Pharmacies spend hours each day logging new prescriptions, and phoning and faxing physician offices to obtain authorizations for renewal requests or clarification on new prescriptions. E-Prescribing connectivity to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™ dramatically minimizes this time-consuming work by allowing a direct exchange of information between the computer at pharmacies and computers at physician practices.
Streamline the Prescribing Process
If your pharmacy is using pharmacy management software that is certified to connect to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange (more than 95% of pharmacies in the U.S. use certified systems), you will be able to receive and acknowledge a new prescription from a physician, send a request for renewals, receive the approval or denial response from the physician, and request and receive changes from a physician using your pharmacy computer instead of your phone or fax. Acquiring the e-prescribing functionality is simple. All you need to do is contact your software vendor and request a connection to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, operated by SureScripts.
Regain Control of Your Business and Reduce Expenses!
With the potential to automate more than 500 million renewal requests per year, electronic prescribing through the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange will allow your pharmacy to reduce the hours spent each day logging in written prescriptions, resolving prescription issues and requesting renewal authorizations and will allow you to devote more time to patient care and your business.
Enabling your e-prescribing connection to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange can bring a new level of efficiency and competitiveness to your pharmacy. Consider the following: • Recent preliminary research showed that the number of prescriptions filled at pharmacies increased 11 percent once physicians began actively using electronic prescribing, suggesting a relationship between the use of e-prescribing and the longstanding issue of prescription leakage (i.e., new prescriptions that never make it to pharmacies). The research also suggested that electronic prescriptions are picked up by patients at a rate equal to or greater rate than that of non-electronic prescriptions.1 • Comprehensive studies show pharmacy labor cost savings from e-prescriptions to be $1.07 for every new prescription and $0.41 for every renewed prescription managed electronically.2 Click here to learn more about the potential ROI that e-prescribing holds for your pharmacy.
Protect the interests of pharmacists and patients
SureScripts believes that healthcare decisions should be made by healthcare professionals. As a neutral channel, SureScripts ensures that patients can have their prescription filled at the pharmacy of their choice.
Improve safety
Connectivity to the majority of the nation's chain and independent community pharmacies allows electronic prescription orders and renewal authorization requests to be transmitted using existing National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT 8.1 standards. This elevates prescription accuracy to a new level by reducing errors attributed to handwritten, fax and telephone transmitted prescriptions, helping to prevent misunderstandings based on illegible handwriting and medications with similar sounding names.
Improve customer satisfaction and care
Patients will have confidence knowing that their prescription information is being communicated directly between their physician’s computer and the computer at the pharmacy of their choice in a quick, accurate, legible and secure format. Additionally, patients will benefit from the convenience of shorter waits, and fewer return trips to pick up medication.
Access the largest prescribing network in the nation!
SureScripts has certified the software of pharmacies and pharmacy technology vendors representing 95% of U.S. retail pharmacies for connection to its network . In addition, over 50,000 prescribers are actively e-prescribing via the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, and more are connectiving every day. More than 35 million e-prescription transactions were sent over the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange in 2007.
1 Research conducted by SureScripts and Walgreens using prescriber data from IMS Health, 2007
2 Michael Rupp, 2005. “e-Prescribing: The Value Proposition.” America’s Pharmacist. Figures updated August 2007. |