Electronic prescriptions, commissioned starting Monday

Family doctors say they have not received yet the application to connect to the software of the National Health Insurance, but they will see how things go from July 2.

Starting Monday will be introduced the electronic prescriptions for prescription drugs.

Doctors will prescribe medication on electronic prescription but also classical, and from January 1 will prescribe only electronically.

The director of the National Health Insurance House, Marius Filip, explained what are the advantages of prescribing and issuing medicines on electronic prescription.

"The new system enables the fractional drug release from a recipe, an accurate and faster access to patient medication required, but also objective monitoring system expenditures for compensated medicines.

This project aims to directly improve the quality of medical prescription, but also the patient’s confidence in the health system. The new system will provide predictability of consumption and the necessary information for effective management decision makers, "said Marius Filip.

Doctor Marius Filip warned that prescription form must not be bent or crumpled in the bar code in order to be read in pharmacy.

If the prescription was issued in offline mode, the input and validation will be done at the pharmacy, broadcasted us Radio Romania reporter, Adriana Turea.

After receiving a copy of electronic prescription from the doctor, the patient will go to the pharmacy, where drugs can be risen only by prescription and personal ID and only within the county in which his doctor has a contract with the Health Insurance House.

The application has not arrived for general practitioners

General practitioners say they have not received yet the application to connect to the software house, but they will see how things go from July 2.

Marius Filip said that until October 1, the receipt is retrieved from the system by pharmacists.

Also until this date, doctors would have to equip offices with electronic software prescribing the prescription required.

According to CNAS estimations, in the first month of the introduction, approximately 10 percent of prescriptions will be prescribed in the new system, so that in two to three months to reach about 40-50 percent.

Marius Filip asked doctors to use this new prescribing to identify any faults and thus to be remedied.

Companies that provide the technical side sustain that there will be no problems in the system.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University