There was some frustration for the pharmacy sector for some time towards the end when the funding model shifted to pharmacies being expected to cover the cost of the full program.
The way we view it is that electronic prescribing is not just a nice-to-have; it's core health system infrastructure. Today, our health care system really relies on faxes, which limits safety, efficiency and visibility across the system. As we think about pharmaceutical sovereignty, tools like e-prescribing are not just about convenience. They're foundational to the kind of data visibility and interoperability we need to manage drug supply, anticipate shortages and respond to disruptions in real time. We don't have that today.
Perhaps the tool was treated as an operational tool. There are other opportunities for us to be thinking about tools like this more as system infrastructure.