Pharmaceuticals
Outpatient pharmaceuticals, including over-the-counter drugs, can only be sold to patients by pharmacies. Providers can only deliver drugs that are actually administered within their facilities. Health centers can give outpatient drugs to patients when local pharmacies are closed, but only in the dosage needed to cover the time until the pharmacy reopens. Finland limits medicine sales to about 800 licensed pharmacies.
Electronic prescribing used widely by Finnish health care setting. ePrescribing is used in about a half of the pharmacies and pharmacies are expected to prescribe electronically during 2012.
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