'MyPrescription' is a pilot project launched by the Directorate of Health, an administrative body under the Ministry of Health and Care Services for digital prescriptions. When the patients need a prescription, their doctors send it to a central database via their computer. The only thing the patients need to do to have the medicines delivered at the pharmacy, is to provide their social secu- rity number to the chemist. In order to access it, patients need to prove who they are by means of an electronic identity (eID) provided by Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi). Electronic ID with the highest level of security makes it possible to send sen- sitive health information while making sure that it cannot be read by unauthorised persons. Moreover, patients can access a secure web service - MineResepter.no - where they can find useful information on their ongoing prescriptions; they can see part of the prescription and check how long it is valid. It is worth nothing that the pages have been made accessible to the blind and visually impaired. For information: log on to https://www.mineresepter.no/startside_en.html Compiled by: INFORMATICS TEAM
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Norway launched Digital Prescription
From October 2010 • Informatics, National Informatics Centre