In article <[log in to unmask]>, Mike Wells
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>Why not use the belt & braces approach. By all means send an
>e-script via your buildings internal network. But give the patient a
>piece of paper with the script on it, which the dispensing physician
>signs. That way you have the benefits of an automatic capture of
>the e-script if it is dispensed within the building, as well as the
>legal(?) requirement for a signature on a document. It also covers
>my earlier problem of the patient who wanders off to a random
>pahrmacist to get the prescription fulfilled; but leaves you with
>the problem of unfulfilled e-scripts sitting in your system. Oh
>well, you win some, you lose some!
They are less likely to wander off as all the chemists in the town are
represented in the dispensary... and I suppose if they did, they could
have the presc. made up at the outlying chemist,, as the dispensary
would hold the Prescription E-mail.
I wonder if some kind of hard encrypription would satisfy the legal
aspects? If the encrypted Rx could only have emanated from a particular
GP, would the pharmacist accept that as a reasonable excuse to dispense
until a weekly signed batch arrived?
--
Chris Pearson
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