Simple Retail working in conjunction with its parent company MediSecure and Scrypt, the digital clinical relationship management system provider, will from May 31 be able to provide its retail pharmacies and clients with a new electronic active script list (ASL) management system that could make lost or misplaced email or SMS prescription tokens obsolete. They are demonstrating this capability at APP 2021 until Sunday May 23, 2021.
Simple Retail on May 20 received its conformance confirmation for the Australian Digital Health Agency requirement for use of Active Scrypt List enabled software as a result of its integration with Scrypt Lite. This will enable Simple Retail pharmacies to access MySL, the active script list system jointly owned and developed by MediSecure through its Medication Knowledge joint venture with FRED IT.
As a result, Simple Retail pharmacies will be able to assist patients to register for an ASL, assist patients in approving the pharmacy to access their existing ASL, allow pharmacists to view a patient’s ASL, and enable prescriptions to be downloaded straight into the Simple Retail dispensing queue.
MediSecure and Simple Retail CEO Paul Frosdick said he was “delighted to be able to announce both our ASL conformance approval and the fact that it has been achieved through the partnership with Scrypt.
“We embarked on the joint development of MySL because we understood, as successful as prescription tokens had proved to be, a single source of truth for all active prescriptions for those patients on multiple medications was going to be incredibly important.
“Moving prescription management into the digital age and then falling at the last hurdle because many elderly and chronic disease sufferers couldn’t manage multiple tokens through multiple SMSs or emails would be such a wasted opportunity,” Mr Frosdick said.
“And we embarked on our partnership with Scrypt because we recognised that to support our clients migrate into the digital age, we needed to be honest with ourselves about where our core skills lay and where we needed to partner to add the capabilities where we were less strong. Scrypt is a digital-first business backed by one of Australia’s leading digital development houses, and we couldn’t be more excited to see this first phase of Simple Retail’s twelve to eighteen-month digital transformation come to fruition”.
In addition to the link to MySL, the integration of Scrypt into Simple Retail immediately upgrades the functionality available to Simple Retail clients to include Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) integration, prescription workflow and dispensary task management, and digital patient communications from a dedicated SMS number and email address.
Founder and director of Scrypt Lloyd Smith said “It’s been great working with Paul Frosdick and his team as their digital transformation partner. Achieving ASL Conformance is fantastic news for both companies. We congratulate Simple Retail as our first ASL partner and look forward to rolling out to the broader pharmacy network throughout the year.”
It is expected that the use of active script lists (ASL) will eventually become far more widespread with access available through software used by most GPs and community pharmacy as well as third party applications like Scrypt that support patients and pharmacists to work together to more effectively manage medications.
The principal benefit of an ASL is that it eliminates the need to store and handle multiple ePrescription tokens a patient might receive through SMS or email. This single point of reference will help avoid confusion, facilitate the supply of the right medication, at the right time, and ultimately help achieve the outcomes intended when a medicine is prescribed.
For Further Information Contact Paul Frosdick on 0400 766 566 and by email at [email protected] Or Lloyd Smith at 0411 445 366 and by email at [email protected]