Manage Prescriptions Quickly, Easily and Safely

The tasks associated with writing and renewing prescriptions cause physicians to sacrifice time, money, and safety.

Here are the facts:

Time:

• The average physician writes 30 prescriptions a day and handles another 30 refill requests.
• Indecipherable or unclear prescriptions result in more than 150 million calls from pharmacists to physicians, asking for clarification.
• Communications between pharmacies and physician offices account for an estimated 20% of the workload of physician-office staff.

Expense:

• The typical pharmacy call-back costs physician practices $5–$7 to pull and review the chart and return the call.

Safety:

• Due largely to legibility problems, prescription orders must be confirmed at the pharmacy level in almost 40 percent of cases.
• Medication errors cause 1.5 million preventable injuries and death each year

These are just a few of the many reasons to implement online prescribing using the RelayHealth secure eScript®‚ service.
show that among physicians who e-prescribe:

The evidence is clear. Studies show that among physicians who e-prescribe:

• More than 80% say that it improves delivery of care
• Two-thirds say it helps improve their personal efficiency
• 45% immediately increase compliance with formulary guidelines
• In the Hospital setting, e-prescribing can reduce errors by 50% or more.
  

eScript —True Electronic Prescribing

eScript® is one of the healthcare industry’s leading e-prescribing solutions. It enables your practice to manage prescriptions electronically using computer-to-computer transmission between your office and the pharmacy thus substantially reducing phone calls and faxes to your office. That’ s true electronic prescribing. eScript manages both new prescriptions and renewals.

e-Script® Benefits

• Request or renew with online convenience
• Transmit prescriptions or renewal authorizations to virtually any pharmacy instantly
• Approve renewal requests with one-click
• Reduce staff time spent on phone calls and faxes to and from the pharmacy
• Enhance patient care by reducing potential errors due to misread prescriptions and similar medication names
• Improve patient safety through automatic interaction checking against Personal Health Record and improved legibility of prescriptions
• Display formulary information to reduce costs
• Educate patients with easy-to-understand online medication information