Prescription Routing Services
Surescripts Prescription Routing service allows prescribers to manage the transmission of prescription information using one or more of the following message types:
- New Rx (retail pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route new prescriptions to community pharmacies.
- Rx Renewal (retail pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route prescription renewal requests and responses between prescribers and community pharmacies.
- New Rx (mail-order pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route new prescriptions to mail-order pharmacies.
- Rx Renewal (mail-order pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route prescription renewal requests and responses between pharmacies and mail-order pharmacies.
By eliminating paper, phone and fax, electronic Prescription Routing makes getting patients the medications they need a safer and more efficient process. Prescription Routing replaces old, error-prone approaches to sending new prescriptions - e.g. handwritten prescriptions, computer-printed prescriptions and hand or computer-faxed prescriptions -, with the secure computer-to-computer exchange of prescriptions between prescribers and pharmacies.
Routing new prescriptions electronically reduces the risk of medication errors associated with poor handwriting, illegible faxes and manual data entry. A study from the Center for Information Technology Leadership estimates that electronic prescribing, with clinical decision support, has the potential to reduce preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) by more than 60% over traditional paper based prescription writing.
Using Prescription Routing to process prescription renewals saves health care professionals time and money by dramatically reducing the number of phone calls and faxes typically associated with the prescription renewal authorization process. MGMA studies have estimated that the value of the time spent just on prescription renewal authorizations phone calls costs physicians $10,000 a year per physician. With electronic prescription renewals, prescribers can receive electronic authorization requests directly and securely to practice computers as an alternative to time consuming phone calls and faxes. Physicians or authorized staff can then return approvals or denials with a few mouse clicks at their convenience, in seconds, which could translate into more time with patients for physicians and more efficient use of staff.
Prescribers, click here to find software that has been certified by Surescripts for Prescription Routing.
Software vendors, click here to learn more about Surescripts certification.
