Thread: A favour please- Electronic Scripts- Covid 19

We have electronic script system in new zealand set up last week ,operational yesterday ,dr creates it ,looks at list of pharma ies who have provided their email addess, electronicall crwated and sent pharmacy gets email, open up ,print on your own paper looks like normal script and legal and paid for ,not bad for a little backward country eh..also accepred fax scripts as legal copies since 1st march so less paper handling and stress for everybody...

"TheCommonwealth Department of Health recently issued factsheets on interimarrangements for prescriptions for supply of medicines stating that aprescriber can send a clear copy of a prescription (a digital image such as aphoto or pdf including the barcode where applicable) to a patient’s pharmacy ofchoice via email, text message or fax.

This arrangement can only be given effect in Queensland if changes are made tothe Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 (HDPR). Currently, a validprescription must be presented in its original form, by fax or by telephone(and in the latter two cases, the prescriber must give or post the originalprescription to the pharmacist within seven days). A digital image of aprescription is not a valid prescription in Queensland.

Queensland Health is exploring regulatory options to enable a digital image ofa prescription to be sent in accordance with the Commonwealth arrangement. Inthe meantime, prescribers are reminded that prescriptions can only bepresented to pharmacists in their original form, by fax or by telephone (again,followed by the paper prescription in the latter two cases)."

The latest from Qld Health.
Cheers,
Randy