EPrescribing and Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions - hiqa.ie

EPrescribing and Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions: an International ReviewHealth Information and Quality Authority• Medicines Reconciliation – electronic systems for medicine reconciliation will allowclinicians to view a list of the most current medicines a patient has beenprescribed for comparison to medications dispensed.• NZ Universal List of Medicines – this is New Zealand's national list of currentregistered medications that has been prepared for universal use across the healthand disability sector.• NZ Medicines Formulary – the formulary will provide prescribers with online,standardised and up-to-date information about the use of medicines.• Medication aspects of other projects including eReferrals, eDischarges, sharedcare planning, and clinical data repositories (CDRs).The community trial of the NZePS began in March 2011 in Auckland. Initially theservice covered one GP practice management system vendor and one pharmacypractice management system vendor. Following the initial trial, NZePS has expandedto include all GP and pharmacy vendors and three to four more regions with nationalroll-out started in July 2012.In the first phase vendors developed and tested the initial version of the software.The solution included a central electronic repository for prescriptions, known as thetransaction broker, and a systems based on uniquely identifying each prescription viaa barcode printed on a paper prescription. The system enabled a prescription to begenerated with a unique number at the prescriber’s site and an electronic messagecontaining the prescription information to be transmitted from the prescriber’spractice management system to a transaction broker. At the time of prescribing, anelectronic message based on the HISO 10030.2 (20) standard is sent to the transactionbroker and a paper prescription is generated and signed by the prescriber. Thepatient is given the signed prescription which includes a barcode containing theunique number printed on the prescription. This is illustrated in Figure 3 below.Patients present to their chosen pharmacy with the prescription. A pharmacist mayprocess the request manually using the information provided on the prescription, orthey may use the barcode provided to retrieve the electronic prescription from thecentral server. Pharmacy systems are able to incorporate the patient and medicationinformation provided in the electronic messages.14