As of: January 29, 2024, 11:12 a.m
By: Tobias Gehre
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Pharmacist Julia Quintus from the Amper pharmacy in Fürstenfeldbruck has been working with the e-prescription since the beginning of the year.
Your boss Thomas Benkert still sees potential for optimization.
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It should be safer, simpler and advance digitalization in healthcare.
However, the so-called e-prescription, which has been available in the district since the beginning of the year, still has some pitfalls.
Doctors and pharmacists see potential for improvement.
Fürstenfeldbruck – The pink slip is history.
Anyone who is now prescribed a medication by a doctor receives a so-called e-prescription.
The doctor saves the name of the drug in a cloud, and a “key” is stored on the health card with which the pharmacy can download the data from the cloud.
So much for how the new e-prescription works.
Thomas Benkert, pharmacist from Mammendorf and President of the Federal Chamber of Pharmacists, considers the innovation itself to be a good innovation.
He is already using the system – as are around 90 percent of his colleagues in the district.
And the majority of prescriptions already come electronically.
Benkert estimates that it is around 70 percent.
Childhood illnesses
But there are still teething problems.
Problems arise, for example, if a small detail is missing from the prescription - such as the doctor's number.
“Until now, you could ask for them over the phone and enter them later,” explains Thomas Benkert.
This is no longer possible with the e-prescription.
The doctor would have to reissue it completely.
There are also problems now and then with the signature of the new e-prescriptions.
Until now, the doctor has traditionally signed on paper.
The e-prescription requires an electronic signature.
Some doctors would sign the morning's collected prescriptions all at once during their lunch break.
If a patient comes to the pharmacy before then, they have to be sent away again.
In addition, the doctor cannot prescribe certain things via e-prescription.
For example, a diabetic gets insulin via the new route, but test strips and needles still have to be on a paper prescription.
The same applies to narcotics such as opiates or cannabis preparations and to non-prescription medicines.
The Eichenau general practitioner Dr. reports that there is a lot of need for information about the innovation.
Alexander Wiedemann.
“Many older patients in particular have problems with this,” says Wiedemann.
Younger patients, however, would accept the e-prescription well.
More insight
However, the doctor points to a completely different possible problem for his profession.
“The health insurance companies gain much more insight into doctors’ prescribing behavior.” This could become a problem for doctors.
Because if a medication does not match the diagnosis exactly as specified, the health insurance companies could take recourse against the doctors.
They would then simply keep part of the fee.
The doctor would have to cover the cost of the medication.
That has already been the case until now.
However, digitalization would give cash registers much better control options.
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Wiedemann sees this as a point that could dissuade young doctors from setting up their own practice.
“That then leads to a practice shortage.”
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