The concept of the ePrescription service is understood as the ordering of a prescription in software, the electronic transmission of that prescription from the Prescription provider to a Dispense provider, the electronic dispensing of the medicine and the electronic transmission of the dispensed medicine information from the dispenser provider to the prescription provider.
The ePrescription service is made up of electronic prescribing and electronic dispensing:
- ePrescribing is defined as prescribing of medicines in software by a health care professional legally authorized to do so, for dispensing once it has been
- electronically transmitted, at the pharmacy.
- eDispensing is defined as the act of electronically retrieving a prescription and giving out the medicine to the patient as indicated in the corresponding ePrescription. Once the medicine is dispensed, the dispenser shall report via software the information about the dispensed medicine(s).