patient digital drug record underway
Filed in archive News by Gloria Gamat on February 15, 2006

Pharmacy officials announced Monday that doctors in some U.S. states will now be able to view a comprehensive electronic history of a patient's medication use as part of an effort to move the nation to digital health records.
With a patient's permission, a physician will have online access to all the medicines he or she has been prescribed, dosages and whether prescriptions are being filled and refilled.
The information will be supplied to doctors from pharmacies via the SureScripts network, founded in 2001 by two pharmacy industry associations.
SureScripts (a joint venture of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores) plans to launch the new service starting April 1 in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Nevada, Tennessee, New Jersey and Florida, and to have it running in at least 10 states by year end. It will be free for doctors and pharmacies.
It is important to know all the medicine a patient takes to avoid potentially dangerous drug interactions
. Probably starting this summer after steps to ensure privacy and security are completed, patients will then have access to their own information. President Bush has set a goal of having fully electronic medical records for most Americans by 2014. The announcement above is the latest step toward digital health records, which are promoted as a way to reduce costs and improve health care.
Source: [CNN Health]
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