Swiss healthcare takes step towards digitalisation

On Thursday, the Swiss House of Representatives voted 128 to 62 in favour of a revision of the Therapeutic Products Act that would require digital prescriptions and medication plans. The goal is to improve patient safety. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The revision should enable the law to keep pace with developments in medicine to ensure patient safety. The prescribing, dispensing and use of medicines can give rise to misunderstandings and errors that put patients at risk. In future, prescriptions and medication plans will be provided in digital form. This will enable them to be read unambiguously and transmitted digitally. “Progress in digitalisation in this area will significantly improve patient safety,” said Patrick Hässig from the Liberal Green party. Translated from French by AI/jdp How we work We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then ...