New medication-related developments in The Hungarian Electronic Prescription System and other eHealth services
Acta Pharmaceutica Hungarica
; 90(2-3):47-48, 2020.
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in English
| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2033584
ABSTRACT
In all countries, where electronic health services such as e-prescriptions have been introduced, patient safety has improved and the standard of medical and pharmaceutical care has increased. ePrescription (eRecept) - launched in Hungary as well - has become the most used eHealth module of the EE SZT (National eHealth Infrastructure) by all healthcare providers in the past near 3 years. During the COVID epidemic emergency e-prescription system has been a huge help to patients, relatives and caregivers too. In this period the proportion of electronic issued prescriptions exceeded 90% of all prescriptions written. The e-prescription system contributes to the better and faster information of healthcare professionals, supports the well-based therapy decisions, helps preventing and eliminating medication errors. Adverse drug reactions (allergies, interactions, polypharmacy etc.) can be more easily identified with the daily use of this service. Less paper administration can increase the time and quality of patient counseling both at the doctor's and in the pharmacies. Medication adherence can also be simply monitored by pharmacist as well. After patient registration - using social security number (SSN / TAJ) -, written maximum 1 year earlier and/ or by other pharmacy dispensed prescriptions will be also downloadable soon from the central database. These functions and real time data contribute to the implementation of high-quality pharmacotherapy advising services in pharmacies as healthcare institutions, made in accordance with the specific standards and protocols. The new functions of the Patient Portal (e.g. Legal Representation) and mobile surfaces provide patients and their relatives access to follow their care process, prescriptions, labs, etc., already on their smartphone too. From the beginning of May 2020, serial-produced medical aids mostly sold in pharmacies, can be electronically issued. The full integration of all the medical aids may be completed next year in a separated module. A simple web-based prescriber (socalled miniHIS) has been developed for connected private doctors, who do not consult in institutions. Measured values of the (smart) medical devices can be uploaded into the personal data repository of the Patient Portal on a voluntary basis. Good measurement results of the blood pressure, sugar, body weight, etc. recorded here demonstrate therapy fidelity, providing feedback to the patient and professionals. Telemonitoring services can be build on this module, so the software can send alerts to the assigned doctor, pharmacist or family member. Keeping data protection rules strict, depersonalized pharmacotherapy data uploaded to the central eHealth database will be searchable soon for professional and scientific purposes.
sugar; adult; allergy; blood pressure; blood pressure monitoring; body weight; caregiver; conference abstract; coronavirus disease 2019; data protection; drug safety; electronic prescribing; epidemic; health care personnel; human; Hungary; identifiable information; medical assistant; medical device; medical record; medication compliance; medication error; patient counseling; patient safety; pharmaceutical care; pharmacist; pharmacy (shop); polypharmacy; prescription; relative; side effect; smartphone; social security; software; telehealth; telemonitoring
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Acta Pharmaceutica Hungarica
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2020
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