Kolkata: Prescriptions by doctors in all state-run medical colleges and hospitals in Bengal will soon be typed out and not hand-written.
The state health has decided to launch the first phase of implementing e-prescription from 900-plus primary health centres across the state. Later on, it will be extended to medical colleges and other hospitals. The health department has asked all districts to nominate a nodal officer for the purpose.
“We have identified the health units from where the first phase of e-prescription will be launched and necessary hardware has been shared,” said a health official.
All the identified hospitals have been asked to complete the process of implementation by June 30. Training will be imparted by the health department’s IT cell in the meantime.
Officials said, going digital with the prescription will make it easier to generate and maintain data that include disease profile, patient medical history record and usage of generic drugs.
Most private hospitals in the city now use e-prescription. E-prescription is already in place in some teaching hospitals like SSKM in departments like gastroenterology along with a few hospitals in districts like Howrah. But officials said this was only in bits and pieces and there was the need to digitise it across all departments of all government hospitals.
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