Pharmacy Daily | New e-script incentives

Among the Agreement programs announcements last week was confirmation of a new incentive payment to eligible community pharmacies to boost the uptake of electronic prescriptions. The Electronic Prescription Scanning Incentive (ePSI) is an allocation from the existing Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP) budget in the Agreement to better drive the uptake and rates of scanning of electronic prescriptions. Under the ePSI, at least $800 will be payable to community pharmacies on meeting a target of 15% of original prescriptions electronically scanned from a Prescription Exchange Service (PES) by March 2014, and at least $1200 being payable based on meeting a 30% scanning target by September 2014. The measure will encourage more pharmacies to adjust their workflow to facilitate the scanning of barcodes on all electronic prescriptions, producing safer and more efficient dispensing for patients.

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