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Maintaining the Pharmacy Model: The Catalan Electronic Prescription Infrastructure

Joan Rodon Modol  1
Margunn Aanestad  1 , Miria Grisot  1 , Ole Hanseth  1 , Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou  1
, editors.
In: Information Infrastructures within European Health Care: Working with the Installed Base [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2017. Chapter 5.
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Maintaining the Pharmacy Model: The Catalan Electronic Prescription Infrastructure

Joan Rodon Modol.
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This chapter presents the genesis and evolution of the public e-prescription information infrastructure (EPI) of Catalonia, Spain from 2000 to 2013. The implementation of the EPI required a transition from a mainly paper-based and asynchronous prescription model to a digital and synchronous one. This transition involved doing changes into the practices, systems and roles of the Catalan Health Service, doctors and health providers, pharmacists and Colleges of Pharmacists, and ultimately patients. Our narrative extols those changes and how the pre-existing technological and institutional resources of professionals shaped the design, and evolution of the infrastructure. Our narrative traces those events from the perspective of pharmacists, and shows how the exploitation and expansion of the installed base of pharmacists helped maintain the existing pharmacy model.

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