The big news this week was the moves underway to put electronic prescriptions on the same legal footing as paper scripts, with the Department of Health announcing its plans for the required regulatory changes and the Australian Digital Health Agency releasing some draft documents laying out the proposed solution architecture.

The department is insistent that ePrescriptions will be available this year, with a so-called “success statement” included in its documentation stating that “by October 2019 the electronic prescribing project will allow an electronic prescription to progress from prescribe through to dispense and claim in an electronic format”.