Private medical prescription Audit

Homologación receta médica privada y telemedicina

Private medical prescription Audit

As the first and only electronic private medical prescription auditor that has approved a telemedicine and prescription solution in Spain, I liked this post in Diario EL PAÍS where the potential of telemedicine and the risks involved https://elpais.com /economia/2020-05-09/las-zonas-oscuras-de-la-telemedicina.html In it he makes a brief summary of the state of the art of telemedicine and ends up talking about the problem of the electronic prescription, resolved by Homologation private medical prescription that is already available from the Organization of the Collegiate Medical Organization WTO

Private medical prescription approval

I will try to explain the problems and advantages from the point of view of the patient, doctor and pharmacist in the pharmacy office of requiring the use of an electronic private prescription solution in order to be able to treat, prescribe and dispense the medication in question.

Patient point of view

The patient who needs to be treated electronically must understand the need to use a tool that has the approval of the WTO for multiple reasons. I want to explain some of them that seem fundamental to me:

A week ago I was interviewed for the preparation of a document and report on telemedicine and they asked me what my opinion was about using WhatsApp to be attended by a doctor. Let us understand that if we do not use a system approved by the WTO there is no trace of the prescription, we cannot assure that the doctor is who he is, there is no traceability that the pharmacy gives me, the privacy policy of my information is not informed and if I have some legal or other problem you probably cannot claim.
In non-approved software, the pharmacy may not accept the prescription; moreover, it may reject the prescription completely. In addition there is a high level of confidentiality so that your recipe is left with a maximum level of privacy.
The signature of the recipe, essential for it to be registered, not be altered and may be valid before third parties, is not produced. We are before a document without legal value.

Doctor’s point of view

The homologation of the electronic private medical prescription is based on the Royal Decree 1718/2010 where it specifies all the characteristics and requirements that the private medical prescription, on paper or digital, must meet, being currently mandatory. I am currently approving more than a dozen solutions that allow the doctor to prescribe through a secure computer solution. Beyond the obligatory nature of Royal Decree 1718/2010, I will name three practical advantages that the use of this type of solutions approved by the WTO brings to the doctor:

Use of an updated vademecum, patient registration, control of prescriptions and treatments that we have made for the patient, control of allergies, automatic restrictions on narcotic drugs.
Automated delivery to the patient of the electronically signed prescription with a maximum legal value and traceability. We are talking about the complete digitization of the prescription and follow-up processes for prescriptions.
Automated communication of the prescription to the pharmacy.

Pharmacist’s point of view

The pharmacist, as one of the key links in the process of telemedicine aimed at prescribing medications, should encourage the use of approved digital medical prescription software (such as REMPE, the only one to date where I was fortunate enough to be its auditor) . Among the many advantages, I will name some of them:

Access to the active medication sheet only with the patient’s ID.
Digital consultation of the dispensations made.
Digital communication with the doctor, rectification of prescriptions, etc.
Conclusion approval private medical prescription and telemedicine

Telemedicine is here to stay. COVID19 is merely accelerating the process of adopting the digital and remote patient-doctor-pharmacist relationship. From my point of view everything happens through the use of secure digital solutions that comply with RD 1718/2010 and its latest update by the College Medical Organization of February of this year.

Luis Vilanova Blanco. Spain’s first electronic private medical prescription auditor

recetamedica@luisvilanova.es

911277300