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Digital with a Prescription: How Opta Data is Shaping the Future of Remedy Supply
It is often the small processes that hold up everyday life in medical practices: the trip to the printer, filling out a form, sending mail to the health insurance company. In the provision of therapeutic products - for example in physiotherapy practices, speech therapy centers, or with occupational therapists - these processes add up to real time wasters. A new association now aims to help digitize such processes. With the electronic prescription (ePrescription), the step into the digital age should succeed.
The founding members of the "Association for Digital Standards in the Therapeutic Products Field" (VdSH e. V. i.G.) include the opta data group from Essen. The company is no stranger to the industry. For over 50 years, it has been offering digital solutions and billing services for service providers in the healthcare sector. Now it is bringing its expertise into the new association.
Digitization in the Rhythm of the Industry
"We have been actively shaping the digital transformation in the healthcare sector for over five decades," says Dr. Jan Helmig, CEO of the opta data Group.
The digitization of therapeutic supplies is a complex undertaking – not least because many stakeholders with very different technical prerequisites are involved. The new association, according to Helmig, aims to establish a common language. Or more precisely: uniform standards on which all parties can rely.
The focal point of the association's work is the ePrescription – the electronic version of the previous paper prescription. It is intended not only to reduce documentation effort but also to ensure greater safety and efficiency. In the future, prescriptions should be created, transmitted, and processed digitally – from the doctor's office to service provision and billing with health insurance companies.
Telematics and Everyday Practice
To make this work, it requires not only good software but also stable interfaces. The telematics infrastructure, or TI for short, forms the digital backbone. It connects players in the healthcare sector, secures sensitive data, and enables new applications like the e-prescription. However, so far, TI is more of a theory than practice in many therapeutic practices.
This is where the VdSH comes in. It sees itself as the industry's representative – towards politics, towards gematik, the responsible federal society for digital health applications, and towards the insurers. The goal is to fully digitize processes while remaining open to various IT and billing standards.
Setting Standards Together
The list of founding members reads like a who's who of billing and software service providers in the therapeutic sector: Besides opta data, NOVENTI, Optica, and thevea are also included. They, too, have gathered experience with large digitization projects in the past – for example, with the introduction of the e-prescription in pharmacies.
"The introduction of the e-prescription is a milestone for the industry – but it can only succeed if all parties pull together," says Helmig.
This sounds like a willingness to cooperate, but also a demand for clear political support. Because without legal frameworks and support programs, digitization will stall halfway.
Ambition and Everyday Life
The opta data group brings more than just technology: It knows the economic constraints of small therapeutic practices, which often work with limited resources. This is precisely why opta data doesn't want to build isolated solutions but rather develop practical applications that fit into the everyday life of practices.
Whether this succeeds remains to be seen. Expectations are high, and the pressure to digitize is growing – not least due to the shortage of skilled workers, increasing documentation requirements, and the growing number of patients.
A digital prescription alone will not solve these challenges. But it could be the beginning of a more modern, efficient healthcare provision. And to some extent, it could also relieve those who work on it daily.
Background: What is an e-prescription?
The electronic prescription replaces the previous paper form for remedies like physiotherapy or speech therapy. Physicians issue the prescription digitally, transmit it via the telematics infrastructure to the service providers, who can then process it digitally and forward it for billing. The goal is a continuous digital process chain.
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