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E-Prescriptions Krishi

E-Prescriptions Overview • One major contributor to PAEs is patient medication errors, and the implementation of e-prescription systems can cut down on these mistakes. • Part of the problem with medication errors is the multiple steps needed to administer a drug in a traditional hospital setting.

Eprescription Overview • In the inpatient setting, a doctor writes the prescription order for the patient’s chart, a nurse transfers the order to the pharmacy, the pharmacy reviews it, sends it back, and the nurse finally administers the medication. Mistakes can be made at the many points of this process – handwriting can be illegible, drug allergies or drug interactions can be missed.

Eprescription Workflow

E-Presciption Overview • E-prescription systems allow healthcare providers to log prescription medication into a computer, which is then sent to a pharmacy, and administered. Many of the aforementioned points of error are eliminated, and doctors have better access to menus regarding dosing options, routes of administration, patient medical history, possible drug allergies, etc.

What is E-prescribing? • E-prescribing is a software program or application that allows prescribers to: • Electronically access patients health information such as drug benefits, medication history, etc. • Electronically transmit the prescription to the patient’s choice of pharmacy. • Receive electronically transmitted prescription renewal requests from a pharmacy when the patient’s refills run out. • Supports the medication management process – prescribe, transmit, dispense, administer, and monitor.

Workflow of the E-prescribing system: • • • Patient visits a physician. The physician’s e-prescribing system collects the patient’s consent and demographic information which includes patient name, date of birth, gender and zip code etc. The application connects to it’s network to uniquely identify the patient in a master patient index maintained by an e-prescribing network. All patients within the system is assigned with a unique identifier known as Master patient Index (MPI) and is being used to uniquely identify the patient with in a system. Request for patient information is sent to connected payers and pharmacies. The payer returns prescription benefit, medication history information etc to the physician’s e-prescribing system. The physician then validates the information with the patient. Physician reviews the patient’s eligibility and formulary information, if everything goes well the physician selects the appropriate medication therapy, selects the patient’s pharmacy, and generates the e-prescription. Note: The prescriber may modify the prescription depending on any drug-drug or drug-allergy alerts. The prescription is then sent electronically to the pharmacy system. Patients collects the prescription from the pharmacy of his/her choice

Benefits of E-prescribing • Saves time in the practice and pharmacy. • Reduce the potential adverse drug being prescribed. • Reduce drug costs through increased formulary compliance, use of generics and other low cost alternative medications. • Enable payers to communicate information to prescribers that may lead to improved quality, and better patient experience. • Enable payers to communicate information to patients that will more fully engage them in their care – condition and therapy education, medication adherence education, care reminders.