TranslateTasScript for health practitioners
TasScript is the Tasmanian implementation of the Australian Government’s real-time prescription monitoring (RTPM) system. It allows prescribers and pharmacists to access information about their patient’s prescription history for certain high-risk monitored medicines.
This information helps prescribers and pharmacists make better informed clinical decisions and reduces the incidence of harm, including death, from the use of high-risk monitored medicines.
TasScript replaces Australia’s first RTPM system, the Tasmanian DORA system.
Unlike DORA, TasScript is a mandatory use system. This means all prescribers and pharmacists must take all reasonable steps to check TasScript before issuing or dispensing a high-risk monitored medicine.
Clinical decision-making remains with the health practitioner
TasScript is a clinical decision support tool. It assists prescribers and pharmacists with identifying high-risk circumstances but does not prevent them from prescribing or dispensing a medicine they believe is clinically necessary. TasScript does not make clinical decisions for a prescriber or pharmacist.
Registration
If you prescribe or dispense monitored medicines, you must register for TasScript. This short TasScript registration video explains how to register and login for the first time.
TasScript uses your AHPRA registration details to identify you, so it is important that they are up-to-date. By default, TasScript uses the email address held by AHPRA. If other practitioners share this email address, you will need to enter a unique email address during registration.
Before you register, ensure that you have:
- Your AHPRA number; and
- A unique email address accessible only to you.
TasScript demonstration videos
Below are a few short videos highlighting key features of TasScript.
- Searching for patients and viewing their profile and history
- Viewing a patient’s Alert History and Access History
- Submitting and managing Authorities
TasScript helpful resources
Frequently asked questions and tips and tricks to help you get the most out of TasScript.
- TasScript for Patients, Carers and Families
- TasScript for Practice Managers
- TasScript for Prescribers and Pharmacists
- TasScript Getting Started Poster
- TasScript Alerts and Notifications Factsheet
- TasScript Authority Factsheet
National real-time prescription monitoring resources for clinicians are available for download from the Real-time prescription monitoring page on the website of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission).
- Real-time prescription monitoring - Fact sheet for prescribers and pharmacists
- Real-time prescription monitoring: Clinical risk management
- Real-time prescription monitoring: Conversation guide
- Poster - Real-time prescription monitoring
User Guide
The TasScript user guide can be found in the TasScript Help Portal.
Online Training
Free online training can be accessed via Health Learning Online
Access
From your clinical software
TasScript can be integrated with your clinical software. This enables pop-up notifications to appear within seconds of prescribing or dispensing a high-risk monitored medicine to inform you whether there are records in TasScript to review.
There are several steps practice managers, IT support teams, or health practitioners must take to connect their clinical software to TasScript:
- Be using fully integrated clinical software (i.e. connected to a Prescription Exchange Service (PES) and TasScript;
- Download the latest version of your clinical software on each computer; and
- Enable TasScript in the settings.
For support, contact your clinical software provider directly.
From the online TasScript health practitioner portal
If you do NOT use integrated clinical software, or you keep handwritten records, you will need to access TasScript through the TasScript Health Practitioner Portal before prescribing or dispensing a high-risk monitored medicine.
The portal is available on computer, mobile or tablet devices.
Creating a bookmark or shortcut to TasScript is recommended for easy access.
Exemptions from mandatory use
The legislation mandating the use of TasScript was specifically drafted to allow for exceptions from checking TasScript in some circumstances, including when treating patients located in medical institutions (hospitals and residential aged care facilities) and palliative care, end-of-life settings.
Even if an exemption exists, you are encouraged to access your patient’s history in TasScript to inform your clinical decision-making.
Support
For TasScript technical support, call FRED IT Group on 1800 776 633 or email [email protected]
For general enquiries regarding TasScript, call 03 6166 0400 or email [email protected]
