ePrescription to be introduced in Romania on June 1st

Newsroom 21/03/2012 | 13:54

ePrescription will be introduced starting with June 1^st as announced by Lucian Duta, the president of the National House of Health Insurances (CNAS).

“We have obtained European non-reimbursable funds in total value of approximately EUR 40 million for the implementation of ePrescription and the electronic file. Beginning with June 1, we will kick-start the ePrescription system that will function in parallel with the one at the moment,” said the president of the CNAS.

ePrescription will be part of an integrated platform called The Informatic Platform of Health Insurances, which aims to create a unitary informatics administration, with the beneficiaries being doctors, pharmacists and patients.

ePrescription is meant to do away with fraud in the system which currently is estimated at EUR 200-300 million, said Duta.

This will function for a period in parallel with offline prescription.

“Of course, we need a certain period in which both prescriptions will function in parallel. Moreover, we believe that doctors who are willing to make electronic prescriptions should be stimulated, as it happens in other countries and we are asking CNAS to find solutions for the payment of the card reading devices, because they are expensive,” said Doina Mihaila, president of the Federation of the Family Doctors in Romania.

Business Review has recently published an article about the informatization of the Romanian healthcare system.