To enhance the standards of millions of pharmacists in the country, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) has urged the Health Ministry to amend the Pharmacy Act to make CEP (continuing education programme) mandatory for registration and subsequent renewal under the Pharmacy Act.
The Bulgarian Health Ministry has officially launched the first electronic prescription in the new EU member state of Bulgaria. The Ministry has officially launched the pilot system for the Bulgarian electronic health card (eCard).
Sidney Taurel, CEO, Eli Lilly and Company called on the health care industry, medical community and U.S. government to work on a health information technology system to provide rapid and useful insights on the effectiveness of medicines while improving drug safety.
Accenture and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company have together launched the pharmaceutical industry’s first ‘pharmacovigilance’ center, in Chennai, India, to monitor safety of data collected on medicines.
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Planning Commission of India is planning to bring out a National database in the country to enable effective treatment of patients in all over the country.
Soon US doctors would be able to access free and web based electronic medicine prescribing software.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
e-Prescribing is the process of medication prescribing in an outpatient setting, using an ambulatory Computerised Physician Order Entry systems application linked with clinical decision support that can in addition electronically send prescriptions or prescription-related information directly with the pharmacies or pharmacy benefit managers
New Hampshire is going to become the first state to allow doctors, clinics and hospitals for using electronic prescription system by 2008. Government’s John Lynch’s Citizens Health Initiative, group of doctors, is leading the way of e-prescriptions.
General Practitioners in UK are benefited from GP-to-GP data transfer system, according to a new survey conducted for InPS (which supplies Windows-based clinical systems for Primary Care).
Uganda has become the first country in the world to benefit from a healthcare information system that manages, measures and monitors the distribution of Anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).
