Follow guidelines for sending orders for prescriptions and refills electronically , by telephone, fax, or email

Send orders for prescriptions and refills; legal requirements for content and transmission of prescriptions

How can order or prescriptions be done

written, electronic, or verbal

Most prescriptions are created

electronically

EHR

Electronic health record

Ambulatory care setting allow prescriptions to be ordered and transmitted to a …

pharamacy selected by the patient

E-prescibing applications streamline coommunitcations between …

pharmacies and prescribiers

what does the e-prescribing tool do?

automatically send presciption to the pharmacy via a fax sever or through secure electronic transmisson of prescriptions

What can pharmacies use e-prescibing system for

have capability to request refills electronically or pose routine questions to provider through e-prescribiing system rather than through a phone call to the provider

Why is this process more efficient?

because refill requests can be queued up and reviewed at providers convince. Which they can review those requests anywhere using a hand-held device (PDA) or remote computer

Preparation of prescription is carried out on a

computer typically in an EHR and then printed on paper

What is an advantage for printed-paper copy

eliminated issues caused by poor penmanship and the EHR software can perform a number of edits to reduce occurance of clinical errors

Software can also check prescription against…

a list of known allergies and a list of patients other medications for contraindications

Once rx is printed and manually signed it is still counted a s a

written paper prescription

What does the patient need to do so order gets filled

to deliver the prescription to pharmacy

A written order on a prescription form or computer-generated paper prescription may be…

scanned and transmitted via email or fax