ZAVA helps enable first-ever SHI e-prescription processed in Germany

Harry Dolman

Partner

Adrian Schwarz

Principal

ZAVA helps enable first-ever SHI e-prescription processed in Germany

July 1, 2021

BERLIN, 1 July, 2021 – Millions of paper prescriptions are still printed in Germany every year. That is now changing: the first official digital prescription has been sent.

On Thursday, according to information from the Handelsblatt, a regular digital prescription for a patient was sent from a doctor to a pharmacy for the first time. A Dortmund-based internist issued an electronic prescription (e-prescription) for a patient from Berlin in a video consultation powered by Zava.

Read more about this historic milestone on Handelsblatt: https://www.handelsblatt.com/inside/digital_health/gesundheitswesen-erstes-digitales-rezept-in-deutschland-versendet/27383420.html?ticket=ST-1449912-flKBHMA0B3hb4fsQVIpf-ap1