Cautious embrace of patient script histories
29th May 2012
By Guest Writer
From next month, GPs around the country will be able to check detailed information on the doses and types of drugs a patient has previously been prescribed, and even receive alerts if there is evidence of drug dependency.
The rollout follows a successful trial of the real-time software, DORA, in five practices in Tasmania, and it is already available to public hospital-based prescribers.
The Commonwealth will contribute $5 million to the scheme’s rollout, although state
