TasScript 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.

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.

Register for TasScript

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

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 

• TasScript for Prescribers 
• TasScript for Pharmacists

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]