An Active Script List (ASL) allows a patient to manage their active electronic prescriptions without a token, paper, or electronic prescription. A clinician who is permitted to dispense medicines under state regulations can prescribe and upload prescriptions to a patient’s ASL.
With ASL when a patient visits a doctor, the patient’s prescription is uploaded to a prescription exchange service, instead of issuing a script or token to the patient. The patient then identifies themselves at the pharmacy and is dispensed the medication.
Dependencies
ASL communicates through multiple governmental services, that maintain privacy and accountability during the dispensing process. Your pharmacy must have access to the following services to access and dispense ASL Scripts.
- eRx – ASL communicates through the eRx PDS, so your system must have a valid eRx certificate and be enabled for eScript Integration. If this has not yet been activated for your pharmacy, please contact eRX to begin the activation process.
- IHI – A patient must have a validated, with an Active/Verified status, Individual Health Identifier (IHI) to be able to register and actively use ASL and other eHealth related services.
- A patient’s ASL profile contains a list of their valid and available electronic prescriptions, including repeats, which live in eRX’s secure online repository. A major benefit of having an ASL means patients cannot lose their tokens because they are stored securely online in the PDS’s online repository, where the pharmacies can access them at any time with the patient’s permission.
- HPI-I – Pharmacists are required to login to Corum Clear Dispense to be able to dispense ASL scripts. Pharmacists are also required to add their HPI-I to their Staff details in CCD to be able to access ASL.
- If the pharmacist knows their AHPRA User ID, which is used to log into the AHPRA website, simply add 800361 as a prefix to the ID. That is their HPI-I (not to be confused with the AHPRA PHA registration number).
- NASH Certificate & HPI-O – To activate ASL, your pharmacy will require an active NASH SHA-2 certificate. The pharmacy will need to download a NASH SHA-2 certificate for their organisation(s) from HPOS on PRODA. Once loaded correctly, this will populate the HPI-O field under Pharmacy Settings.
The NASH certificate is required to activate the Health Identifier service and ASL services. Once generated, the certificate and its password should be stored securely and ready for activation.
Make sure to then record the correct ABN number under Pharmacy Settings. That is an important part of the HPI-O validation to continue.
NOTE
To maintain Patient privacy, pharmacists are required to login to Corum Clear Dispense to dispense ASL scripts. Password authentication is enabled using Pharmacy Settings.
To access the ASL service Pharmacies are required to have a valid ABN number and HPI-O number. To obtain an HPI-O number your pharmacy must be registered with Provider Digital Access (PRODA).
Upload to ASL
When you dispense an ASL script, you can choose to automatically upload the dispensed details to ASL. This is important when generating repeat authorisation of a script. For more information see Generate Repeat Authorisation,
To enable uploading to ASL:
From the Script menu choose Upload to ASL.
