Electronic prescribing provides an option for prescribers and their patients to have a digital prescription as an alternative to a paper prescription. Electronic prescribing is not mandatory, and patients and prescribers will be able to choose an electronic or a paper version of their prescription.
The Pharmacist Shared Medicines List (PSML) is a new clinical document type supported by the My Health Record system.
The PSML contains detailed information about medicines the consumer is known to be taking when the list was created.
Electronic Transfer of Prescription (ETP) involves the creation of an electronic message (alongside a legal paper prescription) which is transmitted to a prescription exchange service (PES).
Dispense Records are used to transfer details of a dispense record, in a format suitable for sharing within My Health Record.
Dispense Records in the Australian context
Electronic Prescribing - Technical Framework documents
These technical framework documents are provided to software vendors and demonstrate what will be required to enable electronic prescribing. These technical documents are:
By operation of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Establishing the Australian Digital Health Agency) Rule 2016, on 1 July 2016, all the assets and liabilities of NEHTA will vest in the Australian Digital Health Agency. In this website, on and from 1 July 2016, all references to "National E-Health Transition Authority" or "NEHTA" will be deemed to be references to the Australian Digital Health Agency. PCEHR means the My Health Record, formerly the "Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record", within the meaning of the My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), formerly called the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 (Cth).
