptions on paper with them. This system has several weaknesses, for example it is easy to lose that paper or handwriting of the doctor may be unreadable. Electronic prescription solves these problems because all prescriptions are sent to a central database. When patient is in the pharmacy, the pharmacist receives the prescription from central database and there is no possibility that patient loses the prescription or it is unreadable.
Why?
- The system enables to monitor and manage issuing of prescriptions.
- The system will ensure an identical business-logic of medications and preferential prices.
- The system will ensure an orderly circulation of treatment information.
- The information system issuing a medication will receive a confirmation (for the benefit) from the Estonian Health Insurance Fund.
- The Estonian Health Insurance Fund will be provided with fast and accurate reporting.
- Doctors will spend significantly less time on issuing prescriptions.
- Pharmacies will spend significantly less time on issuing prescriptions.
- Doctors will get feedback as to whether the medication was actually bought out by the patient.
- The implemented system will protect the doctors from unforeseeable costs related to inaccurate use of subsidies.
- Patients no longer have to worry about carrying the paper prescription around nor losing their prescription.
- It will be easier to protect the prescription data.
When?
How?
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