They insist that the new system beginning to apply tomorrow Saturday (18.01.2025), is expected to bring malfunctions and disturb patients. “Doctors should be trained before the implementation of the new system of prescriptions should begin to avoid the inconvenience of insured persons,” says the ISA in a communication, while Health Minister Adonis Georgiades noted that no further extension will be given, as the harmonisation of our country with the pan-European HMVO system (the Medicines Verification Agency) is a European imperative. CORVERSE “ISA in relation to the new electronic prescription system that starts at the request of the IDICA, on Monday 20 February 2025, notes that it has requested that its application be postponed until doctors are trained in the new data. The information conference organized by the ISA a few days ago highlighted the problems of malfunctioning the system. Despite the positive acceptance by the Minister of Health, of the ISA’s request for an extension of the implementation of the system, the ICCA insists on its immediate implementation, setting 9 February as the final date for interconnection with the European system. However, we reasonably wonder why the completion of the programme that has been pending for a two-year period has been delayed and the scope for the training of the medical world has not been given. It should be noted that the EDICA informed doctors about the new system a few days before Christmas!”, says the ISA in its communication. The ISA informs that doctors bear no responsibility for the inconvenience of the insured, stresses that it will make available all its powers and infrastructure to assist the IACI in the training of doctors if it so wishes, and asks its members to post the following inscription in their Medical Departments. CORVERSE “We ask colleagues to post to their medical services a communication informing that for delays and inconvenience, it is not the doctors’ fault but the new prescription system of the EDICA,” concludes ISA. Source: Iatropedia.gr
New prescription system: Doctors are denied responsibility for the suffering of patients
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