Doctors criticize the electronic vaccination card, where they are obliged to register all vaccinations for patients from January this year. According to them, the system is complex and delays entering. According to the chairman of the Association of General Practitioners Petr Šonka, an amending proposal is being prepared in the Chamber of Deputies, which would postpone the obligation.
He said this at a seminar of the Association of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Industry (AIFP). Similarly, before its introduction, physicians criticized the system of electronic prescriptions, which, like electronic vaccination cards, are administered by the State Institute for Drug Control (SÚKL).
“From our point of view, too much data is collected. It then delays entering it,” said Šonka. The system is now linked to an electronic prescription and drug record. However, according to Šonka, doctors are more satisfied with the system in which they enter vaccinations against covid-19, which was created for the Ministry of Health by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics (ÚZIS).
According to Šonka, it would be more appropriate for him to take other vaccines as well. “There is a proposal in the Chamber of Deputies to move the electronic vaccination card to ISIN,” he said. ISIN is an abbreviation for Infectious Diseases Information System, where data around covid-19 are mainly concentrated. The director of IHIS Ladislav Dušek reminded that it would be possible to use the mobile application Tečka, where people have stored certificates of vaccination against coronavirus.
Hana Cabrnochová, vice-president of the Association of General Practitioners for Children and Adolescents (PLDD), stated that paediatricians still issue paper vaccination cards to children. Adults then receive additional paper cards for voluntary vaccinations. According to her, it would be appropriate for the electronic vaccination card to have other functions for physicians, for example, it would be possible to plan and order vaccines through the system.
Physicians are obliged to register applied vaccinations electronically from January this year; in the first half of the year, they are not sanctioned for non-use. According to Šonka and Cabrnochová, it is necessary to at least extend this sanction-free period. According to SÚKL estimates, there should be around four million records in the system per year. As in the drug record, all physicians can view it in their patients.
A similar debate was held five years ago over a mandatory electronic prescription. Some doctors protested against him, so the ministry introduced a transitional period during which it did not sanction them. Most doctors currently have it connected to their medical software. It has gradually expanded to include the so-called drug record, where the patient, each of his doctors or pharmacists can view a list of all prescription drugs. Doctors and the ministry agree that the ability to prescribe drugs remotely has been very successful during the coronavirus epidemic.
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