EU4Digital conducts cross-border ePrescription testing in Georgia

Healthcare providers and patients in Georgia could benefit from an improved flow of healthcare data, following new EU4Digital testing of a cross-border ePrescription service. 

This is the first pilot of EU4Digital eHealth services for Eastern partner countries, with Moldova also expected to test cross-border ePrescription in the coming months.

The ePrescription service allows prescriptions issued in a patient’s home country to be electronically accessible and valid at pharmacies in foreign countries. For anyone travelling or temporarily residing in another country, this reduces the effort of consulting an unknown physician, helps overcome language barriers, and reduces the risks of time wasting, inaccuracies and impacts on people’s health. For care providers, cross-border eHealth services such as ePrescription also increase efficiency and patient safety.

EU4Digital has been working with the Information Technology Agency (ITA), a subsidiary of the Ministry of IDPs from Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, to connect the national ePrescription system with an ‘OpenNCP’ server – a gateway for interoperable cross-border eHealth services. This is the first technical step in the new EU4Digital ePrescription pilot, which is part of EU4Digital’s eHealth thematic area of activities. Once the server is connected, the ITA team will test cross-border exchange of ePrescription data with an EU Member State’s eHealth services.

EU4Digital will follow up on the Georgian ePrescription cross-border pilot testing with a report. Potential next steps involve scaling up successful eHealth pilots and expanding collaboration among other Eastern partners and EU countries. Ukraine and Moldova are expected to take part in ePrescription pilots in the near future.

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