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Table 2.

Comparison of Security and Privacy Features Across the Systems

System	Surescripts	PrescritbeIT	United Kingdom	Sweden	Denmark	Spain	Australia	Japan
Pharmacy ID	✓	—	✓	×	×	—	✓	×
Prescriber ID	✓	—	✓	✓	✓	—	✓	×
Medication ID	✓	—	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Prescription ID	×	✓	✓	×	×	✓	✓	✓
Patient ID	Master index	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Patient ID verification	—	—	—	—	—	Health card	—	×
Participate consent	×	×	Choosing pharmacy	×	×	—	✓	×
Using HL7^a	✓	—	✓	×^b	×^c	—	✓	×

^{^a}

HL7 is communication protocol to transfer the medical information from ehealth service system to another. HL7 is used to encode the information to be readable to all the ehealth service systems (Bender and Sartipi, 2013; HL7, 2019; Saripalle et al., 2019).

^{^b}

Sweden eHealth systems uses a service-oriented communication endpoint for the technical protocol, They use ENV 13607 standard (Doupi et al., 2010; Mäkinen et al., 2011; Sellberg and Eltes, 2017).

^{^c}

Denmark e-Prescription uses the MedCom communication standard nationwide. MedCom was established in 1994 to develop the communication standards for transferring the medical records and information between health centers nationwide (Krag et al., 2012; Öhlund et al., 2012).

HL7, Health Level Seven International.