How about a new application that will supplement paper prescriptions — boosting patients’ convenience by allowing them manage prescriptions in their mobile gadgets. The app, called “M-prescription,’ offered by SK Telecom, provides such useful services as ▲Prescription History, ▲Real-time Access to Medication Information & Medication Guide, ▲Medication Reminder, ▲Search Nearby Hospital/Clinics & Navigation Service and ▲General Medicine Information.

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[Seoul = Whowired] 23 February 2012 – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced that it will launch M-prescription, a mobile application that will supplement paper prescriptions, on February 24.

M-prescription is expected to significantly improve patients’ convenience by allowing them to store/manage prescriptions in their smartphones and access detailed information on the prescribed medicine including effects, side-effects, dosage and frequency of administration. M-prescription also will help hospitals and pharmacies provide better service and care for patients.

Main features of M-prescription include ▲Prescription History, ▲Real-time Access to Medication Information & Medication Guide, ▲Medication Reminder, ▲Search Nearby Hospital/Clinics & Navigation Service and ▲General Medicine Information.

M-prescription can be downloaded from T Store, Android Market and App Store free of charge. Patients can store prescriptions in their smartphones by entering the Electronic Prescription Number, which is an identification number printed on the paper prescription, into the application. Then patients can fill their prescriptions by visiting a nearby pharmacy and simply presenting the Electronic Prescription Number to the pharmacist.

Currently, M-prescription can be used in 19,000 (or 65% of) hospitals and clinics, and 5,000 (or 24% of) pharmacies nationwide. Looking forward, the tangible benefits of the application are expected to rapidly drive up the numbers, covering 23,000 (or 79% of) hospitals and clinics, and 14,000 (or 71% of) pharmacies by the end of 2012. The company is also targeting more than 100,000 individual application users by the year-end.

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