Electronic prescriptions for medicines under the Health Insurance Fund can are partially implemented in pharmacies, envisage regulatory changes published for public discussion, BNR reported.
The idea is that in the absence of a given medication, the patient should look for it elsewhere or wait for its delivery at the same pharmacy within 24 hours.
If only some of a person's prescribed medications are available in the pharmacy, the pharmacist can dispense them on the spot and the prescription will be partially filled. The rest of it must be completed within 2 working days, but no later than the date of its validity, the regulatory changes provide.
Medications can be re-dispensed at the same or another pharmacy that works with the Health Insurance Fund. The goal is not to interrupt patients' therapy, including when the pharmacy does not have enough packages of a given medicine.
It is also proposed to remove the restriction on one prescription to prescribe a maximum of three medications for up to three diseases.
The idea is to prescribe treatment through a single electronic prescription.
At the same time, a rule is introduced to prescribe up to three medicinal products for one disease, as laid down in the National Framework Agreement. The changes are expected to be approved early next month.