A man from Italy enters a pharmacy in Athens, Greece, to get some medication. Only, he has no prescription. Oh no!
Fortunately, he has an e-prescription. A what? An e-prescription, an online prescription saved under his name on a server in Italy somewhere.
The pharmacist, with the consent of his client, retrieves the prescription over the Internet via so-called national contact points that convert the Italian drug to its Greek equivalent, and all ends well.
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