With the concept of E-prescription gaining a lot of interest among the providers and the vendor community I guess its time to look back and take a look at its feasibility.
The initial industry reaction has been that of a restrain, as there are lots of challenges that technology companies need to address these challenges to provide confidence to the providers about e-prescription.
With the manual e-prescriptions handed over to the patient, it makes it rather convenient for the providers to entrust the responsibility to the patient, while e-prescriptions require the provider’s office to fax or electronically send prescriptions to the pharmacies, the responsibility shifts to the provider’s office to evaluate the right technology and approach to ensure reliable e-prescription solution.
Some of the problems and issues with e-prescriptions tend to do with pharmacies not receiving prescriptions or having received but not being aware of it…etc
The initial industry reaction has been that of a restrain, as there are lots of challenges that technology companies need to address these challenges to provide confidence to the providers about e-prescription.
With the manual e-prescriptions handed over to the patient, it makes it rather convenient for the providers to entrust the responsibility to the patient, while e-prescriptions require the provider’s office to fax or electronically send prescriptions to the pharmacies, the responsibility shifts to the provider’s office to evaluate the right technology and approach to ensure reliable e-prescription solution.
Some of the problems and issues with e-prescriptions tend to do with pharmacies not receiving prescriptions or having received but not being aware of it…etc
Hence technology providers need to address this key issue of acknowledgement from the pharmacy on recipient of e-prescription acknowledging each drug that was prescribed, it dosage and availability.
It will help if there could be some initiative like HIPAA transactions (EDI standards) to come up with specifications that enable all pharmacies and vendors to integrate these capabilities.
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