Last week a GP wrote Australia’s first ever e-script: Here’s what doctors can expect
It's been decades in the making but the health system's long-awaited e-prescribing adventure has begun
Meet Dr David Corbet, who has just earned a very unique place in Australian healthcare history.
Last Tuesday, the GP from Anglesea, on Victoria’s Surf Coast, wrote the first ever legal electronic prescription which was successfully dispensed by a pharmacy.
OK, no moon-landing but in terms of the struggle involved in bringing 21st Century technology to bare on an act that occurs literally hundreds of millions of times a year, it is probably close.
“It was very simple,” Dr Corbet says of the first e-prescription (which was for an asthma medication).
