Digitalisation in the health care system is progressing, as the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) will soon be able to cooperate with 40,000 doctors and many pharmacies throughout Germany with regard to its e-prescription project, as four other health insurance companies have now joined the project, which has already caused a sensation as a pilot project in Hamburg, among other places. DAK-Gesundheit, Barmer Ersatzkasse, Hanseatische Krankenkasse (HEK) and BIG direkt gesund Krankenkasse have already brought TK on board to soon be able to provide 26 million insured people, or 35 percent of all people living in Germany, with electronic prescriptions. The cooperation partners for software solutions for medical practices are the companies medatixxx and the smaller software service provider Medisoftware. Both work at present on the e-prescription solution of the TK and on other projects, in order to be able to supply in the future approximately 40,000 physicians in approximately 22,000 human medical practices, MVZ and ambulatory services, because medatixx belongs like Phoenix, also as ADG admits, to the Merckle group and cooperates also with eHealth Tec, which belong again to DocMorris and thus to the parent company to the rose group, so that the circle closes. Medatixx is the second-largest software provider for medical practices in Germany, with a market share of 27 percent. But it is not only doctors who are looking forward to the cooperation and the digitalisation of the prescription system. They are also working on being able to co-develop electronic prescriptions and integrate them into the daily routine of their practice, which offers many advantages. Satisfied integrated pharmacies are working with the pharmacy service providers Noventi, NARZ/AVN, ARZ Haan, DRZ and Pharmatechnik via the common interface set up by the TK on a qualitative expansion of electronic prescriptions so that in future there will be even greater drug safety with regard to the allocation function, clear legibility and one-time redeemability of e-prescriptions. Furthermore, pharmacists appreciate the unbreakable digital process chain from the issuing of the prescription through to billing. The patient is also a beneficiary in the system, however, because as an insured person of the TK and the other four health insurance companies, he is integrated into the system process via his smartphone and can redeem the prescription at the pharmacy using digital functions. For a so-called repeat prescription, he does not even have to go to the practice of a general practitioner.
Source: apotheke-adhoc.de