E-Prescribing and its Advantages

One of the huge advancement in technology for the health care area that we are going to be part is the electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). This is created to simplified the way of prescribing medications to the patient. It is created make the job easy for both the patient and the health care professional.

Ursulla Pennel from EMR Consultant define e-prescribing as an electronic way to generate prescriptions through an automated data-entry process utilizing e-prescribing software and a transmission network which links to participating pharmacies. She also described it as the solution to improve patient safety and reduce sky-rocketing medication costs. It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medication errors. These errors are predominately due to hand-writing illegibility, wrong dosing, missed drug-drug or drug-allergy reactions. With approximately 3 billion prescriptions written annually, which constitutes one of the largest paper-based processes in the United States, the writing of prescriptions can be streamlined and efficient by using an e-prescribing system.

The use of e-prescribing has many advantages that should help the patient to have a more succesfull treatment and for the health care professional to have a easy way to access and monitor the treatment. Here are some of the advantages that e-prescribing brings:

-Improved patient safety and overall quality of care
-Reduces or eliminates phone calls and call-backs to pharmacies
-Eliminates faxes to pharmacies
-Streamlines the refill's requests and authorization processes
-Increases patient compliance
-Improves Formulary adherence
-Increases patient convenience
-Offers true Provider Mobility
-Improves reporting ability

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