It Really Looks Like Prescription Monitoring Can Make At Least A Significant Difference!

This appeared last week:8 December 2017Where are we at with real-time monitoring?Posted by Julie Lambert GPs will play a central role in the first serious attempt to stop doctor shopping and illicit use of pharmaceutical drugs on the Australian mainland.Under legislation passed on October 19, Victoria will have the distinction of becoming the first state to impose a mandatory real-time prescription monitoring regime, giving doctors, pharmacists and nurse practitioners ready access to a patient ’s prescription history.The initiative rides on the back of Tasmania’s successful DORA monitoring system, which has been in place since 2011. But the challenge for Victoria is to cover a population 12 times larger, and an expanded list of medications. Not to mention the problem of bordering juri sdictions that have yet to get on board with real-time monitoring.Under DORA, pharmaceutical drug-related deaths in Tasmania have plunged, while the toll in all other parts of the country has continued to... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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