Electronic prescribing can support patient safety and prescriber workflows by minimising errors and paperwork, while providing patients with flexible options for accessing their prescriptions. It also supports secure, real-time monitoring to reduce prescription misuse and lays the groundwork for ongoing digital health innovation and future services.
A token management tool such as Active Script List (ASL) can help enable patients (especially older patients with multiple medications), to manage their electronic prescriptions (eScripts) and reduce the workload associated with lost prescriptions.
Once the patient registers at their preferred pharmacy, eScripts and their repeats are automatically added to their ASL. Patients no longer need to keep track of each eScript token and can walk into any participating pharmacy to dispense their medicines.
Patients can choose for their medicines not to be added to the ASL at the point of prescribing and GPs can manage these requests via their clinical software.
Read about how both GPs and patients benefited when a Perth practice boosted its use of eScripts and ASL during a recent quality improvement activity in Practice Connect.
The WAPHA Digital Health team is also available to support practices with troubleshooting eScript issues. Email practiceassist@wapha.org.au.