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..................Patients will be able to view and access scripts electronically if they choose to do so. Apps such as MedAdvisor and GuildLink currently provide consumer views of patient scripts and information held by eRx and MediSecure, however under the old system paper scripts are still required.MedAdvisor is ready to embrace the changes that will come with national e-prescribing.The company has already enabled digitisation of health for pharmacies in its network since 2013, explains MedAdvisor executive director and CEO Robert Read.“We have over 1.2 million patients who have ordered more than 25 million scripts through the MedAdvisor network, so patients of MedAdvisor have been experiencing some of the benefits of e-prescribing already in terms of digitisation of scripts—but paper had to follow those orders,” says Read.Typically pharmacies maintain these paper scripts on file, he says. Patients can currently request a script from their GP and, if that GP is connected to the MedAdvisor system, the script can be sent by mail and electronically to their preferred pharmacy through the platform..........................