Ireland Patient portal

Integrated eReferrals eHealthIreland’s National Patient Portal will facilitate patients in accessing personal health information instantly and securely. Goals: Implement a patient portal to facilitate the health service’s strategic objective of improving the quality of patient care and strengthening preventive care services. Engage patients and their family members in their health and healthcare through the portal. […]

At the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the initial PHR prototype offered military veterans a “virtual window” into their health record. The My HealtheVet Pilot afforded a unique opportunity for patients to access their complete health records, including primary care and specialty notes, discharge summaries, and laboratory and imaging results. The Centers for Medicare & […]

The 1177.se Health Portal was launched in Sweden in 1998. 1177.se (VÃ¥rdguiden) originated from the telephone number 117, used to call for health advice/services in Sweden. 1177.se web portal is a public service website where citizen scan access and search for information about illnesses, symptoms, and treatments, as well as finding out about healthcare in […]

What is a patient portal? A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to personal health information. Patient portals signal a change in the operation of general practices and have the potential to allow patients and general practice teams to interact in a more meaningful way. The goal of […]

What is e-Prescription in Australia? Electronic prescriptions are an alternative to paper prescriptions. To send and receive electronic prescriptions securely, a Prescription Delivery Service (eRX/Medisecure) must be enabled. Both electronic and paper prescriptions must comply with the relevant Commonwealth and State and Territory legislation requirements. Electronic prescriptions will not be mandatory. Patients will have a […]

The introduction of e-prescription was swift: development started in 2010, a pilot was run in October of the same year and the official launch was on January 24th 2011. By the fall of 2011 around 40% of prescriptions were covered, and by fall 2013 almost full coverage was reached. E-prescription was one of the initiatives […]

In the 1990s, NHS England recognized the potential for the digital delivery of health information and services. In 2001, the National Programme for Health IT (NPfIT) strategy included an ePrescribing service. Given the size and complexity, national rollout and implementation of ePrescribing was split into two releases. Each release consisted of a first testing phase […]

All GPs in the Netherlands use an electronic medical record management system, which includes a module to create prescriptions electronically called the Elektonisch Voorshrijf Systeem (EVS). Since 2014, prescribers are mandated to use the EVS to generate prescriptions. However, while regional networks exist, there is still no national system for the electronic exchange of prescription […]

E-Prescription stands for electronic prescription. When a doctor in Norway gives you a prescription, it is sent to a central prescription database. You can then collect the items from a pharmacy or bandagist anywhere in the country. How e-prescriptions work E-prescriptions work in the same way as paper prescriptions, and the doctor decides for how […]

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) (1993) required Medicare Part D to support an electronic prescription system, with a planned implementation date of April 2009. Over the course of 2008 and 2009, two acts incentivized the use of both ePrescribing and the electronic health record (EHR). In 2009, the Health Information Technology […]