Electronic prescriptions and how they are used

Australian Digital Health Agency

Friday, 21 November, 2025

Marvin Ong Sutto, Pharmacist, East Metropolitan Health Service, discusses the benefits of electronic prescriptions, how they work and how they are being used throughout the East Metropolitan Health Service.

People across Australia are embracing the technology, and as at August 2025, more than 399 million electronic prescriptions have been issued by doctors and nurse practitioners since the program launched in May 2020, with uptake continuing to grow.

You can learn more about electronic prescriptions and the sustainable advantages of other digital health tools in an article by Peter O’Halloran, Chief Digital Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency — published in Hospital + Healthcare. To read the story, click here.

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