Open AccessCONCEPT AND PRACTICE OF ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION
Author(s) -
Jan Bruthans,
Jiří Kofránek,
Adam Vojtěch
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medsoft ...
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1803-8115
DOI - 10.35191/medsoft_2021_1_33_89_92
Subject(s) - interoperability , medical prescription , computer science , czech , process (computing) , code (set theory) , pharmacy , feature (linguistics) , world wide web , medicine , family medicine , linguistics , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , pharmacology , programming language , operating system
The simple definition of Electronic prescription (EP) can be metby different approaches as encoding the whole data of a prescription to a QR-code or a memory card. Also, the data can besent directly to a particular pharmacy. Still, a unified nationalsystem with central storage is the only way how to guaranteewide benefits – not only the basic ones but also the advancedsuch as exploiting the gathered data and using automated clinical decision support. The Czech Republic at present featuresa widely used national EP system for its development state-of--the art method of process modeling has been used. Most otherEU countries are endowed with a similar system, although fewexceptions (e.g., Germany with only a pilot phase) exist. Also,the interoperability of EP in the EU is still not widely developedwith only four countries with this feature.