Healthcare providers will be able to access individual patients’ medication histories in real-time, the federal government pledged Wednesday, to reduce medication errors, adverse drug reactions or inappropriate use.
Health Minister Mark Butler said the government will update legislation to compel healthcare services to upload medicines information like prescriptions and dispensations, and their clinical contexts to My Health Record.
The mandatory reporting will apply to private online and telehealth prescribers, after …
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