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Specifications and Policies
IPU eHealth & Information Policy
The document expresses our members’ views on eHealth with specific focus on patient safety and unequivocal
identification of medicinal products, the need for ePrescribing, and how pharmacy systems are a prime source for
up-to-date medication records.
IPU eHealth + Information Policy (V3)
IPU ePrescribing Specification for Primary Care
The IPU has been advocating for a national ePrescribing system for a number of years, the reason for producing this Specification is to align our efforts with the guidance, recommendations and standards produced by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) and to support, and progress, the work of the HSE and eHealth Ireland. We published this Specification in October 2018.
IPU ePrescribing Specification for Primary Care – October 2018
IPU Dispensary System Specification
There is a legal requirement to have computer software independently validated and certified. Regulation of Retail Pharmacy Business Regulations, SI 488, 2008, Section 12.2 states, inter alia, “Where the records referred in paragraph (1) (a) are retained in electronic format, the computer software in use for the retention of such records shall have been independently validated and certified as being suitable for the retention of such records, having regard to the purpose of such controls under the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 540 of 2003). Such certification shall appropriately show the version of the software to which the certificate relates and the date on which it was last updated.” To help meet the requirement we produced and published this Specification in October 2018.