University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral School of Health Sciences, Doctoral Programme in Population Health, Helsinki, Finland.
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Clients and Services in Healthcare and Social Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Aug 22;316:1884-1888. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240800.
This research aimed to follow up a 14-year period (2010-2023) public and private healthcare service organizations' and community pharmacies' entries to and exits from the centralized, interoperable and shared electronic Prescription Services in Finland. Our material were the official Social Welfare and Healthcare Organization Registry and the official Pharmacy Registry; their data were extracted in January 2024. Outcomes were continuous registration of services or registered exist from the services. In addition, we used information from the Kanta Services for presenting monthly and annual number of electronic prescriptions and medicine dispensations on national level. In 2010-2023, totally 838 community pharmacies' and their subsidiary pharmacies' entries to and 24 exits from the nationwide Prescription Services took place, and in total 814 pharmacy outlets had the Prescription Services in production in 2023. Totally, 1980 public and private healthcare service organizations' entries to and 494 exits from the Prescription Service took place, and 1486 organizations had the Prescription Services in production in 2023. Healthcare service organizations recorded totally 303.8 million electronic prescriptions into the Prescription Services. Recorded numbers were lower during the Covid-19 epidemic in Finland in 2020-2021. We also observed seasonal effects in the time series. Pharmacies recorded totally 660.4 million medicine dispensations (purchases) into the Prescription Services with an increasing trend year after year. We also observed seasonal effects in the dispensation time series.
本研究旨在追踪芬兰集中式、互操作和共享电子处方服务的公共和私人医疗保健服务组织以及社区药房在 2010 年至 2023 年期间的进入和退出情况。我们的材料是官方的社会福利和医疗保健组织登记处和官方药房登记处；他们的数据是在 2024 年 1 月提取的。结果是服务的连续注册或已注册的存在。此外，我们还使用了 Kanta Services 的信息，以呈现全国范围内每月和每年的电子处方和药品配药数量。在 2010 年至 2023 年期间，共有 838 家社区药房及其附属药房进入和 24 家退出全国范围内的处方服务，共有 814 家药店在 2023 年提供处方服务。共有 1980 家公共和私人医疗保健服务组织进入和 494 家退出处方服务，共有 1486 家组织在 2023 年提供处方服务。医疗保健服务组织总共向处方服务系统记录了 3.038 亿张电子处方。在芬兰的 2020-2021 年新冠疫情期间，记录的数字较低。我们还观察到时间序列中的季节性效应。药房总共向处方服务系统记录了 6.604 亿次药品配药（购买），呈逐年上升趋势。我们还观察到配药时间序列中的季节性效应。
