{"id":202302,"date":"2025-09-05T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202302\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:35:21","slug":"swiss-government-backs-mandatory-e-prescriptions-for-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202302\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss government backs mandatory e-prescriptions for medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a10ceb6fa41ab13a604d14207b0a0f1e4e0887f3-89940869.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Federal Council wants mandatory electronic prescriptions for medicines\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Federal Council wants mandatory electronic prescriptions for medicines            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        The federal government wants doctors to issue prescriptions for medicines electronically in the future. A revision of the Therapeutic Products Act should help to avoid misunderstandings when prescribing and taking medicines.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        September 3, 2025 &#8211; 14:54\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its meeting on Wednesday, the government adopted the proposal from parliament. The new regulation will reduce the risk of errors when dispensing medication, it wrote in a press release. The e-prescription would also help to reduce counterfeiting and the misuse of multiple prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The bill largely corresponds to the proposals that the government submitted for consultation at the end of 2023. Among other things, patients will now receive an electronic medication plan. It contains a list of the medicines to be taken and information on their use.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/362362751_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"medicine shelf\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Medicine access\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss pharmacies brace for shake-up as deregulation looms    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Dec 9, 2024                    <\/p>\n<p>                Local pharmacies in many parts of the world are disappearing but Switzerland has so far escaped unscathed. Why?            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/medicine-access\/swiss-pharmacies-brace-for-a-shake-up-as-deregulation-looms\/88437010\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss pharmacies brace for shake-up as deregulation looms<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The government also wants to oblige hospitals to use electronic systems to calculate medication dosages. According to the draft, it would also be authorised to extend the obligation to other outpatient areas.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, according to the government, clear regulation of advanced therapy medicinal products should ensure that the population has rapid access to innovative forms of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Translate from German by DeepL\/jdp<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. 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The number of unemployed rose by almost 3,000 (+2.3%) month-on-month to 132,105.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/workplace\/swiss-unemployment-rate-rises-in-august\/89949956?utm_source=multiple&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=news_en&amp;utm_content=o&amp;utm_term=wpblock_news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss unemployment rate up slightly in August<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal Council wants mandatory electronic prescriptions for medicines Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[347,90732,111781,111780,210,105,1060,80,111782,51464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-beat-health-systems","10":"tag-beat-medicine-access","11":"tag-beat-patient-safety","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","17":"tag-sda-ready-to-publish","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151721440278399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}