I spotted these a day or so ago.
First we have this:
Men’s health provider moves to e-scripts
To capitalise on the government’s push towards electronic scripts, online men’s sexual health provider Pilot has confirmed it is moving to e-scripts later in the year.
The self-titled “health navigator for Australian men” would look to align its e-script offering with one of the Active Script List platforms. My Script Launch, the first ASL compliant with the Department of Health, was recently activated in Tasmania and is expected to be rolled out across the country in May 2021.
ASL was on track to trump the token model launched in May 2020 as it provided GPs and pharmacists access to a shared cloud-like list of prescriptions for the patient. This would be especially helpful for people on regular medication who frequented multiple pharmacies, with QR codes and paper prescriptions to become things of the past.
“Because the ASL provides approved healthcare professionals with a shared view of prescriptions available for dispense, clinical decision-making should be more fact based, leading to a reduction in prescribing and dispensing errors,” the Pharmacy Guild of Australia said.
Chemist2U, an online business offering same-day delivery of pharmacy drugs to homes, had been working with e-scripts since February 2021, with 5–10% of its patients adopting the technology.
“The real value of the technology will come into play when the ASL component is active,” Dr Matthew Cullen, CEO of Chemist2U, told Wild Health. “The e-script infrastructure will enable innovative solutions to be developed that will be of great benefit to polypharmacy users in helping them to manage their health.”
E-script integration would mean Pilot’s patients could opt to never visit a GP or pharmacy in person, or even talk to a GP online. Patients seeking help for sensitive issues such as premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction and hair loss would fill out questionnaires before texting with a GP for a standard consultation time period. Treatment would come in the form of subscription-based packages.
“Sometimes there is medication involved and sometimes there is advice or direction to seek treatment from a physical clinic,” Pilot co-founder Tim Doyle told Wild Health.
Some professionals in the sexual health industry, such as Dr Emma Boulton, Director of Clinic 66, were sceptical of Pilot’s ability to adequately address vulnerable patients’ needs.
More here:
https://medicalrepublic.com.au/mens-health-provider-moves-to-e-scripts/46258
Second we have:
Chemist Warehouse preparing for e-prescription rollout
Chemist Warehouse is set to tap ASX-listed cloud-based communications provider, Whispir, to fulfil Australia’s biggest e-prescription rollout.
The link between the two complements the federal government’s funding on telehealth services during the Covid-19 pandemic and will ensure ill people receive their medication in a contactless way - first by not having to attend a doctor’s clinic, and second by getting their prescriptions fulfilled and delivered by Chemist Warehouse.
The chemist chain fills about 50 million prescriptions across Australia each year and is expecting that number to jump by 30 per cent as more Australians adopt the digital service via Whispir.
“It seemed strange that in 2020 we would still be dependent on a piece of paper to fill a prescription, and we needed a way to immediately bring the e-prescription service to our customers during the pandemic with a sophisticated level of functionality,” says Chemist Warehouse managing partner and director Mark Finocchiaro.
The service connects with the electronic prescription a doctor sends after a telehealth consult. Whispir chief executive Jeromy Wells said a patient could forward a “token” from that prescription to a chemist, in this case a Chemist Warehouse store, and then that pharmacy will complete fulfilment via Whispir’s automated SMS service.
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So from the quite small to the very large we see pharmacists on the move to adopt!
Will be good to see more stats on adoption rates as they become available!
David.
4 comments:
Wow - escorts and a big vision for Australia’s future digital health ecosystem - including a mobile gateway for API access! Who would have thought that overtime investments in standards and terminology would deliver results?
Good news on escripts, sometimes the simplest of things provide value to consumers.
including a mobile gateway for API access - really??? Oh I get it, take down things so you can reintroduce them a few years later and claim progress and innovation - sprinkle API in there to sound technical and hip?
Wow - escorts and a big vision G. Carter, which Minister is that from? Or was it taken from D J Trump’s manifesto?
Big Vision sounds good, but as with all complex problems, the devil is in the detail.
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