After the arrival of the pandemic and the health emergency during 2020, the Argentine Congress approved the law that allows the development and use of digital medical prescriptions.
The legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires issued an opinion that favors the project of the electronic medical prescription, for the prescription of medicines, laboratory studies or specific treatments. It was based on Law 27,553 approved by the national legislature in July 2020.
The legislation details that the electronic medical prescription will be used for "all prescriptions, medical, dental or other health professionals legally empowered to prescribe, in the respective fields of health care and public or private pharmaceutical care, who carry out their activity within of the city territory.
The Law that seeks to be applied in the Argentine capital, has the direct support of Law 27,553, which regulates the use of this type of electronic and digital prescriptions, as well as telecare platforms.
“This bill aims to advance in the improvement and modernization of the health system. The digital medical prescription is a tool that will improve patient care and reduce bureaucratic procedures,” explained legislator Inés Gorbea.
The project contemplates the following terms: electronic prescription, which is any indication of treatment, whether pharmacological or not; and the digital prescription that is designed in a specific digital prescription system, and has the digital signature of authorized personnel.
The city government will dictate how the periods will be developed to achieve the total adoption of the digital prescription and what the approval of this law entails.
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