The event of so-called ePrescriptions will quickly make it doable for folks to have the ability to decide up their treatment at any pharmacy contained in the EU with out a paper prescription. The multi-lingual system is already being utilized in Finland and Estonia. Sensible Well being travelled to Tallinn to search out out extra.
A quick and easy course of
Estonia and Finland are linked in some ways. Simply by way of cross-border journey, tens of millions of individuals make the journey between Helsinki and Tallinn yearly. However the two EU nation’s ties go a lot deeper than that. Now each Estonians and Finns can decide up their prescribed drugs from a pharmacy, no matter which nation they're in.
That’s been made doable, because of an e-Prescription and e-Dispensation service arrange in 2019. Getting into a affected person's digital identification card, the pharmacist makes use of the ePrescription platform to test after which hand over the prescription.
"As soon as we're within the system, we see the listing of the prescriptions made for this particular person, and the system routinely interprets it to the Estonian language. So all the things is comprehensible for us," explains Pharmacist Aleksandr Vares.
Aleksandr says as soon as the prescription has been paid for, it takes a couple of minutes for the system to ship the data to the affected person's house nation. After that the prescription is both reimbursed instantly or the price of the prescribed drugs is diminished.
"It is doable to purchase nearly all prescription medicines, besides psychotropic, narcotic medicines and extemporaneous medicines, that are ready within the pharmacy," Aleksandr provides.
Cross-border healthcare
Estonia’s public IT company Tehik developed the e-Prescription system. Its personal expertise has been used to assist the European Fee to launch the European Well being Information Area. A undertaking which goals to dramatically enhance cross-border healthcare throughout the EU by means of the harnessing of affected person information.
The e-prescription system depends on the European eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure. The community gives continuity of look after folks travelling throughout Europe.
Two cross-border well being companies are presently being launched: ePrescription and eDispensation.
It features a abstract of a affected person’s medical historical past. The primary nations to begin utilizing the ePrescription and eDispensation system are Estonia, Finland, Croatia and Portugal. The plan is for different European nations to step by step be part of the system over the following few years.
"In the present day we do not take into consideration when travelling to have the roaming bundle, cellular bundle with my telephone. It needs to be as easy with cross-border e-health companies, that truly I haven't got to suppose to have the prescription or the paper with me. It should not be crucial. I simply ought to stroll into the pharmacy and present my ID and get the medication I need," says Tõnis Jaagus, head of Tehik's well being division.
Connecting totally different healthcare suppliers throughout Europe would require a excessive degree of safety and interoperability based mostly on frequent codes among the many member states says Artur Novek, Tehik's IT architect.
"We have to determine folks securely and in Estonia's case, we've got two methods to do this. There may be an ID card and their cellular ID, of their gadgets, like within the ID card there's a chip which comprises your personal key which identifies you to the system."
Sooner or later, cross-border well being companies in Europe needs to be much like cell phone roaming. The medical information and prescriptions of sufferers will comply with them when they're overseas, guaranteeing higher care and remedy.
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