Benefits of E-Prescribing
Not only is e-prescribing rapidly growing, but the technology that powers it is on the move as well. And with a variety of benefits – both for providers and patients – it’s natural to assume that this growth will continue well into the future.
While there are many benefits of e-prescribing, these are among the most powerful:
1. Less Risk of Prescription Drug Errors
Handwriting prescriptions is risky for many reasons, including the fact that errors and illegibility are much more common. But with e-prescribing software, this is never a concern.
Doctors and pharmacists never have to contend with concerns regarding inaccuracy, which benefits them and the patient. Add this to the ability to access a patient’s prescription history, and you have something that moves the needle in the right direction.
2. Faster and More Efficient
Depending on your age, you may remember the days of faxing prescriptions to the pharmacy or dropping them off in person. With e-prescribing, those days are gone forever (for the most part).
This results in faster and more efficient filling of prescriptions, which is a big benefit to the patient.
3. Easier to Track
With handwritten prescriptions, there is no efficient and effective way to track whether it was actually filed. Subsequently, patients forget to fill prescriptions, lose it, or even decide against it because they begin to feel better.
E-prescribing gives doctors a way to track the prescription, thus verifying if the patient had it filled.
4. Time Savings
It takes a lot of time for doctors and their staff to respond to and fulfill refill requests. E-prescribing fights against this, with the ability to transmit 20 or more authorizations within a matter of seconds.
So, what took hours in the past can now be completed in a handful of seconds or minutes. Talk about fast!
5. Easier to Verify Insurance
Through e-prescribing, it’s easier for providers to prescribe medications covered by insurance. This cuts back on the number of patients who don’t take a medication prescribed to them, while also saving them money.
With each passing year, e-prescribing seems to reach new heights. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next 12 months!
What is iPrescribe?
iPrescribe gives doctors, and prescribers, what they need when they need it – access to in-workflow PDMP, medication history lookup, state drug monitoring systems, EPCS for prescribing controlled substances and more. Available for iPhone and Android mobile devices.