Today, it seems unthinkable not to have a record of what we did in the different areas of our lives, a trace that allows us to trace it in a few minutes.
If we enter the home banking We will be able to understand where those pesos we no longer have went; if we forget an address, we can surely find it again by going to Google Maps or WhatsApp.
If we forget what we had agreed with a friend or a client, we just have to look it up in the chat and the doubt is over. And so on with everything. Surely there were many of us who one day, after having spent all day working with digital documentsWe were surprised to realize that the traditional paper book did not give us the chance to automatically look up a word.
In the digital age, everything seems to be at hand, but What happens if we lose a medicine that was prescribed to us and after a while we want to buy it again?
If the recipe was made on paper, we will find that it is not so easy to trace it. In times when everything leaves a digital trace, it is strange that in the health field we cannot do so.
Slow digital transformation
This topic leads us to a broader one: the trend, still incipient, of health to enter into digital transformationThe reality is that the advantages are too great for the path to be so slow.
In the case of digital prescriptions, for example, the benefits include greater accessibility, reduced errors due to misinterpretation of the doctor’s handwriting, a more efficient tracking system for prescription management, and better coordination between health professionals, pharmacies and patients.
Added to this is the time saved by the patient by not having to go and get the prescription, the environmental factor of avoiding the felling of trees and less travel, among other aspects that also apply to other digital tools that have been replacing their paper counterparts.
Beyond the above advantages, or perhaps above them, is traceability. That is, what we mentioned before: being able to trace exactly all the medicines we have taken in recent years. Knowing what we take, how often, and for what.
Importance of prescription history
The importance of keeping track of all prescription history allows patients to have a better idea of what they are taking and why. Perhaps, at times, they may even question the very fact of why they are taking it and propose an alternative or solution to it.
In addition, this tool for tracking prescription history allows doctors to access it and, in this way, avoid endless errors regarding medication prescriptions or even medications that may have contradictory effects with each other. It also happens many times that people, out of habit, continue taking a medication without being aware of how long they have been taking it and continue adding medications to their habits without realizing that perhaps two of them have the same effect or cancel each other out, and they could stop taking one of them or even stop taking that medication because they no longer need it.
In addition, it is also important to have a history of study orders that allows us to know when we had the last study of any kind related to our health and, in this way, have more control over what happens to us.
Decree and necessity: electronic prescriptions throughout the country
He Decree 345/2024through which the national government announced that the implementation of electronic prescriptions will be mandatory throughout the country as of July 1, is, from our point of view, going in the right direction. It is true that everything that has to do with electronics requires some help for some people, especially the elderly, but the final benefit is undoubtedly much greater than the effort to adapt.
Going back to the beginning, it is not just about prescriptions, it is everything that affects our health that can be optimized with this correct digitalization. Knowing which doctor we went to and when, what test we had done, what medicine we took… a complete health history, which in digital form can be at your fingertips.
Perhaps, when all this information is there, we won’t have to rely on our ability to remember to know what we had taken or in which drawer the X-ray we took years ago is stored. And we can, as happens today with addresses, photos or conversations with friends, track all this in moments and not leave it to the reliability of our memory.
Medical surgeon, founder of DCTOR.
Source: Ambito
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