April 2022
News
In this issue
| Get Started with Real Time Prescription Monitoring |
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| Cyber Security Awareness |
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| This Month's PBS Changes |
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Get Started with Real Time Prescription Monitoring
When your health department advises you that Real Time Prescription Monitoring is available in your jurisdiction, here are the steps that you need to follow.
Step 1: Register
When you receive your invitation email, click the link to register.
Step 2: Activate
Once the registration process is complete, activate Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) in Fred Dispense.
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Select Setup > eHealth Configuration > RTPM Configuration.
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Select the Activate Real Time Prescription Monitoring checkbox.
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Click Save.
Step 3: Dispense
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When you dispense certain medicines—for example, S8 medicines—you may be prompted to enter the patient's Date of Birth. If the selected patient’s date of birth is already recorded, you will not be prompted. See Providing Date of Birth when Dispensing S8 Drugs for details.
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You will see a notification when you navigate to the Pharmacist initials field. See RTPM notifications when dispensing.
For more information, refer to Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) and Fred Dispense.
Cyber Security Awareness
With the escalation of tensions and conflict in Europe we wish to highlight the following alert from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) published 24 February 2022, recommending that organisations urgently adopt an enhanced cyber security stance.
ACSC recommendations for organisations
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Review and enhance detection, mitigation, and response measures.
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Assess preparedness to respond to any cyber security incident.
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Review incident response and business continuity plans.
While the ACSC is not aware of any current or specific threats to Australian organisations, we are alerting you to the actions outlined in the ACSC's alert. Should you need to contact the ACSC, you can do so directly via 1300 CYBER1 or via this link .
At Fred IT Group we maintain rigorous standards to help ensure our solutions are safe, secure and high quality.
In addition to our security capability, we leverage the knowledge, security and reach of our partners at Telstra Health and Microsoft to detect and manage security risks. Fred will be operating in an enhanced cyber security stance and will communicate changes to services if they become necessary.
For a timely refresher on pharmacy cyber security risks please review the following checklist via this link fred.to/cybercheck
If you are impacted by a cyber incident, please contact us immediately on 1300 731 888.
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.
For Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) items (CAR and non-CAR), please refer to the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits as well as Services Australia to confirm whether the PBS item code for a HSD is eligible to be dispensed and claimed by your pharmacy type.