E-Prescribing:Top 5 Benefits For Small Practices

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2. Introduction • Electronic prescribing allows health care providers and other medical professionals to securely transmit prescription information to pharmacies digitally. • E-prescribing is growing rapidly, not just because the technology has improved, but because of the substantial benefits for patients and health care providers.

3. 1. Reduce Pharmacist Error • Compared to hand-written prescriptions, e-prescriptions are extremely clear in terms of treatment and dosage and require less interpretation on the part of the pharmacist. • This can reduce prescription and medication errors. • It also can help ensure patients have the most accurate information possible about how a particular drug should be taken.

4. 2. Clinical Support For Providers • E-prescribing gives health care providers full visibility into all of a patient’s documented allergies and previously prescribed drugs and will trigger clinical alerts if a newly prescribed drug has any potential for negative reactions. • Alerts in the system will notify the prescriber of allergies, interactions with other drugs the patient is taking, duplicate therapy, as well as paediatric, pregnancy, and geriatric issues that would preclude a patient from taking a particular drug.

5. 3. Enhanced Security • Electronic prescribing is significantly more secure than paper prescriptions. • Paper prescriptions are subject to transcription errors and are targets for theft and tampering, making it relatively easy for drug-seeking patients to alter prescriptions by increasing dosage, quantity prescribed, or several refills of medications. • E-prescriptions are also delivered directly to the pharmacy, without exposing the physician’s DEA number to the patient.

6. 4. Improved Patient Safety • E-prescribing is intended to replace writing out, faxing, or calling in prescriptions and the most significant advance is the improvement to the safety and quality of patient care. • Avoidable errors associated with handwritten prescriptions can include a selection of an incorrect or unavailable drug or dosage, duplication of therapy, omission of information, and misinterpretation of the order due to illegible handwriting.

7. 5. Reduce Readmissions • Every year, there are more than 1.6 million hospital re-admissions, and more than 13 percent of them are caused in part by adverse reactions to drugs. • Of these, 95 percent were due to inappropriate prescription practices — including failure to consider potential side effects and interactions. • When integrated with EHRsystems that provide access to information about a patient's allergies and drug history, e-prescription systems can reduce errors.

8. Conclusion • As the healthcare industry started progressing towards advanced technologies for simplifying administrative works, physicians should also need to consider utilizing the best EHR software with advanced e-prescribing features for better patient satisfaction and improved clinical workflow.

9. VozoE-Prescribing allows you to electronically send an accurate and error-free, prescription directly to a pharmacy while ensuring 100% safety.  

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