I Believe They Are Getting A Little Ahead Of Themselves With This One. Needs A Bit More Planning.

This article appeared a day or so ago.GP support for mandatory 'paperless' prescriptions Antony Scholefield | 23 June, 2017A call to phase out paper-based prescriptions has been backed by one of the RACGP's e-Health experts.Integrated electronic prescriptions should become mandatory for “any prescriber of a PBS-listed medicine, any pharmacist wishing to dispense a PBS-listed medicine”, according to a Federal Government review of the pharmacy industry.In its interim report, released on Thursday, the review says the current paper-based system is outdated and inconvenient, and inc reases the risk of adverse medical events.Instead, paper prescriptions should no longer be the "version of record", and pharmacists should be able to retrieve the electronic prescription without sighting a paper version.Dr Oliver Frank, a member of the RACGP expert committee for e-Health and Practic e Systems, says many GPs are uploading electronic prescriptions to exchange software such as eRx or MediSecure... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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