Digital Health

The Digital Health Guidelines for Pharmacists describe the professional obligations of pharmacists when interacting with digital health systems in performing their professional clinical roles. These guidelines provide guidance on expected professional practice when

using digital health systems, so that pharmacists can provide optimal patient outcomes, while meeting legal and ethical obligations relating to data access and stewardship. The guidelines should be used as a tool to support practice and professional decision making, and ensure that patients’ needs, beliefs and preferences are met. They can be used as an educational resource to inform quality assurance processes, and provide support when resolving legal disputes and ethical dilemmas.

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The Digital Health Guideline Supplement: Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) describes the professional, regulatory and ethical obligations of community pharmacists when performing their professional clinical roles and interacting with the RTPM system.

These guidelines provide advice to pharmacists on expected professional practice when using the RTPM system, in order to provide safe supplies of monitored medicines to consumers, while continuing to meet legal and ethical obligations relating to data access and stewardship.

The guidelines should be used as a tool to support practice and professional decision making, and ensure that consumers’ needs, beliefs and preferences are met. The guidelines can be used as an educational resource to inform quality assurance processes and provide support in meeting legal requirements and ethical considerations.

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Electronic prescriptions are a digitally enabled option for medication management in Australia. Electronic Prescriptions allow people to manage prescriptions electronically, increasing convenience and improving medication safety.

For your pharmacy electronic prescriptions:

• Increases medicine safety by reducing prescribing and dispensing errors
• Improves efficiency in prescribing and dispensing medicines
• Removes the need for handling and storing a physical paper prescription
• Supports digital health services such as telehealth services to ensure continuity of patient care
• Provides an opportunity to protect community members and staff from exposure to infectious diseases such as COVID-19
• Maintains patient privacy and integrity of personal information

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