Electronic prescriptions will be trialled next year ahead of what could be a national rollout of the service.
Electronic prescription systems allow doctors to send prescriptions to pharmacists digitally. They are designed to reduce prescribing errors, saving pharmacists time and money, and give doctors better insight into how patients take medication. To read the full Computerworld article please click here.
To read about the e-prescription service Simpl developed for the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in 2008 please click here.