Abstract
Currently the medication history management and guidance fee under the medical insurance system has been charged based on a paper-form medicine notebook. We conducted a questionnaire survey on pharmacies to reveal a variety of data contained in both of a paper-form medicine notebook and an electric-form one. Also we conducted another survey to explore patients attitudes toward a medicine notebook. Of 1,000 pharmacies, 547 pharmacies returned their responses. Though all of the responded pharmacies utilized a paper-form medicine notebook, only 15.9% of them utilized a electric-form medicine notebook with a paper-form one. Of 307 patients, 227 patients returned their responses. Only 0.5% of them utilized a electric-form medicine notebook. A variety of data really utilized in an electronic-form medicine notebook were less than that in a paper-form one. 20.9% of the responded patients answered that they wrote in a medicine notebook by themselves, about their blood pressure, a change of their health conditions, etc. Though almost half of them would like to show their own medicine notebook to any health professionals, the other half of them would like to show a medicine notebook only to the health professionals they would like to show. Therefore, in order to introduce an electronic medicine-notebook in the current medical insurance system, it is necessary for an electronic-form medicine notebook to restrict medical professionals reading of a medicine notebook depending on a patient’s decision, to cover the same variety of data covered in a paper-form one, etc.
