MedsASSIST rollout
March 18, 2016
PHARMACIES across Australia
will be able to access the Guild’s
new MedsASSIST real-time codeine
monitoring system at no charge
from later this month.
Guild President George Tambassis
told APP delegates the system
records and tracks pharmacy
provision of OTC codeine products.
Unlike Project STOP, MedsASSIST
is also a clinical decision support
system, assisting pharmacists to
identify patients who are at risk of
codeine dependence.
The system has been developed
as a response to the proposed TGA
rescheduling of codeine products,
with Tambassis saying the Guild
isn’t waiting for regulatory changes
to implement the system.
“We’re doing this because it’s the
right thing to do,” he said.
MedsASSIST is available to all
pharmacies, whether or not they
are Guild members, and will be
implemented nationally in the next
few weeks, Tambassis confirmed.
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