With the aim of reducing the suffering of patients receiving High -cost drugs, (PEK) begins Tomorrow, Monday June 16ththe home distribution them, with the EOPYY be the first insurance agency to offer the service High Cost Drugs ‘Home’ to Europe.
Today more than 120,000 patients with serious diseases visit EOPYY pharmacies per month to obtain drugs high cost. Sometimes waiting in tails or traveling a long distance.
EOPYY’s new High -Cost Distribution Distribution is coming to facilitate the daily lives of these patients. The “home” Delivery Service was put into pilot last spring, serving patients suffering from specific diseases, and now enters the universal application phase, covering all patients who perform such recipes.
The “home” mission of drugs is about 139,000 patients visiting EOPYY pharmacies on a monthly or bi -monthly basis.
“72% of our fellow citizens are in Athens and Thessaloniki, and 41% of them have chronic diseases, which means that their daily lives are already burdened. In this way, not only do medicines reach the patient’s door but we improve his daily life, quality of life, reduce the hassle and help him to have the medication important in time to comply with his treatment. We take care of the patient, we strengthen the family and their carers, “EOPYY president told RES-EIA. Theano Karpodine.
He notes that there is no exception to any condition, “except for some of the drugs that are available through IFET and do not have a marketing permit in Europe, so they will not be available for” home “deliveries. And in this case, however, there is a provision and will be made on a special order in the name of the patient. “
What should the patient do to take his or her home medication
Each patient can now, if he wishes, without any burden, take his medicines, whether he is a cold chain (refrigerator) or not, at home, office, or even his cottage during the summer months, within 24 to 48 hours depending on the distance.
All it takes is to have an electronic recipe, intangible opinion and to have activated the “home” shipping service via the EOPYY platform (https://www.eopyy.gov.gr/).
Also, the “home” mission medicines that patients wish are able to take them home or authorize someone else to pick them up on their behalf.
The prescriptions are controlled and executed by pharmacists, while the drugs are trained by a certified company.
Step by step the process
The first way is to enter the EOPYY website (https://www.eopyy.gov.gr/) where they choose to receive high -cost medicines. What they need is to have their AMKA and their VAT.
Then step by step they certify their phone, mobile or fixed, their e-mail and especially the address and type the recipe number they want to receive “home”.
If one cannot get into the platform then they can call the EOPYY call center (2108110500) and the new call center, Call Center in 18181 and with the help of the organization’s people electronically by giving the VAT and AMKA to confirm. The data is automatically confirmed in the system and so with the help of employees they can make their request without having to access themselves.
The patient has the ability to trace and access in all phases of his recipe and will be a message. Once a request for a “home” delivery is submitted, this recipe number will not be executed at the pharmacy because its mission will be launched. Time is from 24-48 hours depending on the distance.
“Shipping high -cost ‘home’ drugs is an extremely complex process with too many variables and quite complex aspects of interoperability. With our people at EOPYY and our external partners we have tried, and we believe that we have managed, to create an extremely friendly, an easy -to -use request for patients to say they want to make use of our platform, “says Ms. Karpodini and concludes:
“In EOPYY we make it easier for those who are already giving their own daily struggle and constantly striving for a health system that stands next to the citizen.
For us at EOPYY, our patient is and will continue to be a priority.
As a modern and effective organization, we focus methodically, consistently and always on its optimal service. Every day, we defend the public interest, strengthen the patient, create social goodwill for the public health system. “
Source: Skai
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