A new option for patients to redeem electronic prescriptions is launched.
From Saturday this should be possible in the first pharmacies with the health insurance card. Insured persons must insert the card into a reader in the pharmacy, a PIN is not required. According to the Federal Ministry of Health, 80 percent of pharmacies are expected to offer this new way by card by the end of July. So far, e-prescriptions can be redeemed using an extra smartphone app or a printed QR code instead of the usual pink slip of paper.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is counting on the rapid spread of the new procedure. “The e-prescription makes the prescription and dispensing of medication safer, faster and easier,” the SPD politician told the German Press Agency. In the beginning, use will start slowly because the practices have to get used to it. “With the new redemption method via the insurance card, however, the e-prescription becomes practical and standard.”
The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians recently warned against false expectations that e-prescriptions could be issued in all medical practices from Saturday. It is planned that a legal obligation to do so will be introduced.
According to the ministry, the e-prescriptions are stored on a central server (e-prescription specialist service) in the protected data superhighway of the healthcare system. When the insurance card is inserted, the pharmacy is authorized to call up and redeem e-prescriptions for the respective insured person from there. No e-prescriptions are stored on the insurance card, so no technical adjustments are necessary for the cards, it said. The options via e-prescription app or paper printout could also continue to be used.
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