The strategy of electronic medical prescriptions in Chile aims to facilitate the prescription of psychotropic and narcotic drugs during the pandemic.
The Chilean Ministry of Health (Minsal) implemented a new medical prescription digitalization system, with the purpose of facilitating the prescription of medications during the health emergency. And also with the aim of streamlining the processes for access to medicines.
This proposal to digitize the Minsal was born thanks to a bill sponsored by the senate, which sought the modification of the health code to allow medicines to be delivered with copies of physical or digital medical prescriptions.
The platform where digital medical prescriptions will be issued is designed for doctors and pharmaceutical chemists. The system developed by the Minsal allows the validation of prescriptions for psychotropic and narcotic drugs. In addition, the platform will allow the prescription of medicines remotely.
The sereminenlinea.minsal.cl Platform has several verification steps, such as the Unique National Role (RUN) and the Unique Key, so that the pharmacist can generate an electronic medical prescription. And on the other hand, the prescriber, that is, the medical professional, only has to enter the platform with their credentials, write the word "digitalized" next to the signature of the prescription and later the image of the prescription will be sent to the patient's email . On the other hand, the user, when going to the pharmacy, must present his RUN and the prescription folio to obtain his medication.
Finally, the pharmaceutical chemist must enter the platform to confirm that the medical prescription has been dispensed in a pharmacy, and in this way it will no longer be valid in another establishment.
In this way, the Minsal facilitates the prescription and dispensing of medicines through a secure and reliable digital system.
