SafeScript: Victoria’s real-time prescription monitoring system

SafeScript uses existing prescription exchange services to collect prescribing and dispensing data about psychoactive medicines subject to misuse or high-risk use. The introduction of SafeScript was accompanied by extensive support measures to encourage and support an effective professional response for patients recognised to be at risk of harm from their use of these medicines. Use is mandatory, and SafeScript is integrated into the professional's workflow. Alerts about several high-risk situations (high opioid daily dose, high-risk medicine combinations, supply by multiple providers) are automatically generated and provided to the professional user at the time of their SafeScript use.