Gul Chablani, M.D., in practice for 18 years (Rockville, MD)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Internal medicine and pediatrics: 2 physicians, 5 full-time and 1 part-time clerical staff members
• Technology Provider & Solution: InstantDx, OnCallData
• Avg. Daily Rx Volume: 25-30 New Rx/doctor, 25-30 Refills/doctor
• Rx Time Savings: 3-4 hours/day to fulfill Rx refill requests reduced to 1 hour/day. Clarification requests from pharmacies reduced from 6-10/day to nearly zero.
• Quote: (Integrating electronic prescribing) was so easy it required essentially no formal training. It took only minutes to learn.

Lorenver Po, M.D., in practice for 10 years, and Kenneth Aquilino, M.D., in practice for 10 years (Holyoke, MA)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Internal Medicine
• Technology Provider & Solution: Zix PocketScript
• Avg. Daily Rx Volume: 50-100 New Rx/prescriber, 50-100 Refills/prescriber
• Rx Time Savings: Fulfillment of refill requests reduced from 15 minutes to less than 1 minute per.
• Quote: E-prescribing efficiencies allow our practice to see an additional 3-5 patients each day, without having to work longer hours.

Robert Resnik , M.D., in practice 18 years (Cary, NC)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Internal medicine
• Practice Size: 2 e-prescribers, 6 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: DrFirst Rcopia
• Rx Volume: 200 new Rx/week; 450-500 refill authorizations per week
• Rx Time Savings: Time spent managing refill requests reduced from 5-6 hours/day to 1 hour/day.
• Quote: In our last year alone, through a combination of reduced overhead costs and increased revenue (from being able to see more patients), we saved roughly $40,000, and we’re a medium-sized practice. For larger practices, the economic impact will be much more dramatic.

David Gorelick, M.D., in practice for 14 years, (Newport, RI)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Internal Medicine
• Practice Size: 40 total employees: 13 full-time prescribers, 27 support staff, (two separate multi-specialty office sites)
• Technology Provider & Solution: eClinicalWorks, eClinical Works EMR
• Avg. Daily Rx Volume:30-40 New Rx/prescriber, 20 refills/prescriber
• Rx Time Savings: Roughly 10 hours each week, by having reduced the prescription-related phone and fax burden on the staff
• Quote: The doctors and staff use the EMR and electronic prescribing nearly 100% of the time… it was well worth the investment

Jeffrey Kleiman , M.D. in practice 25 years (Brockton, MA)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Family practice
• Practice Size: 1 e-prescriber, 3 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: RxNT
• Rx Volume: 500 new Rx/week; 500 refill authorizations/week
• Rx Time Savings: Saving more than an hour a day on refill requests
• Quote: The electronic prescribing system offers many checks and balances — ranging from drop-down menus that verify spelling, dosage and drug formats, to automatic alerts for drug-drug and drug-allergy issues — to mitigate the majority of possible errors.

Peter Schock , M.D., Karen Carlson, FNP (Bellevue, WA)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Family practice
• Practice Size: 5 e-prescribers, 20 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: ChartConnect electronic medical record (EMR)
• Rx Volume: 200-300 new Rx/week; 500 refill authorizations/week
• Rx Time Savings: Eliminated 2 hours a day previously spent managing charges and paper prescriptions.
• Quote: Implementing an EMR system with e-prescribing capabilities was the smartest thing we ever did in terms of improving overall practice efficiency, medication safety and quality of care, and we’ve been saving a considerable amount of money, too.

Rebecca Andrews, M.D ., in practice for 2 years (New Britain, CT)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics
• Practice Size: 6 e-prescribers, 20 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: eClinicalWorks EMR
• Rx Volume: 125-150 new Rx/week; 100 refill authorizations/week
• Rx Time Savings: Eliminated 2 hours a day previously spent managing charges and paper prescriptions.
• Quote: Without a doubt, electronic prescribing is the best part of our EMR system.

Kenneth Adler, M.D ., in practice for 22 years (Tucson, AZ)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Family Medicine
• Practice Size: 4 e-prescribers, 12 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: Allscripts Touchworks EMR
• Rx Volume: 200–250 new Rx and refill requests/week per physician
• Rx Time Savings: Eliminated 2 hours a day previously spent managing charges and paper prescriptions.
• Quote: Anytime you can get rid of a manual process, you eliminate the possibility for human transcription errors — wrong name, wrong medication, wrong dosage, wrong number of refills. All these things can and do happen when you rely on the old-fashioned phone- and fax-based prescribing process.

Alan Warrington , M.D., in practice 18 years (Wilmington, DE)

• Safe-Rx Award honoree
• Specialty: Family Practice
• Practice Size: 1 e-prescriber, 9 total staff in practice
• Technology Provider & Solution: DrFirst Rcopia
• Rx Volume: 75 new Rx/week; 20-40 refill authorizations per week
• Quote: Before we implemented our e-prescribing system, it was maddening how much time we wasted trying to get through all of the menu-driven prompts at the pharmacy, faxing and re-faxing every time we got a busy signal, and being kept on hold. Today, most of these manual processes have been eliminated, thanks to the computer-to-computer communication that the system provides.

Connecticut Multispecialty Group (Hartford, CT)

• Practice Size: 92 prescribers 275 staff at 14 locations
• Technology Provider & Solution: Allscripts Touchworks EMR
• Quote: It's really unbelievable how much time it's saving you - you don't really realize it until you start thinking about how many hours you used to sit there with a pen in your hand, grinding through the process every day. Now I can just highlight seven or ten prescriptions on the patient's medication list, click and send, and I can do it while I'm still sitting there talking to my patient. It leaves much more time to focus on what's really important.