Prescription of drugs by doctors electronically is being considered as a necessary need. This is because it is estimated that it eases the burden of patients, the work of pharmacists and doctors themselves. The same ones tell KosovaPress that the digitization of the medical prescription would reduce the possibility of patients being given the wrong therapy, as a result of poor handwriting.
The deputy director of the Main Centers of Family Medicine (KKMF) in Prishtina, Bujar Gashi, said that the insufficient functioning of the Health Information System is causing constant difficulties, including the stagnation of the process of digitizing the medical prescription.He added that it has been more than six months since the printer was withdrawn from the relevant company in all HCMCs in Pristina, thus making it impossible for doctors to prescribe therapies electronically.
The pharmacist in charge of one of the pharmacies in the capital, Arbnor Alidema, says that the digitization of the medical prescription is necessary, who tells KosovaPress that they are often forced to call the doctor who prescribed the therapy to ask him about it, because he does not can understand writing.
The chairman of the Association for Patients' Rights, Besim Kodra, thinks the same way, as he says that writing medical prescriptions in the classic way harms patients. According to him, not always what is written by the doctors, is given by the pharmacists, as a result of the incomprehensible writing by the latter.
Meanwhile, the citizens say that the writing of the medical prescription electronically should have been done since time immemorial. According to them, this would affect the minimization of drug confusion, as a result of bad handwriting.
Haki Kasumi also believes that the classical way of writing by doctors should be changed, for which he says that this would reduce possible mistakes.