With the busiest week of the pharmacy year – and single busiest day, Christmas Eve – racing towards us, it is important to stay alert to the risks of cybercrime. The health sector remains Australia's biggest target of cybercrime, and 90% of cyber-attacks start with a phishing email.
The life-saving role of clinical tools in reducing risk for vulnerable Australians was acknowledged last week with Victoria’s SafeScript real-time prescription monitoring winning a national award for innovation and excellence.
It’s a topic that has been on the radar for some time and the evolution of ePrescriptions is now upon us. It all started with the electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) and it is only a matter of time before the paper script becomes redundant… but there is a little while to go before that is a reality.
Fred IT Group is pleased to announce that it has been appointed by the Department of Health to lead the new national system for real-time prescription monitoring which is designed to reduce the devastating impact of prescription medicine overdoses.
Fred IT Group has been named by the Australian Digital Health Agency to lead a new medicines safety project to explore the impact of digital health records in improving patient medication safety.
Fred IT Group and the Australian Medicines Handbook have partnered to provide users of Fred’s cloud based solution Fred NXT with direct access to medicines information whilst dispensing.
Fred IT Group has been appointed by the Victorian Department of Human Services to develop a real-time prescription monitoring system, called SafeScript, to help prevent prescription medication misuse and to save lives.
AusDI and Fred IT Group have today announced an expanded partnership, delivering pharmacies access to drug information via Fred’s cloud-based solution, Fred NXT.
MIMS Australia and Fred IT Group announce a collaboration to improve the dispensing workflow, from August 1 2017.
Sigma Pharmaceuticals today announced Australia’s largest pharmacy IT partnership with the Fred IT Group to deliver Sigma’s next generation retail platform that will support over 700 pharmacies across Australia.