E-Prescribing:Top 5 Benefits For Small Practices

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E-Prescribing Top 5 Benefits For Small Practices

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Introduction

• Electronic prescribing allows health care
  providers and other medical professionals to
  securely transmit prescription information to
  pharmacies digitally.
• E-prescribing is growing rapidly, not just
  because the technology has improved, but because
  of the substantial benefits for patients and
  health care providers.

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1. Reduce Pharmacist Error

• Compared to hand-written prescriptions,
  e-prescriptions are extremely clear in terms of
  treatment and dosage and require less
  interpretation on the part of the pharmacist.
• This can reduce prescription and medication
  errors.
• It also can help ensure patients have the most
  accurate information possible about how a
  particular drug should be taken.

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2. Clinical Support For Providers

• E-prescribing gives health care providers full
  visibility into all of a patients documented
  allergies and previously prescribed drugs and
  will trigger clinical alerts if a newly
  prescribed drug has any potential for negative
  reactions.
• Alerts in the system will notify the prescriber
  of allergies, interactions with other drugs the
  patient is taking, duplicate therapy, as well as
  paediatric, pregnancy, and geriatric issues that
  would preclude a patient from taking a particular
  drug.

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3. Enhanced Security

• Electronic prescribing is significantly more
  secure than paper prescriptions.
• Paper prescriptions are subject to transcription
  errors and are targets for theft and tampering,
  making it relatively easy for drug-seeking
  patients to alter prescriptions by increasing
  dosage, quantity prescribed, or several refills
  of medications.
• E-prescriptions are also delivered directly to
  the pharmacy, without exposing the physicians
  DEA number to the patient.

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4. Improved Patient Safety

• E-prescribing is intended to replace writing out,
  faxing, or calling in prescriptions and the most
  significant advance is the improvement to the
  safety and quality of patient care.
• Avoidable errors associated with handwritten
  prescriptions can include a selection of an
  incorrect or unavailable drug or dosage,
  duplication of therapy, omission of information,
  and misinterpretation of the order due to
  illegible handwriting.

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5. Reduce Readmissions

• Every year, there are more than 1.6 million
  hospital re-admissions, and more than 13 percent
  of them are caused in part by adverse reactions
  to drugs.
• Of these, 95 percent were due to inappropriate
  prescription practices including failure to
  consider potential side effects and interactions.
• When integrated with EHR systems that provide
  access to information about a patient's allergies
  and drug history, e-prescription systems can
  reduce errors.

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Conclusion

• As the healthcare industry started progressing
  towards advanced technologies for simplifying
  administrative works, physicians should also need
  to consider utilizing the best EHR software with
  advanced e-prescribing features for better
  patient satisfaction and improved clinical
  workflow.

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• Vozo E-Prescribing allows you to electronically
  send an accurate and error-free, prescription
  directly to a pharmacy while ensuring 100
  safety.  

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