E-Priscription and its Challenges

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

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.

HIPAA and Healthcare

HIPAA- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act


Is a set of standard guidelines for Health Care providers to adapt to, requires providers to support standard services or transactions electronically to eventually reduce errors and costs.

Apart from services HIPAA is also a security act to provide the interests of the patients and their diagnosis information. Practices and groups need to sign the HIPAA contracts with vendors in question to ensure that this security law is enforced through the chain.

Some of the services or transactions that would generally be of interest to technology companies in particular the software development companies include patient plan eligibility verification, authorization tracking and management, claim submission, claim remittance and few other transactions. Read more

Best Patient Care: How to Imporve patient care?

Best Patient Care: How to Imporve patient care?

How to Imporve patient care?

Like it is always said "Charity begins at home", quality care can be best assured through good electronic documentation at the doctors office, this does not necessarily mean a Electronic Medical Record system but can take simple baby steps as simple as using microsoft office package to optimize your workflow or simple authorization tracking systems to ensure that patient authorizations are managed in time ..etc