August 2020
News
In this issue
| Activate ePrescribing in Fred Dispense |
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| Pharmacy cyber security checks vital in preparing for electronic prescriptions |
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| WEBINAR Dispensing ePrescriptions: Questions Answered |
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| Intercode substitution for Salbutamol Inhaler |
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| What's new in Fred Dispense? |
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| This Month's PBS Changes |
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Activate ePrescribing in Fred Dispense
We continue to support the deployment of ePrescriptions within Communities of Interest (COI). This will ensure thorough testing of the Token model initially and the expansion of the COIs prior to national deployment in the coming months. In the meantime we continue to develop the Active Script List model as ADHA finalise the requirements. The ASL will then be released and tested through the COIs.
If your pharmacy is part of a COI area or you need to dispense an ePrescription, please complete the steps to Activate ePrescribing in Fred Dispense.
Over the coming weeks an email containing the identification numbers required to complete activation will be sent to the email address your pharmacy registered for MedView Flow.
Once activated your pharmacy will be able to accept ePrescription tokens for dispensing. Please ensure all members of your team understand how to undertake their role in this process.
Refer to our Dispensing ePrescriptions webinar and demonstration videos to help you get started.
Pharmacy cyber security checks vital in preparing for electronic prescriptions
As you prepare for the introduction of electronic prescriptions it is essential to actively protect your pharmacy against cyber security risk.
With electronic prescriptions, your pharmacy will be working with larger amounts of digital data, and that data will be increasingly important to your business continuity. To prepare for this move, we urge you to pay attention to your pharmacy’s cyber security protection...Read more
Fred Protect was launched in March to provide pharmacies with cyber protection suited to the current environment of cyber risks that small and medium businesses face. It complements existing Anti Virus and backups, and can be used by all pharmacies, regardless of dispense or POS software.
WEBINAR Dispensing ePrescriptions: Questions Answered
During our Dispensing ePrescriptions Webinar in June, which was attended by over 2,000 customers, we received close to 500 questions about ePrescribing and our software solutions.
We have created an area on our website where we have consolidated many of the questions and provided detailed answers. This area will evolve as learnings continue to be identified through the rollout of ePrescriptions within the Communities of Interest.
Intercode substitution for Salbutamol Inhaler
In the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits for August 2020, the new item addition 12109H corresponding to salbutamol 100mcg/actuation inhalation, 200 actuations (Ventolin (with counter), Zempreon), is substitutable with item 8288F corresponding to salbutamol 100mcg/actuation inhalation, 200 actuations (Ventolin CFC-Free, Asmol CFC-Free)
As denoted in the Schedule for August 2020 :
Pharmaceutical benefits that have the form salbutamol 100 microgram/actuation inhalation, 200 actuations are equivalent for the purposes of substitution.
Due to the complexity introduced by the different Brand Price Premiums for the two different presentations of Ventolin, substitution between item codes 12109H and 8288F will not be available in Fred Dispense via the usual ‘GS’ shortcut. Instead, search for and select the brand required when dispensing under these PBS codes.
What's new in Fred Dispense?
MedView Flow COM Installer
If you didn't install the MedView Flow COM Component on some or all of your dispense terminals during the July 2020 Program Update, you will be prompted again during the August 2020 Program Update.
The component provides a "bridge" to enable communication between MedView Flow and Fred Dispense.
Make sure that you install this component on every terminal that is used for dispensing.
For more information, refer to MedView Flow COM Installer.
ePrescribing Indicator on Quick Scan Screen
The Quick Scan Screen (CTRL+Q) now displays an 'e' indicator for ePrescriptions. This makes it easier to distinguish between the scripts in the list that are electronic versus paper.
For more details, see Quick Script Scan.
This Month's PBS Changes
For the full Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, go to the PBS website at http://www.pbs.gov.au/ where you can search the schedule by drug name.
For your convenience, we've also uploaded a printable summary of this month's important PBS changes to this site:
Please note that the Government provides this information under embargo to Fred IT Group to enable next month’s PBS changes to be incorporated into your drug file. We have provided this information in this newsletter to prepare you for the changes, maximising patient availability/access and enabling you to adjust your stock accordingly. A condition of the embargo and in the interests of the quality use of medicines is that the information must not be released to the public or otherwise distributed prior to 1 August 2020.