Minister Brunetta with his girlfriend, Titti
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December 22, 2010 |
Between 5 and 6 billion in savings. This will be the result of the digitization of the doctor-patient-pharmacy prescription cycle. Minister Brunetta said this when presenting the Digital Administration Code, approved today by the CDM. And from February the penalties for doctors who do not send INPS certificates online.
22 DEC – “The end of the folders”. Minister Brunetta thus presents the new Digital Administration Code (Cad), definitively approved today by the CDM and which will oblige all public administrations to use exclusively digital systems to certify, communicate and archive their documents. A process that has already started, but which will be completed within two years, as foreseen in the document launched today.
For health, the steps relating to the Cups and the management of the electronic health record remain to be defined, while the digital medical prescriptions and online sickness certificates are already being created.
According to the forecasts of the ministry for the Public Administration, the digitization of the prescribing cycle, with the telematic sending of prescriptions from the doctor to the patient to the pharmacy, could produce savings of around 5-6 billion euros a year, equal to around 25% of pharmaceutical expenditure. In fact, electronic prescribing should improve the management of medicines, limiting waste due to expired medicines, and curb scams. Brunetta himself said that "the random self-certifications on exemptions" could produce, if unmasked, between 500 million and one billion euros in savings.
With regard to the online transmission of public employees' sickness certificates to INPS, Brunetta underlined that it will certainly produce considerable savings, considering that around 100,000 registered letters will be avoided every year. To date, the online certification system is uti
