Plantago is a system designed for online prescription and dispensing, i.e. for paperless prescription and dispensing of medicines or medical devices. It is built upon a new architecture using modern technologies for high availability 24/7 - 99%, sufficient performance and online healthcare controls. It integrates the health insurance company into the Information System of Health Care Providers (SK) and the National Centre for Health Information (SK, hereinafter NCZI) on the basis of an integration manual from NCZI.
Key Functionality
Online prescription and dispensing (paperless prescription and dispensing of medicines and medical devices) using a barcode or the insured's identifier
Online prescription control and dispensation
Integration into NCZI and verification of electronic signatures
Integration into the Aesculap expert system, which checks the interrelationships between drugs and alerts physicians about the potential risks when prescribing drugs
Integration into the insurance system of the health insurance company in order to provide data on electronic prescription and dispensation
Providing services for verification of the insured person, outpatient department or physician’s employment
Key Benefits
Possibility of prescriptions without the insured person’s visiting the outpatient clinic – a key feature, not only during the COVID-19 crisis
Provision of electronic drug card services
Improving the quality of reporting and minimizing errors through the introduction of online checks
Fraud prevention – online checks before the actual prescription and dispensation
Providing pharmacies with information about the entries of dispensations and the status of invoices for pharmacy healthcare (SK)
