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Canada Health Infoway is working with Health Canada, the provinces and territories, and industry stakeholders to operate and maintain PrescribeIT^®, a national e-prescribing service. PrescribeIT^® enables prescribers to electronically transmit a prescription directly from an electronic medical record to the pharmacy management system of a patient’s pharmacy of choice.

What will PrescribeIT^® do?

PrescribeIT^® is a national e-prescribing service that provides safer and more efficient medication management by connecting community-based prescribers (such as physicians and nurse practitioners) to community retail pharmacies, enabling the digital transmission of prescriptions.

PrescribeIT^® serves patients, pharmacies and prescribers, and:

• Ensures patient choice of pharmacy
• Safeguards patient health data from commercial use
• Maintains an influence-free prescribing and dispensing environment
• Continues to be accountable to Canadians through their federal, provincial and territorial governments

Features

PrescribeIT^® enables prescribers and pharmacists to electronically create, receive, renew and cancel prescriptions. The service also provides:

• Secure clinician messaging
• Prescription status notifications
• Integration with public drug formularies*
• Standardized terminology through the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set
• Enhanced user identity proofing with multi-factor authentication
• Reduced potential for fraud and abuse, especially for narcotics and other controlled substances

Please download the PrescribeIT^® Backgrounder for more information.

*in jurisdictions where it is available.