Roadmap for mandatory electronic prescription
Accordingly, Circular 26 takes effect from July 1, and the regulation on mandatory electronic prescription will be implemented according to the roadmap.
Specifically, from October 1, all hospitals will be required to implement electronic prescriptions. And by January 1, 2026, all other medical facilities will also be required to do this.
Mr. Vuong Anh Duong, Deputy Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management ( Ministry of Health ), said that the prescription and drug sales systems will be connected. Patients who buy drugs will be controlled according to the prescriptions in the system. Which prescriptions are sold to where, which drugs are sold differently from the prescription, all can be tracked.
In fact, many hospitals now prescribe electronic medicine (Illustration: NP).
According to him, this is a huge step forward in controlling the sale of drugs without prescription, especially antibiotics.
The interconnection between the Electronic Prescription System and the National Drug Administration System is one of the key solutions to improve the effectiveness of drug use monitoring. When all prescriptions are updated synchronously, the management agency can promptly detect and handle drug abuse, prescription errors or sale of drugs without prescription.
For people, using QR codes on electronic prescriptions makes it easy to look up information about the drug, dosage, instructions for use, and treatment history. This is a useful tool that helps patients proactively monitor their medication use, contributing to increased transparency and safety in drug use.
In addition, the circular also has some new points such as adding mandatory information fields in the prescription such as personal identification number, citizen identification number, ID number or passport number of the patient.
In the spirit of electronic data interconnection, Vietnamese citizens providing personal identification numbers will not need to declare information such as gender, date of birth, and permanent address.
This is an important step towards synchronizing medical data with the national population database system. This helps reduce prescription time, limit errors and simplify procedures for both patients and medical staff.
“In the long term, this is also an important foundation for building a unified electronic health record, better serving the continuous health care and management of people's medical information,” Mr. Duong emphasized.
Prescribe medication only when absolutely necessary, avoid abuse
In addition, the prescriber needs to clearly state the quantity used each time, the number of times used per day, and the number of days the patient should use the medicine.
The Circular also updates new regulations according to the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023 (such as prescribing drugs when absolutely necessary, for the right purpose, safely, reasonably and effectively...).
At the same time, there are clearer instructions on handling addictive drugs, psychotropic drugs, and precursor drugs that have been given to patients but not fully used or the patient has died.
According to Mr. Duong, the prescription principle of “prescribing only when absolutely necessary” is actually stipulated in the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023. This is a general principle in medical examination and treatment. Practitioners only perform medical examination and treatment services, or prescribe when absolutely necessary, and must not abuse it.
In fact, the prescriber must base on the diagnosis, the patient's condition, and the prescribed documents as the basis for prescribing in the circular to prescribe safe, reasonable, and effective drugs.
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