The operation of the "electronic prescription" system, which digitizes drug prescriptions and exchanges online between medical institutions and pharmacies, will begin sequentially nationwide from the 26th.
The aim is to advance the digitalization of medical care and avoid duplication of the same medicine and prescriptions that do not mix well.
To get a prescription for medicine, you usually need to have a medical institution issue a paper prescription and bring it to the pharmacy.
However, since prescriptions are issued by each medical institution, there have been cases where the same medicine is prescribed by different hospitals, and cases where the elderly take duplicate medicines have become an issue.
For this reason, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to digitize prescriptions and introduce a nationwide system that exchanges information such as drugs taken by patients between medical institutions and pharmacies online.
As a result, patient data will be centrally managed, and medical institutions will be able to accurately grasp the history of drug prescriptions, etc., which will improve safety, such as avoiding duplicate prescriptions and the combination of drugs that do not mix well. It is hoped that this will lead to proper medication administration.
``Electronic prescriptions'' will start operating at 154 hospitals and pharmacies in 30 prefectures from the 26th, and will begin to operate sequentially as soon as preparations are completed at a total of more than 30,000 facilities nationwide that have completed the procedures for introducing the system. It is expected.