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The Ministry of Health of the Nation, through resolution 3622/2022 published today in the Official Gazette, provided that photos of paper medical prescriptions sent by mail or WhatsApp to buy a medicine or request a prescription will no longer be valid. treatment. Meanwhile, the “PAMI does have a digital prescription because it validates the competence of the professional who signs and validates the signature,” they indicated from the health portfolio.
In this way, only physical prescriptions on paper or digital prescriptions with an electronic signature certified by the health authorities through an official computer system may be submitted.
the keys
Thus, the health portfolio listed the “keys” to the measure, implemented in resolution No. 3622/2022, published yesterday in the Official Gazette, which repeals Resolution 696 issued in 2020.
Salud clarified that “digital and/or electronic prescriptions (with electronic or digital signature) will continue to be accepted as up to now.” But not in photo images. The notice:
– What is the repeal due to?: Because the epidemiological and health situation is very different from that at the time the resolution repealing it was issued, according to Health.
During ASPO, the exceptional acceptance of physical prescription photos was taken with the aim of preventing people who needed medication from circulating, thereby reducing the transmission of the virus and the risk of contagion.
After the emergency, it is advisable to return to the previous mechanisms, which guarantee greater security, because they are less likely to be falsified and encourage responsible use of medicines, as agreed with the Ministers of Health from all over the country in the Federal Health Council, of October 4 of this year.
– The prescription of medicines must be carried out with all the corresponding security mechanisms: the prescriptions must ensure the identity of patients and doctors and the prescribed medicine must be authorized by the ANMAT, be identified by its generic name and be part of a validated therapeutic indication. scientifically, within the rational use of medicines.
In turn, the pharmacies carry out the corresponding controls for the dispensation, generating the records required by law and also complying with the traceability of the medicine delivered.
The exception mechanisms that are repealed with this resolution did not provide the necessary guarantees to comply with these precepts.
– In summary: after the ASPO, photos of medical prescriptions sent by mail or WhatsApp to buy a medicine or carry out a treatment are no longer accepted.
As before the pandemic, the digital and/or electronic prescriptions that are accepted are those that have an electronic or digital signature, as established by the Digital Prescription Law, which is in the implementation phase, and the Electronic Signature Law.
It is expected that, from the regulation of this law, the providers that have this service will be expanded and, therefore, the accessibility of the patients to the medicine will be simplified, concludes the information from the Ministry of Health.
“The previous procedure by which a patient could send a photo of the prescription violated a series of laws, such as the Pharmacy Law, the Professional Practice Law, among others,” said the Health official.
