Electronic Drug Prescription
ePrescription is based on the traditional prescription and dispensing process providing a better service to citizens and integrating every player in the new process.
Through an IT infrastructure that provides:
- New storage and information management technologies.
- Efficient network infrastructure.
- Data analysis and reporting technologies.
- Electronic authentication technologies.
- Cryptographic and data secure transmission technologies.
More about Electronic drug prescription.
Workflow description

Benefits
- The patient receives all the medication for his entire treatment directly from the pharmacy, without the need to go back repeatedly to the healthcare center to revew prescriptions periodically.
- Time and cost savings for both the patient and Health Organizations.
- In a single district where electronic prescription is implemented at nearly 100%, a decrease of 22,3% of the consultations have been observed.
- Extra time saved can be used to lengthen consultations: less consultation per day and more time dedicated to each patient.
- Electronic prescription User Database/healthcare card.
- Data exploitation for farmacy billing system.
- Specialized care system.
- Drugstore management POS application.
- Corporate LDAP drug database.
- Handling of Spanish drugs that require special approval ("visado de inspección").
- Email and SMS message sending system.
- Digital signature platform.
- Primary care system.
- Chronic patients and those who live far from a health facility are the ones who benefit the most from this system. At least 20% of chronic patient visits to obtain prescriptions will be avoided.
- Reduction in the number of prescriptions and dispensation errors.
- Availability of information for treatment.
- The pharmacist can easily inform the general practitioner of the treatment information that is relevant for the patient's health.
- Provides complete clinical, pharmacological pharmaco-economic information that is up to date at the time of prescription.
- Enables following up the adherence of prescribed drugs to the treatment as well as that of the patient.
- Ability to consult where and when the patient retrieved the drugs prescribed.
- Improved cost allocation thanks to an enhanced information system.
- Substantially improved fraud control by checking the patient's rights when dispensing medication through compulsory presentation of the patient's health card every time.
- Cost reduction by increasing the prescription of generic drugs.
- Cost cuts
- Efficiency
