The electronic transfer of scripts is close to becoming a reality -
there are two different groups now trying to sell the concept to the DH
and to GP system suppliers. The group I know most about is PharMed ( a
'not-for-profit arm of GEHE - who now own AAH Pharmaceuticals - one of
if not the largest wholesale drugs supplier). The system is designed to
allow the patient to identify the community pharmacist they wish to
dispense the drugs. The system also allow for information on actual
drugs dispensed as opposed to prescribed to be sent back the originating
practice. Digital signatures and encryption are integral elements of the
solution. PharMed are in discussion with most if not all GP systems
suppliers and the DH as we speak - or at least email!
Mark Treleaven
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Wells [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 January 1998 12:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Prescription Fraud
>
> Stuart wrote:
> > Subject: RE: Prescription Fraud
> LOTS OF SNIPPING
> > On Wednesday, January 14, 1998 2:28 PM, [log in to unmask]
> > [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> > > * which Pharmacy does the e-script go to? Or does the
> e-script go
> > > to some sort of clearing house? If it is the latter, we have some
> > > fairly challenging problems in controlling the security of a large
> > > data base, which almost by definition must contain the patient
> > > identitiy for each e-script.
> > > >
> > >
> > Would it not be possible for the presciber to have list of
> dispensing
> > chemists and ask the patient "Which Chemist are you going to?" -
> Click -
> > "Your presciption is at the chemist now"
> >
> > Stuart
>
> Perfectly possible. The problem then is that the patient MUST go to
> that specific pharmacy. In 99% of cases that is not a problem of
> course; but there will always be the patient who for some reason
> after leaving the surgery decides to go some other pharmacist, and
> who then strops up because he (it would usually be he, women are far
> too sensible) cannot do so. In theory the newly selected pharmacist
> could, of course, collect the script from the one to hwom it had been
> sent in the first place. But then the patient would probably have
> forgotten who that was.
>
> I am not being facetious; I am trying to pont out that as in all of
> these things, the devil is in the detail.
>
> Mike Wells
>
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> Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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