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The government wants to create a medication database. Here’s why
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The Independent
Second, the government plans to develop a National Medicines Record – an over-arching database to register and monitor all current prescriptions.
Some health-care practitioner and pharmacy bodies have criticised the online prescribing industry, in particular, for contributing to inappropriate prescribing and medication misuse.
My Health Record is a government-run platform providing a secure, online collection of a patient’s health information.
As a second step, the government says it will design and build a National Medicines Record.
This would be an overarching platform linked to My Health Record and other digital health systems, to register all current prescriptions.