Pharmacy Daily | MediSecure joins NPDR

THE MediSecure prescription exchange has signed a commercial agreement with the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) to integrate with the National Prescribing and Dispense repository (NPDR). The NPDR is a key repository in the national eHealth infrastructure and will store medications information including prescription and dispensing data for consenting Personally Controlled e-Health Record (PCEHR) registered patients. “MediSecure has identified the current obstacles to collection of a patients’ medicines information at each point of care as an impediment to better health outcomes,” said MediSecure ceo Phillip Shepherd. “MediSecure is able to handle the data collection issue technically and through the existing MediSecure Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions presence on the majority of medical practitioner’s desktops, MediSecure can securely encrypt and transfer patient’s medications information along with the crucial patient consent”, he added. Medisecure has had the technology and infrastructure to handle Australian Standards based secure medicines messaged since 2009, and the NPDR has been designed to populate the medicines information into the consumer’s PCEHR. “The next step is to have full engagement from all clinical and dispense software vendors so that over time prescriptions and dispensing information for consenting consumers can be captured and placed in the NPDR and the consumer’s PCEHR. “A comprehensive medicines record will lead to better clinical decision making at the point of care and improved consumer health outcomes,” Shepherd said.

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