SafeScript wins national Australian Information Industry Association award
The life-saving role of clinical tools in reducing risk for vulnerable Australians was acknowledged last week with Victoria’s SafeScript real-time prescription monitoring winning a national award for innovation and excellence.
The Fred IT Group congratulates the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services for winning the Australian
Information Industry Association iAward in the category of Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year for SafeScript.
Fred worked with the Department to develop SafeScript and roll it out across Victoria. The first clinicians started using SafeScript during patient consultations in October 2018. Since then, clinicians have received clinical risk alerts relating to more than 57,000 Victorians.
According to Paul Naismith, pharmacist and CEO of Fred,
“As pharmacists, we continue to see the devastating toll that occurs in the community as a result of the misuse of prescription medications. Tragically, with last week’s release of the Australian Overdose Report*, we know that the number of deaths occurring through accidental overdose continues to grow.”