Millions of patients were affected by the hacking suffered by pharmacies. Know the way to acquire your medications without inconvenience
By iProfessional
17/05/2023 – 12,33hs
The president of the Argentine Pharmaceutical Confederation, Ricardo Pesenti, confirmed this Wednesday that the problem “continues” for digitally validate drug prescriptions with coverage of prepaid and social worksafter the hack suffered by the company that manages the system.
According to the company that manages the online validation system for medical prescriptions, Farmalink Bizland, the problem would be solved during this day, but the computer problem remains and the Argentine Pharmaceutical Confederation did not receive “a new notification” about the status of the situation.
“The situation affected the operation of its communications network, for which there is an impossibility for online validation of Health consumption,” the company reported. And they added that “the attack could not overcome the containment barriers for this type of intrusions that the company has, but it did impact the communication servers, which is why the validation from Pharmacies and Health providers is being affected. “.
Pharmacy Hack
On the problem, Ricardo Pesenti detailed through a statement: “Pharmacies we are suffering a process of not being able to authorize of provincial social works, the IOMA, the Provincial Social Work of Mendoza and Córdoba, plus prepaid such as Swiss Medical, Galeno, Medifé, Omint, among others”.
To respond to the situation, he requested “provisionally dispense manually” in pharmacies, that is, without validating the prescription.
Users need to pay for the remedy and then request a refund
In cases where funders ask patients to pay for the drugthen the amount will be refunded.
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With the exception of OSDE and PAMI, members of the IOMA Planes Especiales have the usual discount. This means that they will be validated in the same way.
Those who are part of Galen will have to pay the full price of the medication and request the reimbursement in the pharmacy corresponding to the plan (whether or not it contemplates reimbursement modality in the coverage). Swiss Medical promotes the same modality: take a photo of the prescription and the purchase receipt and then send them to the web.
In the case of authorized medicines, only those authorizations printed according to a specific format that must be uploaded in the “Manual dispensation declaration” section of the IMED system will be valid for providers.
