Does electronic prescribing offer the patient advantages?
For patients, an important advantage of a prescription being
sent electronically is that the message is already formatted in
such a way that the pharmacy computer can assimilate the
information for rapid dispensing. You also have the comfort of
knowing that an accurate, legible prescription will arrive at the
pharmacy and that it won't get lost, misplaced, destroyed or
forgotten by the patient. Plus, patients can avoid making one trip
to the pharmacy to drop off a prescription and another to pick it
up.
