Now that we can use NZePS and send electronically there is room for some innovation.
Working from home leads to hassle with paper prescription manegement. Now that lots of our consults are virtual same applies at the office.
I;'ve installed Black Ice Printtoemail Server. Loaded up all the local pharmacies oin our global Office365 contacts. Voila, NZePS emailed directly from Medtech via the outlook mail box.
Problem solved!
Now,what do we do about ‘thou shall not email confidential information’. We know Hmael has been trying to solve this, and they have an elegant solution, but we all know we email information like this all the time. So that’s part of a whole topic on its own…
This one was a DIY job. If MT do one it will be only for MT customers. From what I gather Comporto working on one too, I imagine that will be cross platform.
Hi
I am happy to share our template for “electronic” prescription.
We have been using it for the past week and the pharmacies around town are more than happy to work with it.
As a precaution, I save every prescription as PDF (just go to Save As… and in the file type instead of Word, scroll to PDF) before sending it Prescription sample.docx (25.0 KB)
Our practice has been doing ePS for several years but the MCNZ information about what is a “system authorised for Signature Exempt Prescriptions by the Ministry of Health”. I use MedTech32 and pretty sure our system isn’t Signature exempt. Help around that please- I’m being asked by lots of GPs about this.
Ok, got it perfected I think. Use the SMTP server options in the application. Opens a separate window not dependent on outlook, so it s a lot lighter on the system not requiring another application to send. Imported file of pharmacies in Wgtn region into the application address book.
Another advantage is that by only having pharmacies in the address book no risk of it going to a non-health practitioner. So while an error in sending is not great and potentially a breach, the harm minimised by it going to someone bound by registered health practitioner standards.
Hey Andrew. Its running really well now. I’m running it as a trial, won;t pay the $ if comporto or Medtech come up with a good solution, but this is really good.
Am I right is saying the pharmacy still needs the PDF of the prescription because they still have to scan the barcode to complete the loop and draw down the prescription information from the central pharmacy server? I don’t know if I have a pharmacy address list for Northland- where did you get your nifty .csv file from? I will keep working on this. Are all your colleagues happy with the process?
Andrew
They need the barcode to do that. Once they have the barcode then yes, they just pull down the info from the NZePS server. Either patient presents it to them in person or traditionally its been printed, signed and faxed. Given no signature
needed this take out the print sign and fax steps, which all take time. This system is especially useful when the vast majority of our scripts are sent to the pharmacy, not picked up. SO the form of sending becomes key – as paperless and efficient as possible
please!
Yep, they need the barcode on the pdf.
We had an excel spread sheet that we had for when we set up out multipurpose copier/scanner/fax to email scripts after scanning. Some of the addresses were wrong, so a bit of cleaning up today. Staff all very happy with it EXCPET there
have been some emails not received. I can see that we got them all via the ‘copy to’ set in the configuration, so not sure what went on there. May have been because I was stopping and starting the service as I fiddled to get it right. Still one user on remote
who is not getting the same stings as the rest – no idea why!
We have set it up so that receptions script line gets a copy, we annotate the subject line with name and charge/no charge so they sort the billing, also if we get a query from pharmacy than can resend it in real time. Hope those gremlin
shake themselves out. Big load off reception, which is great as phones still red hot.
There’s a free 2 week trial on the software, so suck it and see! Happy my provider gave me admin rights to the servers and office365, means I can fiddle without back n forth with IT.
Thanks Kerry - will do now. Phew, been quite a week. In the meantime both you and MT have come up with solutions, so I’d suggest my peers go with that. Pretty pleased to have been first off the mark though, and I note MT using the same BlackIce solution that I found.
