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Traditionally Christmas and the New Year period sees an uptick in phishing emails, particularly shopping and shipping scams. Phishing emails account for close to 90% of all successful cyber attacks we see in pharmacies. Often this results in a ransomware attack where your data and/or PCs are encrypted, and a ransom demanded to unlock your valuable data. Such an interruption at this time of the year would be disastrous.

Fred IT Group has been awarded the contract to deliver the next phase of the national electronic prescription delivery service for the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

With the addition of MedAdvisor, Scrypt Ventures and Fluger, 2600 Australian community pharmacies have an easy-to-use and searchable resource for finding trusted software apps and integrations from fourteen software partners.

The recent Optus data breach has thrust cyber security back into the national spotlight, with the impact devasting for both Optus and their customers. Even a few weeks on it is far from over, and the consequences are likely to see Australian laws surrounding a data breach strengthened and fines increased.

Yet whilst the scale of this breach was unprecedented, it was only one amongst many, with breaches since involving MyDeal (Woolworths), Medibank and Costa Group. Further the NAB have reported receiving over 50 million attacks each month!

Fred IT Group, working with a consortium led by Leidos Australia, will deliver the pharmacy solution for the Australian Defence Force’s new digital health system.

The new eHealth system will unify patient and clinical information across healthcare settings and stages of care in the ADF community. For the first time, ADF clinicians in primary care, pharmacy, dental, emergency and hospital care will have visibility of real-time patient information and care notes.

If you missed APP2022 be sure to watch this session exploring how your pharmacy can connect with the rapidly growing digital pharmacy consumers.

This session outlines strategies to enable you to keep your existing customers close, to gain new customers and to provide services and advice on top of a digital experience.

Fred have launched new web-based hub – called Fred Marketplace – to allow pharmacies to quickly identify and source partner software approved and tested for use with Fred software.

Australia’s first digital script list has been vital in helping the rural New South Wales community of Forbes continue to provide potentially life-saving medication to dozens of patients cut off by flood waters throughout November and December.