eMedication Management

Through e-Medication Management, prescriptions may be securely transmitted direct from the GP’s desktop to the dispensing pharmacy.

Medication information is then securely available in a wide range of healthcare settings from hospitals to community health centres and pharmacies.

This will result in an improved use of medicines and a reduction of the number of adverse drug events.

We are currently working with Australian healthcare professionals and software vendors to develop the national specifications and standards that will enable the shared use of medications information.

More benefits of a nationwide e-Medication Management system include:

More appropriate prescriptions
Because the e-Medication Management system can track what drugs’ a patient is currently taking as well as the drugs a patient has been prescribed in the past, doctors can be confident the prescription they write will work appropriately with the patient’s other medications.

More efficient dispensing
A pharmacist will no longer have to decipher handwritten prescriptions and will save time in dispensing medications because the required dosage and strength, as well as any other specific information will all be contained in the electronic script.

Greater empowerment of patients
Patients will also have access to details of the drugs they are currently taking and all the medication they have been prescribed in the past which gives them a greater sense of control over their health records.

Avoid hospitalisation or death due to adverse effects
Because doctors will be aware of all the drugs a patient may be taking, the opportunity to diagnose adversely affecting drugs will be dramatically reduced.