E-prescribing or electronic prescribing is the use of online, computerized tools to create and sign prescriptions. Physicians are taking advantage of new e-prescribing software intended to replace written prescriptions with electronic prescriptions that are sent to pharmacies via computer networks or faxes.
E-prescribing is intended to bring safety and efficiency benefits to the prescribing process for patients and prescribers. Patients should be...
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E-prescribing or electronic prescribing is the use of online, computerized tools to create and sign prescriptions. Physicians are taking advantage of new e-prescribing software intended to replace written prescriptions with electronic prescriptions that are sent to pharmacies via computer networks or faxes.
E-prescribing is intended to bring safety and efficiency benefits to the prescribing process for patients and prescribers. Patients should benefit from the safety features of e-prescribing including the elimination of medication errors due to poor handwriting and automated drug safety checks provided by e-prescribing software. Physicians benefit from clinical decision support, integrated patient prescription insurance data and, especially, a dramatic decrease in calls from pharmacies requesting clarification of prescriptions.
E-prescribing gained momentum first in 2003 after being included in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and then again in July 2006 when the process was...
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