- Improving patient safety and care
- Ineligibility from hand-written prescriptions
- Oral miscommunications
- Less phone calls between prescribers and dispensers
- Warning and alert systems
- Automatic checks for certain conditions
- Could connect to drug reference software
- Access to medical and medication history
- Supports alert systems
- Reducing time spent on phone calls and call-backs
- Questions, clarifications, and renewals
- Consumes 1/3 of the work day
- Reducing time spent faxing prescriptions to pharmacies
- Reduces labor, unreliability, and paper expenses
- Automatic renewal and authorization
- Efficient for both prescribers and pharmacies
- Increasing patient convenience and medication compliance
- 20% of paper-based prescriptions go unfiled by the patient due the hassle
- Automatic prescriptions reduces this
- Physicians can check if prescriptions were filled
- Improving formulary adherence permits lower drug substitutions
- Health insurance companies can be checked for generic substitutions
- More patient compliance
- Allowing grater prescriber mobility
- A mobile device can be used to write and authorize prescriptions anywhere
- Improving surveillance and recall ability
- Automated analytical queries and reports, such as drug recalls
A CLINICIAN’S GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING
