title: A snapshot of the electronic transmission and processing of prescriptions project in the Iranian Social Security Organization.
abstract: Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) is going to enable the sharing of health related information in a secure environment by means of reliable data in the right time to improve health of insured people throughout the country. There are around 7000 pharmacy throughout the country that ISSO contracted with them in order to deliver seamless services to 30 million insured people. The management of the huge amount of prescriptions based on a scientific basis with considering the financial issues of rising the cost of medicaments certainly needs a sophisticated business process re-engineering using ICT; the work that is going to be completed in the ISSO in next few months.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Department, Social Security Organization, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ramin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moghaddam
authors.forename: Hala
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Badredine
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services; D007492:Iran; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012943:Social Security