HSCI 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 9: Generic Drug, Prescription Drug, Electronic Prescribing
24 Jan 2018
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The strategy was part of the 2004 first ministers" 10-year plan to strengthen health care, intended to: Develop options for catastrophic (financially, not medically) drug coverage to ensure that canadians don"t face undue financial hardship to pay for prescription medications they need, regardless of where they live. Catastrophic drug coverage - lift the burden of devastating drug cost from individual canadians. Find ways to reduce the costs of prescription medications to governments and individual canadians. Improve patient safety by helping health care professionals provide the most appropriate and safest prescriptions for their patients, and by implementing electronic prescribing to reduce medication errors. [not only good for their health; it helps to prevent the costs associated with unnecessary visits to ed and hospitalizations if not proper (not right for particular patient, wrong dose, interact badly with other drugs/treatment)] Improve the way medications are monitored after they are released onto the canadian market to protect patients from unanticipated side effects.
