How E-prescribing can Affect your Future

Patient’s safety is one of the main concerns nowadays, paperless offices and decreased spending standalone e prescribing should be considered as a stepping stone to an electronic medical record (EMR). Evaluating EMR ‘s and selecting the right one for your practice should be done slowly and carefully as well. In the meantime, standalone e prescribing can be implemented at a fraction of the cost with a minimal investment of time and disruption to your practice workflow, while reaping the three main benefits of an EMR. E prescribing medication history allergy and lists of problems and evidence based decision support tools offer physicians access to the most up to date and accurate information possible during the prescribing process, allowing providers to take advantage of the key benefits if an EMR at a substantially lower cost.

There are a few points that should be considered:

Easy to implement: e prescribing is an easy to implement technology and perfect for physicians first step towards becoming acclimated to personally interacting with technology during a clinical process. Increased chances of productivity and revenue, e-prescribing E-prescribing saves hours of phone time between office staff and pharmacies resulting in greater productivity and increased revenue for a fraction of the price of an EMR system.

Smooth Transition to EMR: Establishing how a practice will incorporate technology into theirexisting workflow is easier with a simpler piece of technology, such as E-prescription, when getting "buy in" from staff members. Establishing these processes will help ensure a smooth transition into a more complex EMR system in the future. Increased productivity and revenue, e prescribing saves long hours of phone time between office staff and pharmacies resulting in greater productivity and increased revenue for a fraction of the price of an EMR system.

The safety of your patients, E Prescribing is an opportunity to "wow" patients with advanced capabilities while demonstrating a physician's commitment to the latest patient safety measures.

 Pre-populate your Future EMR: Using an e prescribing system can make things work out for you easily and you don’t have to go through a lot of hassle. 

In the end, with the recent signing of the e prescribing bill aimed at promoting nationwide adoption of e- prescribing you can also significantly increase your incentive payments from Medicare.