E-Prescription in Telangana Hospitals soon

VIJAYAWADA: Clearing the confusion of doctors handwriting in prescription letters, the Telangana State Medical and Health Department has now announced its plan to digitize the process of prescription writing by introducing e-prescriptions.

With this, all the government district and area hospitals in the State will have the computerized system to make a prescription. This decision comes after the state doctors were failed to follow the Medical Council of India's (MCI) directive of legible prescription writing guidelines. While financially quite ambitious, the state government has indeed shown its strong inclination towards digitisation of hospitals. Indian Express reports that all the government district and area hospitals in the State would be transformed into computerized digital prescriptions.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Medical Council of India had issued guidelines directing the doctors to write the prescription in clear and bold letter.

"Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs" 

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Telangana was one of the few states, that took the enforcement of the MCI dictum quite seriously, even warning the state-run hospitals under certification by National Accreditation Board Hospitals, that they need to ensure that the doctor's prescription is written in capital letters at hospitals.

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