Lto electronic medical prescription becomes definitive. Excellent news announced by the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci. He will finally save the so much time wasted waiting to see your doctor of the health insurance company to withdraw a request for medicines.
Electronic recipe becomes definitive
The revolution will affect both the white and the red recipe which from now on will reach the citizens directly via email or WhatsApp without moving from home.
Furthermore, another good news also comes for chronic patients. Lelectronic prescriptionIndeed, will be valid for one year and will allow you to stock up on medicines for 30 days of therapy, always on the basis of the doctor’s instructions.
The revolution will affect both the white and the red recipe which from now on will reach citizens directly via email or WhatsApp without leaving home (Getty)
The benefit for the chronically ill
A notable simplification for people suffering from chronic diseases, often elderly or with difficulty moving, who need to periodically take the same drug.
In fact, thanks to this standard, they will be able to take advantage of the double advantage of not having to go to the doctor repeatedly to collect the prescription and repeatedly to the pharmacy to collect the drugs.
Electronic prescription via email or Whatsapp
Fortunately, therefore, after a moment that had greatly worried patients and doctors of the health insurance company, in which it seemed that the electronic prescription had to be cancelled, the Government decided that the experimental measure introduced in 2020 to limit travel during the emergency linked to the pandemic and then extended from time to time, was to be made definitive and structural.
How does it work
The doctor records on the Health Card System patient and prescription data. The electronic prescription number (NRE) can be sent to the applicant by: e-mail as an attached file or by SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram or other smartphone application.
In this way, the patient will only have to go to the pharmacy, carrying the NRE code with it and the health insurance cardto buy prescribed medicines or go to the analysis laboratories if you have to undergo a blood test.
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