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Apr 20
COVID-19 emergency: increasingly dematerialized prescriptions
In order to reduce the spread of Covid-19, on March 19 the Head of the Civil Protection Department adopted an ordinance (“Ocdpc 651/2020” or “Ordinance“) allowing a citizen to receive from his/her physician an electronic prescription number (numero di ricetta elettronica – “NRE“), which is necessary to get a prescription drug from a pharmacy, without going to the doctor’s office.
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Feb 19
The European Commission issues a recommendation on a European electronic health record exchange format
On February 6, 2019, the European Commission issued a Recommendation concerning the development of a European Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange format (Recommendation no 243/2019), which can be found on the following website: https://bit.ly/2X2qhAq.
EMA has launched a public consultation on key principles for the electronic product information of EU medicines
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Dec 17
Product information: EMA starts digitization
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) gives the go-ahead for digitization in terms of product information.
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Dec 17
EUCJ’s ruling on the classification of software as medical devices
According to a very recent ruling of the European Court of Justice (EUCJ), (C-329/16, Snitem v. Syndicat national de l’industrie des technologies médicales, published on 7 December 2017), software with at least one function that makes it possible to use patient-specific data for the purposes, inter alia, of detecting contraindications, drug interactions and excessive doses, is, in respect of that function, a medical device, even if that software does not act directly in or on the human body.
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Nov 17
Digital health revolution, how medicine is changing
When you hear about digital health, it’s sometimes hard to understand what it is really about.
