ePharmacy - AMS

(The provision of pharmaceutical services for acute prescriptions)

The Acute Medication Service represents the provision of pharmaceutical care services for acute episodes of care and supports the dispensing of acute prescriptions and any associated counselling and advice.

Under the current arrangements, patients are prescribed items for acute symptoms when appropriate and receive a GP10 prescription form/s which they take to a pharmacy for dispensing. Under ePharmacy AMS, there is no significant change in the GP process, but upon printing the GP10, the GP system will also send an electronic prescribing message to the central ePharmacy message store and print a unique reference number (UPN) on the prescription in the form of a bar code.

The patient then takes the prescription to the pharmacy of their choice for dispensing. The pharmacy will scan the bar code which pulls down the electronic message and the pharmacist uses the message for dispensing purposes. The Pharmacy then sends an electronic message via the ePharmacy message store to Practitioner Services for payment processing. Initially they will also send the paper prescription.
eAMS will support AMS by providing electronic support at key points in the AMS process.  It will do this by utilising the ePharmacy infrastructure to allow electronic data (messages) to be made available between the participating systems to provide timely clinical, statistical and payment information.

eAMS Documents

eAMS Presentation for Champions
Issued 16th May 2007

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