The NHIA uses a prescription warning function on the NHI MediCloud to ensure medication safety. In October 2021, five reminders of high-risk medicines were added to stop duplicate medications prescribing from different healthcare providers. 
MediCloud will timely give out a warning if duplicate medications with the same pharmacological mechanism and the same dosage form are prescribed. This standard is more precise than “same ingredient and same dosage form.” About up to 37,000 patients the new function could be applied to. 

     The five types of high-risk medicines include antihypertensive drugs, hypolipidemic agents, hypoglycemic drugs, antithrombotic and prostate enlargement medicine. This new function could prevent patients from low blood pressure, liver damage, rhabdomyolysis, low blood sugar or hemorrhage because of duplicate medications.

     Patients may ask doctors go to MediCloud to check their prescription records while visiting. Patients can also download the NHI APP and use the dependent management function for the prescriptions of their parents and their children. They can further remind doctors of these records, working together to safeguard their family’s health.

Date: January 18, 2022