In the pharmacy, Italians say goodbye to paper prescriptions. From Tuesday XNUMX March, the new national electronic prescription comes into effect and all pharmacists must be able to trace electronically the co-payments and exemptions in force in the region of origin of the citizens. Doctors, for their part, have the obligation to connect to a computer system for prescriptions, the same visible to the pharmacist who delivers the medicines.
In reality, the card is not completely abolished, at least in this initial phase. As an information note from the Federation of general practitioners (Fimmg) explains, for now doctors still have to deliver a small memo to take to the pharmacy counter, a sheet that allows us to recover our prescription even in the event of system malfunctions or absence of Internet line. Then, with the system fully operational, this paper residue will also disappear.
“Behind the advantages of dematerialisation there is a downside – warns the national secretary of Fimmg, Giacomo Milillo -. Someone confused medical offices with those of Cafs, given the amount of personal data, ticket exemption codes, now also those of disbursement and appropriateness and anything else we will have to verify".
Among the advantages of the electronic recipe, on the other hand, are savings on the printing and distribution of old red recipes and control over the falsification of the recipes themselves or abuses linked to the theft of recipe books.
