Why is e-prescribing important?
E-prescribing represents an unprecedented opportunity to reduce
healthcare costs and improve the safety and efficiency of a process
relied upon by millions of patients every day. More specifically,
e-prescribing benefits physicians, pharmacists, payers and they
patients they serve in a number of ways:
Benefits to physicians
- Displays economic alternatives for patients
- Eliminates errors from poor handwriting or faxing
- Reduces pharmacy callbacks
- More convenient for patients
- Less time spent on renewals
- Opportunity to improve patient adherence
Benefits to pharmacies
- More prescriptions arrive "clean", less rework
- Allows more time with patients
- Reduces opportunity for errors
- Preserves patient choice of pharmacy
- More convenient for patients
- Opportunity to improve patient adherence
Benefits to payers
- Improves quality of care
- Drives down healthcare costs
- Saves beneficiaries money
- Reduces medication errors
For more information about how this is happening throughout the
U.S. today, click
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