Goodbye recipes and prescriptions on headed paper. Goodbye incomprehensible handwriting. Within a few months, general practitioners will no longer give citizens the names of the drugs to be collected at the pharmacy but everything will be digitized.
The announcement was made by Renzo Turatto, Head of the PA digitization and innovation department (close collaborator of Minister Brunetta, photo below, ed), present in Genoa at the presentation of the Report on innovation in the Italy of the Regions.
«Despite what the newspapers have written, the process of digitizing medical certificates has started well. The next step will be the prescription and health record. As for the prescriptions we are ready. The platforms are there and they work. It's just a matter of setting in motion and organizing a huge machine that involves hundreds of thousands of people, including doctors and pharmacists». How will it work? «The citizen will go to the doctor and instead of a prescription he will receive a code, a small number, to present at the pharmacy which will then deliver the medicine. I repeat, everything is ready and this innovation will also start within a few months. Healthcare - concluded Turatto - is one of the relevant points of innovation because the savings are enormous».
February 21, 2011 – Beppe Risso
