The administration of the Kursk region has decided to launch an electronic recipe platform in the Kursk region. It is expected that by the beginning of 2022 it will be possible to prescribe digital prescriptions in all public clinics in the region. The project will be launched on the Electronic Prescription platform from Medicata, and Rostelecom will become the operator of the project in the Kursk region.

The implementation of the Electronic Prescription project in the Kursk Region will take less than two months. It is planned that by the second quarter of 2022, electronic prescriptions will be issued in all medical institutions and accepted in 40% of pharmacies in the Kursk region; already now, the technical ability to accept prescriptions is provided in 172 pharmacies in the region.
The developer of the technology is the Medicata company, which created the first electronic prescription platform in Russia. More than 300 public and private clinics throughout Russia, including Moscow, Belgorod and the Moscow region, have already connected to the platform. The tender for the implementation of the project in the Kursk Region was won by the Russian provider of digital services and services Rostelecom.
Thanks to the introduction of an electronic prescription system, users will be able to track medical appointments and treatment regimen in a special application or through the State Services portal. The platform will also allow you to check in advance the availability of the necessary drugs in pharmacies and purchase drugs using a QR code and SNILS.
The project in the Kursk region will provide doctors with access to all prescribed prescriptions, including those prescribed by other specialists, in order to assess the safety of drug therapy. Using the platform, healthcare providers will be able to track the history of a patient's treatment and create prescriptions for drug therapy in a structured format by selecting the necessary drugs from the built-in drug reference book. Electronic recipe creation will take 30% less time than manual recipe creation. The main objectives of the project are to increase the efficiency of interaction between doctors, pharmacies and pharmacists, increase the share of remote interactions and the availability of drug supply. The widespread use of electronic prescriptions is also expected to control prescriptions and the sale of prescription drugs.
“The introduction of this system will simplify the procedure for prescribing drug therapy, which is especially important in a pandemic. We will be able to establish high-quality analytics. In our institutions, the platform is installed free of charge, specialists will integrate the program into the existing information systems to which our doctors are accustomed. At the same time, the opportunity to receive a paper version of the recipe will remain, ”said Deputy Governor of the Kursk Region Andrei Belostotsky.
Medicata was the first in Russia to introduce electronic prescriptions. Since 2019, we have been integrating with the largest federal IIAs, thanks to which we can offer a seamless technological solution to 55 regions of Russia. We believe in the development of digital services for prescribing drugs, so we are already developing technologies for remote prescription and drug therapy management, testing services for the delivery of prescription drugs ”- comments Boris Gorodetsky, CEO of the developer of the Electronic Prescription platform
Since October 2018, a national project "Health" has been operating in Russia, according to which, by 2023, electronic prescriptions will be introduced in all regions of Russia. Medicata plans to become one of the largest suppliers of electronic prescription technology in the Russian Federation. To this end, the company developed a proposal for validating prescriptions for e-commerce, integrated with the largest Russian MISs and pharmacy software. Most of the largest pharmacy chains in Russia are already connected to the platform: Rigla, Planet Health, April, 36.6, Pharmacy traditions and others.
"Today, many processes familiar to society and business go online. Rostelecom is interested in developing services that can be used in various spheres of life of our citizens. Electronic prescription is one of such products. It is designed to simplify the work of doctors and increase remote interaction. between a doctor, a patient and a pharmacist. I am sure that the introduction of this platform in the region will be another important step towards digitalization of the Kursk region. " - comments Evgeny Varyvdin, acting Director of the Kursk branch of PJSC Rostelecom
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Medicata is a developer of IT solutions for medicine and pharmaceuticals. Among them: the "Electronic Prescription" platform for the creation, management and analytics of structured electronic prescriptions for drugs and medical devices, which unites the patient, doctor and pharmacist into a single data exchange ecosystem, as well as the "Prescription Screening" service for instant analysis of the compatibility of prescribed drugs , allowing to halve the number of medical errors.
Currently, Medicata is implementing the Electronic Prescription platform in 34 regions of the Russian Federation, thanks to the completion of the integration of the electronic prescription platform with the largest medical information systems in healthcare.